Any thoughts on the above?
Seems like a good idea & cheap enough for a punt.
Anyone care to try the postcode search & see if you know whoever it brings up?
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The UK Guild of Handymen
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There are lots of 'not currently a member' entries and no members!!!!
AWEM
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You are on it 'Not currently a member'.
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It doesn't launch until 15th October - its a new service.
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In article , The Medway Handyman writes
value but another crest on the website wouldn't do any harm.
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UK Guilt of Handymen.
What have you been up to, Our Dave?
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Yes I know, I registered for free.
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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
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Knicker drawer?
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Too many currents - are they baking a cake?
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Not currantly, no....
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..but they might be building a grid..:-)
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It sounds to me like it might become another of these organisations that pressurise the government into restricting d-i-y.
Remember gas; electricity...
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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
*incompetence* via an on-line (presumably multiple choice) test - but how the hell do you demonstrate your *competence* in things practical that way?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.
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My view of most of these schemes, having been invited to join more than one, usually for no good reason.
Colin Bignell
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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
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Not a single entry for my postcode.
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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!
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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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Searching WC1
20 listed, all "not currently a member", only three are really local, none I have ever heard of, none I would consider using.