Cowboy builders | Clamping down on cowboys - the building inspectors |
Despite all the bad press they get, cowboy builders continue to rip
off homeowners. They can be callous too, picking on the elderly and vulnerable.
The kind of thing they get away with is carrying out work which isn't needed
and then more likely than not do it badly.
Now though there are people
in Trading Standards departments who have the sole task to catch them. Ashley
Blake has been given exclusive access to one man whose mission is to round up
the cowboys. But, as we soon learn, building a case against the rogue traders
is not easy, and even when the cowboys end up in court, often the punishment does
not fit the crime. Inside Out joins building inspector Mark Harding on
the trail of these rogue contractors.
"They are villains,"
Mark says. "They move into homes, destroy people聮s physical and mental
health, destroy the single biggest asset they have."
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