Why we started
I used to be an Army Officer and then a Police Officer, and I did that for twenty years, which I figured was long enough. Throughout that time I was away from home a lot, leaving my wife to cope with the children, the home and all of life's other daily pressures.
Getting tradesmen round was a nightmare. She'd wait in and no one would turn up. If they did, they were often scruffy and pretty uninterested, and if she got a quote it was often just a figure on a sheet of paper, the 'fag packet' method.
I've always done a fair bit of DIY, so when it came to leaving I decided to completely retrain and work solely for Army and Police staff. Over time that spread to their friends and family, and then to customers who simply wanted a builder they could trust to do the work properly.
