Mogga wrote:
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:10:05 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

My local council's trading standards dept operates a 'Fair Trader'
scheme & I've just been accredited as a member!

OO well done.
It's going in our area (Oldham)


http://www.medway.gov.uk/index/busin...fairtrader.htm

Not that difficult to satisfy their standards TBH, I already did 90%
of it anyway. According to several people I've met who are members
it gets you a lot of business. Cost me £124 a year.

What are the standards?

I found it really simple. They just want to see your paperwork systems e.g.
jobsheets, invoices, quotes etc. They ask if you are a member of any trade
bodies, check your PL insurance. Nothing complicated.

TBH the bloke they sent round was a plank. Badly in need of a personality
transplant. I could have given him a load of bull**** & got away with it.

They only tugged me on one thing, they insist on £2m PLI and I only had £1m.

As I said though, I was doing most of the stuff they wanted anyway, most
people probably are as well.


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