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Dave Reilly from plastercare helped at my place and I found him really good. He's recommended elsewhere on this forum if you search his name.

I've had the benefit of lots of good recommendations from this forum. I don't like to leave negative feedback online as I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. But I feel I need to be fair to others as I got my recommendation for him from this very thread, so... we engaged Steve to remove a concrete plinth and a wall from our garden, build a small wall and returf the lawn. Our experience of him was truly dreadful. He would constantly come up with excuses as to why he wasn't turning up and delays. We heard every excuse under the sun. He quoted 1 week, it took 4. Yes, 4. He responded to legitimate requests as to how he was going to finish to schedule with a tirade of abuse over email to my wife, the like of which I have never seen. He then took an extra 3 weeks. This was accompanied by aggressive chasing for payment when the job was still incomplete. The work he carried out was seriously substandard, the lawn has been greeted by laughter (I'm serious) from people who've seen it. The walls: we now need to engage someone else do a proper job of what he did badly, all to our extra cost. Perhaps he had never built a wall before (it certainly looks that way) and it was too much for him, but then he shouldn't have taken the job on. He seemed very chaotic, disorganised and unprofessional. And we really didn't appreciate the weirdly over the top emails which bordered on unhinged. He also left my property in a poor state which meant a day of me and my wife clearing up behind him which we could have done without. If I could track down an address for him I'd be recovering my costs from him in the courts.

I would recommend Dave. We had two 'specialist' damp proffers tell us the large damp patch in our kitchen was damp and required thousands of pounds to repair. Dave took one look at it and confirmed it was not damp. A few months later and Dave really does seem to have fixed the problem for about 1/5 of what the other 'experts' quoted us. He has a direct style which I quite like though it is very direct! Would recommend to others.

We actually went with someone else for our new boiler fit but I wanted to add that we would have used Lee had we not already used the other guy. He seemed very competent and knowledgeable, friendly and his prices were good. Felt a shame not to give him the work tbh but I feel like he would have done a good job.

Another recommendation for John. He fitted a complete new boiler for us and was really good at talking through our various options. He's also done smaller things for us like service etc. Efficient and friendly so highly recommended.

Hi there. IS this boiler still available? thanks