With Cowboy builders becoming more of a problem in the UK, we hit the streets of Manchester to ask people if they would know what to do if they encountered work that they were unhappy with.
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00:00Hi, I'm Theo with Manchester World and today I'm out on the streets of Manchester asking
00:03people about cowboy builders. And the reason for that is we've seen a 50% increase in the
00:07amount of cowboy builders operating in the UK and the amount of plants about it too.
00:11Yeah, no, I've fortunately had good luck, but I understand the draw to try and accomplish
00:18things as cheaply as possible.
00:20Like, because there's such a shortage of housing and accommodation, it's kind of like, people
00:24just take it, you have to kind of go with it.
00:26It's that or have nowhere to live.
00:27I suppose like proper cowboy building though, like, I don't know that I could front them
00:32or anything.
00:33There's not enough information about it.
00:34Yeah.
00:35Information about how to tell.
00:36Yeah.
00:37Do you know, it's very easy to get somebody in.
00:38Yeah, you can be, you know, have your street smarts and be clued up, but I wouldn't say
00:41it's ingrained in society here to kind of know what those routes are.
00:45The onus is very much on the individual to do your due diligence and understand what
00:49your rights are.
00:50But I think there probably is a room for some citizen education there.
00:53There's no information out there to say, well, that's the difference between a proper
00:56contractor.
00:57No, it will be really helpful.
00:58Yeah, it will be really cool.
00:59Yeah.