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Trading Standards Scotland is warning about salespeople posing as surveyors
Posted 25 October 2022 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Property and Housing|Scotland
UPDATES: Trading Standards Scotland warns that cold callers offering loft surveys are using misleading claims about damp, mould and grants to sell costly spray foam insulation that can later affect mortgage options.
Consumers in Scotland are being urged to be on the lookout for cold-callers offering ‘free surveys’ of lofts before engaging in high-pressure sales tactics to install spray foam insulation.
<a href="https://www.tsscot.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trading Standards Scotland</a> (TSS) has received complaints from residents who discovered t...
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