Hello,
I'd like to know if other customers or indeed traders have had issues with other traders that were recommended to them by friends or colleagues.
I am at the last few stages of refurbishing my home and in the last 12 months I have had several trades in.
All but one were sources on yellow pages or forums such as this one. The only one I got through reccomendation was a spark and that was a bad choice. He did not finish the job, some of the bits he did were not right and I had to chase for certificate. I should have seen some warning signs which I chose to ignore when he quoted thinking that as this person was reccomended I was being too anxious, but i wish i had trusted my gut feeling.
Other trades I got just by ads or forums were tiler, plumber and plasterer. These were great and did a very good job.
Maybe I am the odd one out but in the future I'll stay away from reccommendations and just trust my gut feeling.
I was wondering if anyone had bad storied about a reccomendationg one wrong.
I've seen a lot of advice given to follow a reccomendation but is this really the best way to source a good tradesman?
Over to you
I'd like to know if other customers or indeed traders have had issues with other traders that were recommended to them by friends or colleagues.
I am at the last few stages of refurbishing my home and in the last 12 months I have had several trades in.
All but one were sources on yellow pages or forums such as this one. The only one I got through reccomendation was a spark and that was a bad choice. He did not finish the job, some of the bits he did were not right and I had to chase for certificate. I should have seen some warning signs which I chose to ignore when he quoted thinking that as this person was reccomended I was being too anxious, but i wish i had trusted my gut feeling.
Other trades I got just by ads or forums were tiler, plumber and plasterer. These were great and did a very good job.
Maybe I am the odd one out but in the future I'll stay away from reccommendations and just trust my gut feeling.
I was wondering if anyone had bad storied about a reccomendationg one wrong.
I've seen a lot of advice given to follow a reccomendation but is this really the best way to source a good tradesman?
Over to you
