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    SHOULD YOU ALWAYS GET THREE QUOTES?

    Nov 28, 2019 2 minutes
    WORDS ALISON JONES

    YES

    ‘The more people you see, the more you learn about the job to make decisions’

    Caroline Watterson (@carolinewatterson), her husband Richard and their two children live in a Victorian semi in Horbury, Wakefield

    ‘We’d contact five people for quotes to do work on our house, because invariably two wouldn’t turn up or were late, so I knew they were unreliable. We). I’d get multiple quotes for peace of mind and to be sure we were getting the best deal, though I didn’t always go for the cheapest.

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