Appointed representative
This firm does not hold FCA authorisation of its own, and acts under a principal firm, which is legally responsible for its regulated business.
- Appointed for 4 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2022
- Accounts filed up to 31 March 2025
Responsible principal firm
United Carpets (Franchisor) Limited Reference number: 656323 View firm →What does this mean?
- An appointed representative (AR) can carry out regulated financial services, but is not directly authorised by the FCA. A principal firm holds the authorisation and is legally responsible for the AR's conduct.
- EP & BTW Flooring Limited (FRN 973779) is an AR of United Carpets (Franchisor) Limited (FRN 656323). When you use EP & BTW Flooring's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from EP & BTW Flooring, complaints and compensation usually follow the same rules as dealing with the principal, but this depends on the product and your circumstances.
- Before you proceed, confirm contact details match the official FCA register for both firms. Scammers sometimes clone legitimate AR names and FRNs but use fake phone numbers and websites.
Website, phone number and address
Compare these against whatever you were given. Scammers clone real firm names and reference numbers but use their own phone number and website, so a detail that does not match the register is the clearest warning sign there is.
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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
Unit 1A, Stanley Green Retail Park, Earl Road, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle, Greater Manchester, SK8 6PT, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 0161 485 7529 is, and the other firm that gives it
- Who else gives the postcode SK8 6PT
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- United Carpets Woodfloors and Beds Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through United Carpets (Franchisor) Limited, the principal firm responsible for this firm's regulated activity. FSCS cover and the Financial Ombudsman Service apply as they would to the principal.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
FCA disciplinary action and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action.
The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
- Company number
- 13950800 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 2 March 2022 (4 years old)
- Registered office
- Horizon House, 2 Whiting Street, Sheffield, S8 9QR, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Retail sale of carpets, rugs, wall and floor coverings in specialised stores (SIC 47530)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elliott Prest | Director | Jun 1979 | 2 Mar 2022 | None |
| Billy Thomas Walsh | Director | May 1993 | 18 Jul 2023 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 2 directors run no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£28.2k
−3.7% from £29.3k
Cash at bank
£90.8k
+14% from £79.5k
Employees (average)
3
Up 3 from 0
Owed within a year
£200k
+9.4% from £182k
Assets and liabilities
About these figures
- Turnover
- Money taken from sales in the year, before any costs.
- Profit before tax
- What was left after the year’s costs, before corporation tax. A minus figure is a loss.
- Net assets, or total equity
- Everything the company owns minus everything it owes. A minus figure means it owes more than it owns.
- Total assets and total liabilities
- Everything the company owns, and everything it owes, on the last day of the year. The gap between them is its net assets.
- Cash at bank
- Money in the company’s accounts on the last day of the year.
- Owed within a year, owed after a year
- Debts and bills due in the next twelve months, and those due later.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 13950800. Every figure is as filed, apart from total assets and total liabilities, which are added up from filed figures. Nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
EP & BTW Flooring’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
13 November 2024
- Billy Thomas Walsh became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
Companies House
2022
7 April 2022
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
2 March 2022
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Elliott Prest became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 7 events
- All 7 events in its history (4 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 2
Firms connected to EP & BTW Flooring
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with EP & BTW Flooring. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share its phone number
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: the same phone number (1), the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
Firms like EP & BTW Flooring
Other firms of the same type (retailer), nearest first.
In Cheadle
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- 1 connected firm, named, and who links them
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk