I agree that most Eastern Euro tradesmen are a bit dodgy, but not all of them. I've found myself a really good Serbian Gas Central Heating Engineer. He's fixed various things on my gas boiler and water cylinder during the last 3 years and is a damn site cheaper than most of the larger firms. He's realiable too, if he says he will be here on Monday at 5.00 PM he is here then, not 3 weeks later.

Having said that, he has lived in the Uk since he was 9 as he left Croatia in the early 90's during the war, so he's done all of his studying in the Uk and has been trained to UK standards.