Protectacoat

Duffers4768

Had the above company cold call me recently enquiring about painting the exterior of my house.
Does anybody have any experience of them?

trisontana

I believe that if a company has to resort to cold calling to drum up business (either by phone or by knocking on doors) then they or their product can't be very good.

maninthestreet

Try seaching for 'protectacoat' in these forums. Here's an earlier thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=311686&highlight=protectacoat

Careful_with_that_Axe

A few companies offering this type of product/service have been featured on Watchdog in the past.

mrbell

There are plenty of threads on this website about their exploits, plus search other sites. There is a hell of a lot of bad press about them and my advice is do NOT touch them. The reasons why would be too long to go into in one email! If you require work done to your house, research, and call in 3 companies to quote, at your leisure, DONT be fooled into false "show home" or "referral deals" and dont be pressured into buying home improvements on the night. Sleep on it, decide in your own time. THEY ARE MASSIVE HIGH PRESSURE! ......and they are about 4 times the price of everyone else doing the same or similar.

heres some info on them
http://www.diybanter.com/printthread.php?t=94086
and
http://www.blagger.com/db4/company_id/3396/companyname/Protectacoat.html
and
http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/general-consumer-issues/135326-protectacoat-so-called-guarentee.html
and
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=231711

DONT TOUCH THEM WITH BARGEPOLE, HONESTLY!


I hope the above is useful to you.