O/T Paving Contractors

[Enoch Mort]

I don't whether it is a local phenomenon to where I live but a paving contractor named Marshalls is fly posting signs advertising themselves at junctions, commercial advertising hoardings and they will screw signs to your fence without your permission. If they are doing a job they will attach signs to lamp posts and every available place close to where they are doing the job. The signs have proliferated in Cyncoed, Llanishen and Rhiwbina. When you leave Sainsburys in Thornhill there are 4 signs attached to fencing there. Last year the same happened except it was a company called Hansons and it seems to have happened every year in recent years albeit companies with different names. I must admit my drive needs doing but I can't say that their carpet bombing an area with their signs encourages me to get a quote from them. Anyone else noticed this ?

[BLUETIT]

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They are all the same lot and the live on Rover Way

If you want your drive done properly, contact Splott Parker

[The Bloop]

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Similar thing been going on in Gabalfa/Llandaff North for a while. Tree surgeons as well as block paving businesses. Most of them have just mobile phone numbers and no business address either.
Would it be unreasonable for me to conclude they're based in the Rumney/Wentloog area?

[The Bloop]

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I've also noticed a few are giving themselves similar names of well established genuine businesses. DJ Mackay roofers is one (the genuine is on Lansdowne Rd, the copy is on New Rd Rumney). There's also 2 called something like TR33.

[Former Labour leader]

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Wanted a roof done a while ago. Failed initially to get anyone locally so tried this Trusted Trader lark. Only person to phone back had a strong Irish accent. Needless to say I didn't proceed with him and was eventually lucky enough to get someone locally, and not from Rover Way, to get roof done.

[Talksport]

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I've also noticed a few are giving themselves similar names of well established genuine businesses. DJ Mackay roofers is one (the genuine is on Lansdowne Rd, the copy is on New Rd Rumney). There's also 2 called something like TR33.

I've used TR33 a few times, always been very pleased with their work, and reasonable too. I haven't heard of another company with that name

[Enoch Mort]

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They are all the same lot and the live on Rover Way

If you want your drive done properly, contact Splott Parker

OK, I get the Rover Way reference

[The Bloop]

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I've used TR33 a few times, always been very pleased with their work, and reasonable too. I haven't heard of another company with that name

I called one, after a flyer was posted through my door. They quoted me £600 to dismantle a rotten wooden shed and remove the rubbish. It wasn't the genuine tr33.

[tomcat]

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I've also noticed a few are giving themselves similar names of well established genuine businesses. DJ Mackay roofers is one (the genuine is on Lansdowne Rd, the copy is on New Rd Rumney). There's also 2 called something like TR33.

The genuine TR33 company is long standing and well respected ,owned by a Kiwi bloke

[tomcat]

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I was recommended a guy called Alan Lee to replace my fascia boards and guttering so asked him to have a look.Next thing he's pulling it off as if he was going to replace it there and then. His quote was reasonable and his nephew, who seemed a good lad, I got on well with and he did a good job. Towards the end he was bombarding me with calls to say that my 1996 house needed a new roof as they'd spotted water pouring in. I refused and he wasn't happy, the longer he spoke the more his Traveller accent came through. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wal...s-22555634.amp

[tomcat]

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And this is his nephew, who seemed a good lad at the time 🤦*♂️https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...eadmore-target

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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On a slightly different note, are fence posts inferior these days when compared to a few years ago? I have put them in a garden or two of mine at different junctures but two I put in concrete bases two years ago have already broken by rotting away at the base - and I not only ensure that the post is clear of any earth around it but make sure that the concrete base is raised above ground level immediately around the foot of the post and at an angle against the post so that the rain water runs away from it.

[The Bloop]

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The genuine TR33 company is long standing and well respected ,owned by a Kiwi bloke

Indeed. That's who I thought I'd asked for a quote - it clearly wasn't.

[goats]

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I don't whether it is a local phenomenon to where I live but a paving contractor named Marshalls is fly posting signs advertising themselves at junctions, commercial advertising hoardings and they will screw signs to your fence without your permission. If they are doing a job they will attach signs to lamp posts and every available place close to where they are doing the job. The signs have proliferated in Cyncoed, Llanishen and Rhiwbina. When you leave Sainsburys in Thornhill there are 4 signs attached to fencing there. Last year the same happened except it was a company called Hansons and it seems to have happened every year in recent years albeit companies with different names. I must admit my drive needs doing but I can't say that their carpet bombing an area with their signs encourages me to get a quote from them. Anyone else noticed this ?

Used to go by the name Everest too I believe, not sure how they got away with that but they did. They did a lot of drives around by me about 7 yrs ago including mine, a bit of a nerve wracking ride but they did it really well, half the price of most and it’s still top notch now

[Enoch Mort]

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Used to go by the name Everest too I believe, not sure how they got away with that but they did. They did a lot of drives around by me about 7 yrs ago including mine, a bit of a nerve wracking ride but they did it really well, half the price of most and it’s still top notch now

Now you mention it I remember Everest. I think that was the one that started it all off.

The fly posting they do is unacceptable. There is a fence by the roundabout junction with Cyncoed Road and the owner on a number of occasions has had to unscrew as many as four signs from it