Choosing a trader and avoiding rogue traders

Be cautious when getting any home maintenance or improvement works done. 

Good traders:

• are often booked up weeks, or even months ahead and unlikely to be able to start immediately
• don’t usually need to advertise through leaflet drops or use websites where you place a job online for traders to contact you

Never:

• deal with uninvited doorstep traders – good traders do not need to knock on doors for work
• pay large sums of money upfront – payments for major jobs should be staged and only paid on completion against an agreed plan of works