If there’s any profession that gets to be the brunt of bad jokes and painful comedy skits, it’s builders. Just like used car salesmen, builders have a (mostly undeserved) bad reputation. When people think of builders, they think of lazy, unreliable rip-off merchants that will charge you a fortune, use dodgy materials, leave your home a mess, and take so long to finish the job that you end up shivering your way through winter with a hole in the roof.