At the program's peak, some 2, 300 tradespeople a day were involved, finishing work on 200 homes a day.

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Addressing both the visitors and tradespeople was the local member in the National Assembly, Plaid Cymru's Dafydd Wigley.

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To compound the late and non-payment issue, tradespeople are investing an average of 36 days every year chasing overdue customer bills.

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While according to consumers, there is also a pent-up demand with eight in ten (82%) saying they would like the option to pay tradespeople by card.

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Professionally trained and certified artisans, referred to here as "tradespeople, " are at work, describing and demonstrating their industries' roles in the earliest years of the American adolescence.

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