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Posted by Comprehensive_End65 5 months ago
Property maintenance

I own a property maintenance company that covers the UK.

I am currently doing research on how you currently find tradesmen?

Reason being is we are looking to increase our workload and need to ascertain in which direction to go

Please comment below with your current process.

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Posted by pow7890 5 months ago

Google Recommendations Pot luck if I find a good tradesman, when I do I keep their details.

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Posted by amotherofcats 5 months ago

Personal recommendations from someone I know well such as a friend or neighbour whenever possible.

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Posted by scruffs1234 5 months ago

My letting agency sources the contractors for me. Each year they claim to review the contractors they use and state that they are competitive.

So far, I’ve had tradesman loose EICRs, not send invoices for months, replace one thing on a toilet, then replace the exact same thing a month later. One tradesman says I need something repaired, another one went out and checked it and said just clean it

Useless. Would prefer to find my own but challenging when don’t have contact with tenant and live out of the city the flat is in

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Posted by Comprehensive_End65 5 months ago

Surprisingly, we've come across a fair few jobs like this where we've gone in and realised the previous tradesman did a poor job or an unnecessary one.

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Posted by scruffs1234 5 months ago

Incredibly frustrating. I keep trying to call the agency out for it, and noticed they never once say sorry. They just investigate and never come back to me, even when I chase. Discovered this evening all their 5 stars reviews in Google are suspiciously similar. Fake.

Good luck

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Posted by Slightly_Effective 5 months ago

I think the main issue is that work is not checked before being invoiced for, so the tradie just carries on happy as Larry and keeps getting sweet jobs they can be poor at with no-one addressing it.

Get the job inspected (by someone competent) before signing it off and most of your issues will be resolved.

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Posted by Gay_for_neo 5 months ago

Facebook search using whatever trade I need plus the name of the town I’m looking in. Then just search for trades that people have recommended, and view their reviews

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Posted by LLHandyman 5 months ago

The pub

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Posted by theme111 5 months ago

I've got most of mine through recommendations or posts on NextDoor.

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Posted by IntelligentDeal9721 5 months ago

The road one of our rentals is on. We know a bunch of the people there and it's got a lot of tradefolk so someone always knows someone who is good. Of course except for emergencies they are "get back to you in 6 months" because the only people around here without a 6 month backlog are the ones who managed the near impossible life achievement of being fired from a newbuild site.

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