pgrtimber.co.uk

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pgrtimber.co.uk

PGR Builders & Timber MerchantsBuy building supplies from Essex's leading independent builder's merchant, PGR Builders & Timber Merchants. Open a PGRpro account for trade prices.

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Truth score

Truth score 58 out of 100, Mixed truth signals. Customer satisfaction: not enough reviews to say

58/ 100

Mixed truth signals

Business details

Category: DIY tools, hardware and building materials
Places to visit: 2 storesChelmsford, Thorpe
Sells: Physical goods
Sells to: The public and businesses
Kind of seller: Sells its own goods or services
Licensed trade: No licence normally needed
Domain age: 23 years
Address: PGR Timber, Courtauld House, Courtauld Road, Essex, SS13 1RZ
Email address: customerservice@pgrtimber.co.uk
Phone number: +44 1268 334455
Contact page: pgrtimber.co.uk/customer-support
Website: pgrtimber.co.uk
Social media: Not found

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

No reviews we could readWe looked on SmartCustomer, G2, Capterra, Reviews.io, Feefo, Trustindex, ComplaintsBoard and ConsumerAffairs

Also found onTrustpilot

Customer satisfactionNot enough reviews to sayFrom independent reviews, weighed by their number

Summary

Is pgrtimber.co.uk legit and trustworthy? Truth score 58 out of 100, mixed truth signals: 8 of 10 public checks clear, 1 not found, 1 for information. Legitimacy confidence: mixed. Customer satisfaction: not enough reviews to say.

pgrtimber.co.uk's website address was registered 23 years ago. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find visitor traffic figures or a customer rating.

Positives

Its website address was registered 23 years ago.
No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Not found

Visitor traffic information was not found from our checks.
Reviews information was not found from our checks.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

What they offer

Buy building supplies from Essex's leading independent builder's merchant, PGR Builders & Timber Merchants. Open a PGRpro account for trade prices.

— pgrtimber.co.uk, in their own words

Where to find them

Places: 2 stores · 2 towns

Chelmsford1
Thorpe1

SourcesOpenStreetMap Its homepage

How to check if pgrtimber.co.uk is legit

To check if pgrtimber.co.uk is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about pgrtimber.co.uk; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.

Who they are

Company detailsRegistered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to handle personal data

Country

Where the company is based: Not stated with its address
Which countries the company serves: UK, US
Why we believe that: its address ends .uk, £ prices on its homepage, its delivery page says it ships to the US

Registration

Data protection registration (ICO): Registered, number ZB991822

Companies House register

ICO data-protection fee payer: Yes

SourcesICO register entry

Domain registrationIts website address was registered 23 years ago

Domain age: 23 years

SourcesICANN Lookup

Website detailsWe read 5 of its pages: contact, about, returns, delivery and terms

Company contact email is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes
Contact phone number found: +44 1268 334455
Contact page found: Yes
Hosting company: Google LLC

What its pages say

In their own words: “Whether you are trade or retail we will enjoy welcoming you to our branches. As Essex & Surrey's largest independent builders merchant, we pride ourselves on staff expertise and local knowledge, to get you building stress-free as quick as you can. PGR Timber was founded in 1984 as a family business operating out of a single unit in Laindon, Essex.”
How long you have to return: “You then have 14 days to return the goods to us at you own cost.”
Do returns cost anything: “Delivery Costs: Unless the item is faulty or incorrectly supplied, the buyer is responsible for return Delivery costs.”
Faulty or damaged items: “Delivery Costs: Unless the item is faulty or incorrectly supplied, the buyer is responsible for return Delivery costs.”
Delivery cost: “To provide the most efficient service, we divide our delivery areas into six zones, each with a specific lead time, minimum order requirement and delivery charge.”

SourcesHomepage Contact page About page Returns page Delivery page Terms page

Search engines and AILets in every search engine and AI tool

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search: Allowed by defaultGooglebot
Bing: Allowed by defaultBingbot

AI training

All allowed

OpenAI: Allowed by defaultGPTBot
Anthropic: Allowed by defaultClaudeBot
Google AI: Allowed by defaultGoogle-Extended
Apple AI: Allowed by defaultApplebot-Extended
Common Crawl: Allowed by defaultCCBot
Meta: Allowed by defaultmeta-externalagent
ByteDance (TikTok): Allowed by defaultBytespider

AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search: Allowed by defaultOAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT: Allowed by defaultChatGPT-User
Claude search: Allowed by defaultClaude-SearchBot
Claude: Allowed by defaultClaude-User
Perplexity: Allowed by defaultPerplexityBot

Sourcesrobots.txt

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaintsIt has a review page on Trustpilot

Platform	Rating	Reviews
Trustpilot	Unknown	Unknown

Visitor trafficNo data found from the sources checked.

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up pgrtimber.co.uk, by country, over the last 2 days.

Over 50%
5 to 50%
1 to 5%
0.2 to 1%
Under 0.2%
None seen

1United States100.0%

SourcesChrome UX Report Cloudflare Radar

Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 17 years ago

Website archive history: 17 years

SourcesFirst archived copy

Social presenceIts website links to no social media profiles

Found	Platform	Audience
	Facebook
	Instagram
	X.com
	LinkedIn
	YouTube
	TikTok

What data this site collects about you

Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Tag Manager

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Tag Manager: Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.

SourceIts homepage

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

SourcesGoogle Web Risk

Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

SourcesHave I Been Pwned

Domain and email securityIts email is only partly protected: mail forged in its name is reported but not blocked

Its email identifies its real senders, but mail forged in its name is not blocked

MX records: Yes
SPF record: Yes
DKIM key: Yes
DMARC record: Yes
DMARC policy: none

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No
Certificate issuer: Google Trust Services
Certificate type: DV
Certificate expires: 25 Jan 2027

Hosting

Nameservers: ns0.ukfast.net
ns1.ukfast.net
Address: 34.149.205.144

SourcesIts DNS records

Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
Points: 0 of 3 added

Sourcepgrtimber.co.uk's DNS records

Run pgrtimber.co.uk? Add the record and 3 points are added to its truth score.Prove you run this website

Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
Points: 0 of 1 added

SourceTruth Signal's own records

Run pgrtimber.co.uk? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score.Prove you run this website

Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
Points: 0 of 1 added

Sourcepgrtimber.co.uk/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score0 of 5

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