Cowboy Builders

The government has announced a crackdown on “cowboy builders”, but what does it actually mean for the industry? With data from Citizens Advice finding that more than one in four households who carried out home improvements work in the past 18 months experienced problems, with more than 1 in 3 (37%) of these facing extra […]

A report by Sky News has outlined that only 43 cowboy builders were prosecuted last year, despite “tens of thousands” of complaints made. The report, which highlighted the distress caused to the people that are ripped off, includes the shocking story of a disabled man – former electrician Steve Higgs – who has “been living […]

Tens of thousands of homeowners in England are getting ripped off by cowboy tradespeople every single year, according to new research into Citizens Advice Bureau complaints from SGS Engineering.  The data, obtained through Freedom of Information requests, reveals that England is on course to accumulate over 30,000 cowboy builder complaints by the end of the year, […]