"Niall" wrote
| geoff wrote:
| Just a thought, phone up your local area authority and find out
| who they use for council housing.
| Then choose anybody else.

*anybody* else. Even if they don't have a CORGI card :-)

| They should have filtered out the cowboys and have a reliable,
| fairly efficient company.
| Splorf.

Something like that.

| Whether you can get a good deal, and whether their
| response time would be acceptable when they have a
| significant work load, I don't know, try it and
| find out. It must at least be better than picking a
| company who probably have their pet source of references.

Instead of picking a company run by some councillor's relative ...

Owain