Home Owners Should Seek Help from Experts to Prevent DIY Disasters, Says Ratedpeople.com

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Even the easiest of DIY jobs has the potential to go seriously wrong. Be it drilling too far into a wall or using the wrong sized nail when putting up a picture, all can end in unexpected damage and moreover, a big repair bill.

London, UK (PRWEB) June 11, 2009

Ratedpeople.com, the UK's largest match making service for home improvers and recommended tradesmen, is advising home owners to seek assistance from expert tradesmen to prevent potentially expensive DIY disasters.

One such DIY disaster that was recently described to Ratedpeople.com by one of its recommended plumbers, involved an individual that had begun to lay a new floor but failed to take the skirting boards into account when measuring and, once they were removed, managed to puncture a water pipe 16 times whilst nailing in a floorboard.

Fortunately, it was a central heating pipe which typically only contains around five buckets worth of water at any given time but, if it had been a mains pipe, it would have been an extremely costly mistake.

Indeed, any act of DIY performed by an inexperienced person has the potential to go seriously, and expensively, wrong - as many home owners have found out. Despite the money that the individual could save by doing the job themselves, in some cases, it's simply not worth it and hiring a local tradesman to do the job is ultimately the cheaper option.

Ottokar Rosenberger, Sales and Marketing Director of Ratedpeople.com, commented: "Even the easiest of DIY jobs has the potential to go seriously wrong. Be it drilling too far into a wall or using the wrong sized nail when putting up a picture, all can end in unexpected damage and moreover, a big repair bill."

Ratedpeople.com provides a quick and simple-to-use platform where home improvers can read reviews of, and attain quotes from, local tradesmen spanning 25 trades - anything from recommended heating engineers to local carpenters are all available with a simple click of a button.

The website aims to promote higher standards of home improvement, whilst creating an equal platform on which both businesses and consumers can communicate.

Every month, Ratedpeople.com manages over £30m in home improvement projects and more than 1,000 tradesmen sign up making it the UK's largest match making service for home improvers and recommended tradesmen. The site has more than 55,000 ratings to date and its system ensures that tradesmen are only rated by the customers who find them through the site. The result is one of the fairest and most robust rating systems on the net.

For further information on how to find an expert tradesperson in your area visit Ratedpeople.com.

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