Plumbers in South Lanarkshire are amongst the top 10 most complained about in the UK.
Some 207 complaints were received by South Lanarkshire Council’s Trading Standards department about plumbing work or products in the past two years.
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The Water Regulation Advisory Scheme (WRAS) submitted Freedom of Information requests to every council in the UK with a Trading Standards authority, to determine the areas where most complaints were lodged about plumbing tradesmen.
South Lanarkshire was the only Scottish area to make the list by coming fourth, while Surrey and Buckinghamshire topped the list, receiving 313 complaints.
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Julie Spinks, managing director of WRAS, said: “Consumers are experiencing problems with plumbers up and down the country. Whilst it’s encouraging to see that so many are using their right to complain about bad tradesmen, it’s worrying that so many have felt the need to.”
Despite there being more than 7,000 complaints lodged to UK councils in the last two years, only 12 fines were issued.
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