Have you been affected by cowboy builders?
We ask the people of Newport about their experience with dodgy builders, and what needs to be done to fix it.
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00:00I had cowboy builders here a couple of years ago who literally said that they were going to build me a new attic.
00:10They had all the stuff in front of them. Obviously it was not even legal.
00:14One said he was an electrician and it turned out he wasn't. They come and smashed my wall down.
00:19I think probably there needs to be more legislation and registration for builders and building companies
00:25whereby they have to be held accountable to a certain standard.
00:29I don't think in any other job you'd be able to run around saying that you're going to do something if you can't do it to the correct standard.
00:35I don't know what the solution is but perhaps there needs to be more legislation and policing of those companies
00:42to make sure that things are being done to an appropriate standard.
00:45Literally came to me for thousands and I had to really fight to get anything sorted.
00:52You see so many programmes, especially like the older people are, it's absolutely disgraceful.
00:58But there's nothing that can stop them.