In my opinion regulation is not all good. As said before Corgi regulates gas and plumbers. In theory, this is great, as dealing with water and gas is dangerous and expensive to put right. However the most cowboys out there are proberly plumbers, followed by builders.
In an ideal world the whole of the construction industry needs to be regulated by an independent regulator, but this is far from an ideal world.
The government is trying to regulate through the back door, think of Cscs cards, Cis cards and this new door stop selling rubbish. All these schemes require honest tradespeople having to fork out large amounts of cash to pass tests year on year with no financial benifits to themselves.
The sparkies have to jump through hoops to be certified and Part P etc. but most people dont want to pay the figures that they are quoted and get someone cheaper and most likely not regulated.
The customer dictates the market, whatever they are willing to pay to get the job done, whether regulated or not, it does'nt matter to the majority of the market.
Eample. How many of you guys have been asked to see identification when veiwing a job. Do people ask if you are regulated, what happens when things gp wrong. I thought about joining the TTA but when I weighed up the pros and cons I decided against it.
There simply wasn't enough benifits for my company to consider it worthwhile.
