Dodgy builder took £60 off mum and never did the work! Picture: Kent Online After Shelley Weeks’ husband Wayne died of cancer she decided to invest the lump sum from his pension into improving the family home in Coxheath. She paid the building firm Trigon Property Care owned by Christopher Hook £60K to construct an […]
Author: Harry Mottram
Christmas nightmare: avoiding rubbish ‘Lapland experiences’ by checking out the organisers on CheckaCo for £3.85
Every Christmas hundreds of families have their hopes crushed by visiting rubbish Christmas Wonderlands. Those places that say you can enter a land of snow and ice, a land of magic and Christmas mystery filled with reindeer, presents and sparkling lights. When the reality is a rain-soaked car park with a few stalls, a naff […]
My kitchen nightmare: how I lost £500 to defunct firm – others have lost thousands to cowboy companies
If only we’d known about CrediCheckCo! Harry Mottram reports A few years ago, I put a deposit for a new kitchen with a local kitchen company who went bust after I had placed my order along with a deposit of £500. I never did get my kitchen and as for the deposit – you guessed […]