Be wary if you receive a brochure offering to carry out a usually expensive job at an unusually low price. This is a favourite scam of dishonest home repair tricksters. Free' inspections by con men turn up plenty of expensive repairs you don't need. They come to your door and try to gain access by posing as repairmen or home insulation inspectors offering free inspections. They may quickly flash something that looks like an identification card to convince you to let them enter.
Some shady operators offer to do the work on the spot.
When they leave, you may be left with a large bill and a faulty repair job. The team of itinerant workers who approached a Uniting Church minister offering to asphalt the church car park, for what seemed a bargain basement price, turned out to be rogues. This team of tricksters explained that they had just finished a major project and had a large supply of asphalt left over. The job was completed in just under two hours, but the following Sunday after the congregation departed, the car park resembled a lunar landscape, with cracks and potholes everywhere. Our roving tricksters had failed to carry out the essential preparatory work.