As a long standing industry professional it is never nice to have to highlight the rogues and conmen that operate in my industry as it drags the whole industry down,especially in these economic times when good news is in short supply. Sometimes though it cannot be avoided if the consumer is to be protected so fore-warned is fore-armed,especially when it comes to NPA Never Paint Again and the owner Guy Bell.
Some People Never Learn
Guy Bell and his cohorts have a long established track record of apparent dishonest practices and below are just a couple of independant respected web reviews.
There are lots more but we suspect some of the many others are possibly industry enemies trying to get revenge for past slights. As we cannot check the veracity of these we will not publicise them despite our own thoughts on the matter!
What to Watch Out For
1. Do not pay any upfront deposits to anyone supposedly working for Never Paint Again. The "company" carrying out the work is loosely known as All Seasons but has a very chequered past and its accounts - www.snoop4companies.co.uk - show the company is trading as insolvent and astonishingly has no assets. Not even a van or a set of ladders to its name!
2. The physical addesses given on the neverpaintagain website are not actual offices. One in Plymouth is a virtual cyber office with no sign of Never Paint Again or All Seasons and the other is a mail drop in Sheffield.
3. The man behind the sham company actually rents a house in Spain having auctioned off his possessions in the UK several years ago. Many think he believes himself immune from the UK Authorities because of this and this was perhaps why he left so quickly.
4. Claims about the Never Paint Again house painting service and its cutting edge products are completely bogus. There are no NPA products and no staff even.
5. NPA Never Paint Again was not formed in 1986 but began appearing on the internet after 2002 as a copy of the wethertex website which launched in 1999.
6. The NPA website is all the business consists of and is purely a disguised sales advert for an ever changing business called All Seasons.
7. The sole product their cohorts use, under disguise, is a widely available is Classic 21 Texgard,a spray paint from a company called Andura.
8. This product is available from many openly trading Andura dealers and in most cases for a lot less money.
9. NPA,Guy Bell and All Seasons are not members of any professional industry body and cannot offer free guarantee indemnities as they can't accept credit or debit cards either.
10. Never Paint Again have a disclaimer buried on their site absolving them of any responsibility for poor workmanship,complaint handling or guarantee related issues.
