Below is a post on a local community page.
If anyone answers the door to a man in a high vis' jacket offering garden services please be ware.
I just watched three teens/pre-teens use a jet wash to spray my mothers house for £120 - having promised to clean & resand the garden.
Instead , they caused a mess tipped over most of my mums plant pots and ornaments and left dirty walls and windows.
After my mum came home and asked when the sanding would be done he told her "oh I didn't promise I would do that unless you gave me more money"
Unfortunately my mum did not catch the name of the company.
Just feel they are targeting slightly naive and friendly neighbourhoods so thought I would share.
We've just cleaned all of her front walls and windows and picked up all her ornaments for her in an attempt to help salvage the mess she's paid for.
Response from local paper; Hi there, I'm sorry to hear this and you should defo report this to the police. I'd like to write a story about it for M&B Herald - please can you tell me what street this happened in and would you be OK with being named in a story? It would be good to warn more people about this and lots of people read our website/facebook page.
My response; A verbal agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on! If someone walks up and offers to carry out work be assertive with them and say NO THANKS! Talking will only give them the opportunity to work you down.
"I just watched" why did you just watch? "promised to clean & resand the garden" a vague description! " my mum came home" I'll assume she ran to the bank as she thought she was getting the deal of the century when some walk ups may have promised her the world. "oh I didn't promise I would do that unless you gave me more money" this could be true! " naive and friendly neighbourhoods" People with their heads up ones own arse! "We've just cleaned all....." why didn't you ask them to rinse it off before paying instead of watching them?
M&B Herald; "defo report this to the police" are you fecking serious! Dirty windows?
I was going to email the reporter some proper dirt regarding walk up services but she's probably wired to the moon.