On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:31:59 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:57:13 +0100, Frank Erskine
wrote:

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

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

Remember gas; electricity...

Nah, it's more like one of those organisations that springs unbidden
into being, to make someone a buck or two. Just like the Guild of
Master Craftsment.

Actually it sounds extremely complicated. The term "handyman" is so
wide-ranging that you'll have to have Boy-Scout type badges for
numerous different skills. Just because somebody is "competent" (and
how do you define that?) in, say, wallpapering, doesn't mean that they
have a clue about laying decking (yuk!) or changing a light switch.

UNLESS the idea of this 'guild' is purely from a point of view of
business ethics, such as completing a job before accepting any
payment, giving a proper quotation for a job rather than just an
estimate, and so on.

--
Frank Erskine