What is Check a Trade?
When you need work doing around your home, finding reputable tradesmen can be difficult. Can you really trust them? Checkatrade is a free service that gives you the background information you need to make a confident decision.
How does it work?
1. When you need a tradesman, it is hard to know if you are getting someone trustworthy.
2. The telephone directory is a lottery. A friend's recommendation is well-meaning, but only tells you the tradesman did a good job once.
3. Phone Checkatrade's Trade Appraisal Line or view details of their many recommended, vetted and monitored businesses online. Search for what you need in your area. Every business has been vetted and monitored: read all their feedback and results for yourself, including what their past customers think, and what work they have completed.
4. After a job well done, fill out a customer feedback card to let us know how the work went. Your feedback and comments go straight into our database to keep the public up to speed on who they can trust.
Why it works
The success of Checkatrade lies in the power of partnership.Consumers want to find tradesmen on whom they can rely to do a good job. Our trades and services want the phone to be ringing with genuine customers who trust them from the start. Checkatrade brings the two together. Years ago neighbours would recommend a local trader over the garden fence, and through word of mouth a reputation was built. These days it can be harder for the word to spread and the threat of rogue traders has increased. Checkatrade has brought word of mouth recommendation back for the twenty-first century using modern technology and the Internet.