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The Yearly 350m Price Tag On DIY Mistakes Is Easily Avoidable SaysRatedpeople.com

British home owners make 's163;350 million worth of DIY mistakes every year -- an expense that can be easily avoided according to Ratedpeople.com the UK'ss largest match making service for home improvers and recommended tradesmen.

Recent research has revealed that home improvement programmes such as Property Ladder, DIY SOS and Changing Rooms have encouraged around 12 million home owners to take on DIY jobs without professional help. Subsequently, of that number 750,000 ended up making costly mistakes and paying on average 's163;484 to rectify their blunders.

It'ss been suggested by Ratedpeople.com that the cost of such mistakes could be avoided by using professional tradesmen to do more challenging home improvement tasks. Ratedpeople.com is a website that helps home owners find professional tradesmen within their local area. Users of the site simply enter details of the home improvement work they have and Ratedpeople.com finds recommended tradesmen to quote on the work.

Ottokar Rosenberger, Sales and Marketing Director of Ratedpeople.com commented: There is always a risk when attempting DIY jobs that something could go wrong and to add 's163;484 to the bill, is surely reason enough to hire a tradesman to do the work. Ratedpeople.com not only makes it easy to find a tradesman but also to find the best quote as you can get up to three from tradesmen who are interested in the work. As a result the whole process could be fairly inexpensive - and depending on the job, even less than 's163;484!

Indeed, attempting home improvements such as electrics or plumbing can invalidate some home insurance policies and leave the home owner liable for the cost of any subsequent damage.

You can use Ratedpeople.com to find any number of different tradesmen; from local electricians (http://www.ratedpeople.com/find/electrician) to local roofers (http://www.ratedpeople.com/find/roofer) and recommended builders (http://www.ratedpeople.com/find/builder). Every month, Ratedpeople.com manages over 's163;30m in home improvement projects and more than 1,000 tradesmen sign up making it the UK'ss 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 source a recommended tradesperson in your area, visit Ratedpeople.com.

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