All Trades GB Ltd - Blackburn

John Reeves

House fire renovation in Seascale.
After a devastating fire at our home just two days before Christmas in 2023. All trades were appointed by our Insurance company to repair, renovate and re-decorate our home. Their professional approach and total commitment to quality were evident from the outset. Despite being a good two hours away from their Blackburn base their early starting and late finishing demonstrated their work ethic. The hard work and competence of all their workforce was reinforced by their friendly and helpful manner. The attention to detail and communication from their office staff was outstanding, nothing but helpful. Everything was done to the highest standard and any of the many difficulties overcome.
My wife and I would highly recommend their company and would like to thank them for what for us was an very successful repair and renovation.
John & Jane Reeves

Dave Green

They are currently in the process of very slowly wrecking my home, courtesy of Aviva insurance. At every stage the work has been planned and executed incompetently. When they arrived on day one I wasn't there, so rather than phoning to ask where I was, they started demolishing the wall of my house without properly bracing it. This resulted in cracking in the walls in the room above which they have still not accepted responsibility for. I am only grateful the damage wasn't much worse.

They then took the radiator off the wall, damaging the pipework in the process, which resulted in my central heating being rendered out of order, which they have made no serious effort to rectify. I still have no heating. It is late November, two months after they started work. This damage also resulted in water soaking into the joists below the radiator, which they have done nothing about.

They then rebuilt the wall without the necessary insulating material which resulted a huge amount of mould which meant they had to tear the plaster off the wall and start again.

They then decided that finishing around my front door was too complicated for them so they boxed it in with 6 inch wide pine planks.

They also replastered an upstairs wall without bothering to take the radiator off the wall, with predictable results.

They latest thing they have done is started laying the laminate flooring on the ground floor, which is supposed to run through the whole of the ground floor with no thresholds, but they have cut the boards at the door, necessitating a threshold and defeating the object of running the flooring throughout the ground floor.

Oh, and they got paint all over the radiator that they had just fitted (into a non-working system).

In other words, as I said, every single stage of the project, at seemingly every level, has been marred by incompetence. But, hey, I'm sure they're cheap!

Alison Driver

If I could I would give this company minus stars!!!
Appointed by insurers this company were engaged to repair flood damage last year on my home in Rossendale. The photos below (other than the one with red wall) was the work that they handed over as complete. Their quality check was “the cleaner hadn’t said anything”!!!
Had them back twice to redo but standard still shocking and sent them packing. NB Aviva is still offering them out to do insurance work.
One year on I have just noticed they’ve used the wrong colour paint to touch up presumably red paint marks they’ve made on the ceiling but not even bothered to use the right paint colour.
Absolutely appalling standard of work and if you’re reading the reviews on this company check the names against the “who we are” on their website. You’d expect the MD to give them 5 stars.

Colin Bond

I would not recommend the use of All Trades GB Ltd (based in Blackburn) at all. They were appointed by AA insurers and were engaged to repair water damage from a tank in the loft in an empty house we inherited from a relative, and despite working to a detailed report provided by the AA, they employed contactors who at best did a very amateurish job.
No radiators were removed and papering and painting behind these were awful, with wall paper hanging off behind some radiators. Painting in some of the rooms, and on the stairs and landing, were inadequate at best and no light switches or plug sockets where loosened anywhere and therefore paint was applied over the edges of these. Light fittings were removed from the ceilings and not replaced and where just left hanging. The bathroom had not been tiled and sealed completely and the bathroom ceiling had not been replaced at all. The celling had been replaced where the leak from the tank in the loft that had caused the water damage but no loft insulation had been installed. All rubbish had just been piled up at the side of the house.
Having believed they had completed the work they emailed me for confirmation at which point I visited the house and reported back on the work that had not been completed. At this point they asked me to send photographs off the areas of concern but I refused and demanded a visit from the project manager in charge. When he visited and observed the work, he agreed that it wasn’t up to standard and he agreed to get it corrected. Consequently, we had to wait a further few weeks for any more work to be attempted but despite further visits it has not been completed to any decent standards and no way in line with the AA report. In the end we just gave up and paid a decorator ourselves to complete the work properly
If you a are claiming for damage repair via an insurance company my advice would be to avoid All Trades GB Ltd (based in Blackburn) AT ALL COSTS!

Julie Grundy

Excellent work carried out to a very high standard. Everyone was lovely to deal with. The trades people worked really hard to finish the job. From first point of contact, office staff, joiner, plumber, electricians and decorator everyone was a pleasure to deal with. I wouldn't hesitate to use any of the trade people again. They returned my house back to prior to the burst pipe. I consider myself fussy
A job well done
thank you

Rosalyn Robson

What a fantastic job completed by All Trades, following a floor to the house All trades put our home back together in a very professional manner, complete to a high standard, in a relatively quick time , many that’s to all the staff ,

Louise Marsden

After a fire on Christmas Eve, All Trades have been tasked by @Aviva to undertake the works to the property.
This company found it right to paint over the soot ladened walls which hadn’t been cleaned whilst all damaged furniture was still in the property and hadn’t been removed.
The have also as of todays date 10/3/23, installed 80% of the new kitchen with soot still on the walls and a wall that has partially been removed and not re-plastered exposing burnt insulation.
The boiler has been housed in a new cupboard and has never been cleaned which is a worry and the wall behind the boiler has been blocked off and now cannot be cleaned.
I have since tried to speak to a person that is in charge of All Trades and I have been told that they are either in a meeting or they are out to lunch.
I have no faith whatsoever that the job will be completed to a high /safe standard and I am extremely worried that because the job isn’t being project managed that safety isn’t a priority!

Richard Dugdale

I had my garage rebuilt plus repairs to the house after a disastrous fire last year. The job took a year, which was a problem, but the quality of work and the finished job was superb. I can recommend them if you want a good job doing.