Checkatrader - user beware
My experience of Checkatrader mirrors those who have given them the lowest score. I too got a rogue trades person. But the worst of this is Checkatrader themselves. They make money from the tradesmen, around £3k per trade. They only undertake desktop checks, they don’t actually audit check any of the trade persons work that they use. They have an incoming customer call centre only and so don’t return calls; I only received one email from them after 4 weeks of calling them, to finally get a response from using their very odd complaints system, which was to write a poor review. They are meant to follow poor reviews up, but they did not. I accessed their guarantee form from their website and submitted it, but no response. Due to the damage to my internal ceilings because of poor workmanship meant I had to get it fixed, as I was getting no service from Checkatrader. One of Checkatrader’s call centre workers made it clear to me that I would get nowhere with them in compensation, as I had got the repair done despite explaining that the roof was going to cause further damage to my ceilings. So if you use them remember it a lottery as to whether you get a reputable tradesperson. It’s best to get a recommendation from a real person that you know, which was the only way I got the work repaired to stop the roof leaking when it rained. In reality they offer no real service to access trusted traders.
August 22, 2022
Unprompted review