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  1. PatriciaMarchand

    Essex Trading Standards no longer in duty

    I asked help to citizen advice bureau after encountering problems with some builders. They referred me to trading standards, but got no news so trying to find out, this is the reply I received from trading standards in essex: <<all consumers requiring further support for consumer issues will be...
  2. PatriciaMarchand

    Lives in Chelmsford, retired, 72, French, female. Used to be a database developer contracting...

    Lives in Chelmsford, retired, 72, French, female. Used to be a database developer contracting under my own limited company. I have my personal website I used for marketing my skills but kept it and use it to show progresses of my home improvements, including good builders and bad builders...
  3. PatriciaMarchand

    Punishing bad traders

    Has anybody ever taken a bad builder to court, and what happened? In the absence of proper law to stop diy people creating disasters as they can call themselves a builder on all those builders directory one might need to make an example or try to lobby parliament to get a better system of...
  4. PatriciaMarchand

    Builders directories (checkatrade, trustatrader and the like)

    I retired last year and decided to embark on home improvements but I am losing so much money trying to undo what builders done wrong, it is terrible. Trustatrader blocked me so I no longer even can review one of their builders who obviously was not vetted properly as he has no proper company...
  5. PatriciaMarchand

    Hi my name is Patricia

    I live in Chelmsford, retired last year and trying to improve my home with many problems encountered with builders and builders directories! trying to fight back is difficult but getting there
  6. PatriciaMarchand

    I am a lone female too 72 years old nd a foreigner to top it up,. Had many bad experiences all...

    I am a lone female too 72 years old nd a foreigner to top it up,. Had many bad experiences all via trustatrader, checkatrade and even which trader! so I dearly synpathise with you
  7. PatriciaMarchand

    Builder Dispute Help!!!

    Yes I have suffered from bad builders syndromes since last year when I decided to do a total refurbishment of my home. You name it I had it. Most of them via trustatrader.com, checkatrade and the like. Recently a landscaper called RichardMoore Landscapes, I found on a builders of 'vetted'...