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Roman Russocki, Chief Executive of TrustMark said: "Up to 20cm (8in) of snow has already fallen in counties including Kent, Essex and Sussex and more is set to come over the weekend creating prime conditions for frozen plumbing in homes. In the run up to Christmas many households will be left empty as the occupants fly off to sunnier climes or back home to their families and with no central heating to keep temperatures up they could return home to expensive plumbing disasters. It is therefore vital that homeowners, particularly the elderly, do their best to minimise the potential damage and ensure that if things do go wrong, they hire legitimate tradesmen to carry out any repair work.
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"However hard we try to protect our homes from bad weather conditions, many of us will still require a tradesman to carry out repair work. To avoid falling prey to a rogue trader it is best to use a Government-backed website such as TrustMark which hosts thousands of reliable and trustworthy tradesmen whose work is regularly inspected on-site and who operate to Government Endorsed Standards."
To find your locally approved tradesmen, please visit www.trustmark.org.uk.
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