London: How bad is cowboy building?

We ask Londoners if they have experienced shoddy building work, and if they’d feel comfortable enough to speak up.

Transcript

00:00How comfortable do you think you'd be like spotting if bad work had been done and then do you think

00:05how would you feel about saying something to a builder if they had done bad work?

00:10I honestly don't think I'd be able to really spot it unless it was really obvious

00:19and I think yeah I probably wouldn't feel too comfortable either pointing it out unless I was

00:23the one that was you know paying for the work to be done or something like that. I might mention it

00:28if I were to notice I might mention it to whoever was paying if it was an easy thing to do but yeah.

00:34Yes I have heard about cowboy building I personally haven't had any but I know people

00:40who have. Being a chef I'm quite a forceful person so myself personally I would be very happy to

00:48give them a piece of my mind and let them know what I think. Yeah I'd want to make sure that it

00:52was decent work and if I could see something was clearly wrong I'd mention.