Someone like a cowboy builder taking your business, getting control of it, and running off.

It would have helped to protect homeowners from cowboy builders.

One key factor is that the council guarantees the work as a protection against cowboy builders.

The team addresses the problems and usually confront the cowboy builder by a phone call, though this is not always successful.

As part of the drive to tackle cowboy builders, a working group was set up, and recommended a quality mark scheme.

A quality mark scheme with a consumer complaint element will hit cowboy builders hard.

I see little difference between these self-appointed 'bat experts" and cowboy builders."

I'm a cowboy builder so we're doing a bit of shoddy work, and my friend's got stuck in the cement.

He will liken both leaders to "a couple of cowboy builders coming back to your house to tell you how bad their workmanship is".

Tonight he meets Lee, who’s been the victim of cowboy builders and whose house has a terrible stench.

Others worry it will encourage so-called "cowboy builders" into people's homes and be hard for renters to use.

Such behaviour makes cowboy builders look like choirboys.

A cowboy builder has been jailed for five years after conning an elderly woman out of her entire £120,000 savings.

The Federation hopes that these initiatives together with those proposed by the Government will put the cowboy builder out of business.

Sharp Practice - The devious, deceitful, fraudulant behaviour of cowboy builders.

The Sketch: What cowboy builders will Ed use to hard-wire fairness in society?

A cowboy builder charged a single mother £38,000 to renovate her home - but left her without electricity, plumbing, a bathroom or a kitchen.

Details October 2002: Crackdown on cowboy builders.

More information on Building Control in Newtownabbey and advice on avoiding cowboy builders.

Curtius was a cowboy builder.

Ab Fab star in dispute with 'cowboy builders'

We will designate more in other parts of the country and continue to raise standards of urban design, with a quality mark to tackle cowboy builders.

Do-it-yourself decorators and cowboy builders are ruining Britain's historic towns, according to planning watchdogs.

'Cowboy Builders' have been mentioned.

Cowboy builders could under-cut reputable contractors by telling clients to ignore the regulations and dumping the waste illegally, he said.