smiste2002

The police have cordoned off a road, it's more than likely to be serious - which it was - the police don't generally waste their time. Doesn't take much intelligence to figure that out. Creditwheredue and Humdinger should find better things to do with their time than pathetic attempts at humour.

We have just had the exterior and interior of our house painted by Terry and wanted to recommend him to others. Things started well when Terry turned up to do the quote on time. This was the exception. He always turned up when he said he would. Having had a lot of work done before and lots of people to quote for various jobs, this was refreshing! He was flexible on timing to fit around other works and the baby's sleep schedule. He communicated regularly and managed our expectations and was always polite and friendly. He is knowledageable and offered advice about what would work best. He and his team had good attention to detail and he has come back once other works complete to touch up as needed. They were tidy and always cleaned up after themselves. Happy to recommend Terry and his team. His number is +44 7931 686935.

We were looking for someone to do a complete overhaul of our garden, and on searching the forum spoke to 3 different people. Of those Jasper Davis (T:07966251778 E:[email protected]) certainly came across as the most understanding of what we wanted to achieve, promptly provided examples and suggestions, and a competitive quote. Jasper is polite, punctual, efficient and very clean & organised in his works. We live in a terrace and they patiently & carefully moved everything in and out through the house! Moreover he clearly has a lot of expert knowledge and worked closely with us to design the ideal garden, and happy to make adjustments as we went. All was finished on time and to budget (seemingly quite rare from tradespeople in London these days!), and Jasper has checked in with us since finishing and provided some useful tips. I'd highly recommend Jasper and happy to field questions or share photos, just message me directly.

Based on this recommendation I asked Urban Space (Michael) to come around to provide a quote - arrived a few hours late (due to an emergency...the std excuse). He did a pretty comprehensive survey of the work required and offered useful comments...BUT then rather strangely never provided a quote, despite several follow up requests from myself, seemingly disappearing into Urban Space. A waste of time unfortunately.

I chose Garvey Plumbing to fit a new radiator and move an existing one after reading the recommendations, however I am sorry to say that my overall experience with them has been VERY disappointing. Lee himself was polite and punctual when he came to provide a quote, which was competitive, but from then on experienced the following array of problems: 1) They were due to arrive at 0830 but didn?t show up until 1130. After a couple of hours they were gone again and did not return until just after 5pm when I had chased with several calls. 2) Lee had said the work should take one day. The new radiator could not be fitted due to the fact it was damaged but they did not even finish moving the existing one that day. 3) They came back next day when I was not there to finish moving the existing radiator, but they did not finish at all and seemingly achieved very little. When I returned from work I heard a hissing noise coming from the spare room ? the radiator valve had been left open. I checked other rooms and found the valve in another room was also open and water flowing out onto the carpet which was already completely soaked and is now stained. 4) There were several scratches on our dining room table. This could have been the decorators or the plumbers, but the latter were the ones with heavy tools and moving very heavy radiators that could cause such scratches in wood?jury?s out on this one. 5) When they came back to fix the new radiator they snapped a piece of the shelf in the boiler cupboard and left a black mark (immovable with cloth and thus needing touch up paint) on our newly decorated living room wall. 6) Throughout their various visits they seemed to want to get the job done in a rush and move on as quickly as possible. Lee himself was apologetic for the first array of errors, and we came to agreement on how to compensate that. When Lee came round to do the bulk of the remaining work himself he was again punctual, efficient and helpful. Unfortunately I haven?t heard back from him since reporting the problems resulting from the final visit, perhaps something to do with the fact he had already been paid? Based on other reports it would seem I was unlucky to experience so many problems whilst undertaking a relatively simple job. However, that bad luck was simply due to the carelessness and incompetency of Lee?s staff. If you do employ Garvey Plumbing I?d recommend you ask for Lee to do the work. I certainly won?t be using them again.