The UK Guild of Handymen

There are lots of 'not currently a member' entries and no members!!!!

AWEM

You are on it 'Not currently a member'.

It doesn't launch until 15th October - its a new service.

In article , The Medway Handyman writes

value but another crest on the website wouldn't do any harm.

UK Guilt of Handymen.

What have you been up to, Our Dave?

Yes I know, I registered for free.

The catchment area is ridiculously wide: well over forty miles, in my case. And not one of the several excellent (very) local men and firms came up.

The postcode search includes a lot of names marked as "not currently a member" which rather makes one wonder about the criteria for getting listed.

Bert

Knicker drawer?

Too many currents - are they baking a cake?

Not currantly, no....

..but they might be building a grid..:-)

It sounds to me like it might become another of these organisations that pressurise the government into restricting d-i-y.

Remember gas; electricity...

away. It found a couple of dozen who are "not currently a member" within a 35 mile radius - but *not* a bloke who is virtually on the doorstep.

The criteria for joining seem a bit dubious - including an on-line competence test. I suppose you might demonstrate your rank

Ok, you also need a couple of positive customer reviews - but I'm sure that even the BBC's Rogue Traders would have no problem in forging those!

I suppose if it catches on, you may have to become a member - and presumably pay a fee - in order to get any work. But I suspect that it's just a licence to print money for whoever dreamt up the idea - and not worth a lot to the consumer.

My view of most of these schemes, having been invited to join more than one, usually for no good reason.

Colin Bignell

Very new:

Date of Incorporation: 02/09/2011

If you try the postcode G81 1AN you may find competition!!!!!!

Owain

PS I suspect from a mistyped postcode they may be sourcing non-member data from

Not a single entry for my postcode.

For my postcode it didn't bring up any names that I recognise from local rags etc, but it did bring up a non-local handyman whose address was coincidentally the same as the address of the guild!

My search came with non-members in Sheerness, Gillingham, Chatham and Rochester. They are all around 10 to 15 miles away from S.E. Essex (but not by road).

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