We used checkatrade to find a plumber to fit a bathroom for us we found the nearest one to us and he had a score of 9.8 at the time Coral Jewel Bathrooms the owner was Peter Beckwith. We hired him to do a basic bathroom for 3200.00 nightmare from start to finish but once moving you sometimes give someone benefit of the doubt. On second to last day we paid him the full remaining balance in cash, to keep this down he refused to come back to finish off plus the faults we had told him needing sorting out. Checkatrade phoned him he waffled on saying he would come back which he had no intention. We sent in the bad review with all the evidence but he ignored them after the 7 days they posted review and the same day the company was removed from checkatrade. I contacted them again as we decided to take him to court so I requested his address which they refused to give me saying it was data protection seems to me they are protecting the criminal. I paid to get his address and took him to court and won he didn't even bother to turn up hardly surprising. My problem here is checkatrade look after cowboy companies and the vetting is a waste of time. We found out he had been on checkatrade and the first job he did he ended up getting removed from checkatrade as the review was bad and the police were called. After 12 months you can go back and checkatrade then get a few fake reviews and that will push the bad one out of sight as is what happened here. Before we went to court I had my vehicle window smashed at night by this trader and police informed. Checkatrade are in it for the money and nothing else and today the advert on the radio is they guarantee all traders work for 12 months so what about the hundreds like us. Well we be in touch with you checkatrade and why don't you allow Google reviews for your company or is it that you are scared of the truth being written.