Choose city and trade
Open the directory, choose a trade and a city, and read the matching cards. Each card is a name, an area and a phone number you can use yourself.
UK homeowners · 37 cities · Eight trades
Find a local tradesperson in your city
Search for a roofer, plumber, electrician or locksmith the way you already do — by city and trade. Open a list for London, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff, Brighton or another large UK city, read typical costs and grant rules, then contact the business yourself.
A combi boiler replacement is often quoted around £1,800–£3,500. Boiler cost note.
- No account
- Calculators stay in the browser
- You contact the business
- Sources and dates on cost and grant pages
What do you need first?
Pick a city and a trade — or start with costs, a grant or a calculator. Nothing is emailed on your behalf.
A defined path, not a marketplace
From a city name to a phone number
The site is built around four steps. Each one stays on a public page. There is no login and no job board sitting between you and the business.
Read costs and grants
Use the cost notes and grant explainers as a briefing. Figures carry a source and a date. They are not a quote from this site.
Run a calculator
Roof area, heating power, heat-pump savings, renovation budget and hourly-rate comparison all calculate on your device.
Contact the business
Profiles show name, area, phone and, where held, email, website, hours and public qualifications. You place the call.
Eight home-service trades
Pick the work you need done
Each trade opens its own list. Cost and grant notes sit beside it if you want a range before you phone.
Roofing
Roof repair, flat roofs, guttering and flashing — then a city list you can phone.
Plumbing & heating
Boiler repair, leaks and bathrooms. Look for Gas Safe on the profile.
Electrical
EICR, consumer units and rewires. NICEIC or NAPIT is shown only when it is on the profile.
Painting & decorating
Interior and exterior finishing, including prep work that changes the price.
Locksmith
Emergency lockouts, lock changes and BS 3621 upgrades. You still place the call.
Building & conversions
Extensions, loft conversions and larger refurbishment across the city lists.
Gardening
Gardens, paving and external maintenance rather than a general handyman listing.
Cleaning
End-of-tenancy and property-maintenance cleans with a published phone number.
37 UK cities
Start in a large UK city
Cities are grouped under England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. If you searched for a tradesperson in London, Manchester, Glasgow or Brighton, open that city first.
England 31 cities
London
Terraces, mansion blocks and conversion flats
Manchester
Red-brick terraces and neighbouring towns
Birmingham
Inter-war semis and Black Country spillover
Leeds
Stone terraces and West Yorkshire towns
Bristol
Hills, Georgian streets and nearby counties
Liverpool
Terrace stock and wider Merseyside
Sheffield
Hills, terrace rows and suburban estates
Newcastle
Tyneside flats and Tyne and Wear towns
Nottingham
Terrace rows and Nottinghamshire towns
Leicester
Victorian terraces and Leicestershire coverage
Bradford
Stone terraces and West Yorkshire towns
Coventry
Inter-war semis and Warwickshire towns
Milton Keynes
New-town estates and grid squares
Brighton
Victorian terraces, Hove and the seafront
Sunderland
Terrace rows and Tyne and Wear towns
Hull
Terrace stock and East Yorkshire towns
Plymouth
Hills, terrace rows and dockside streets
Wolverhampton
Black Country terrace stock
Derby
Terrace rows and Derbyshire towns
Stoke-on-Trent
Potteries terraces and six towns
Southampton
Terrace streets and Hampshire towns
Northampton
Terrace rows and Northamptonshire towns
Luton
Terrace streets and Bedfordshire towns
Portsmouth
Harbour-side streets and Southsea
York
Listed streets and neighbouring villages
Reading
Terrace streets and Berkshire towns
Oxford
Listed streets and conservation areas
Norwich
Terrace streets and Norfolk towns
Cambridge
College streets and terrace rows
Exeter
Terrace streets and Devon towns
Gloucester
Terrace streets and Cheltenham
Scotland 3 cities
Wales 2 cities
Northern Ireland 1 city
In-browser tools
Get a range before you pick up the phone
The tools use the figures you type. They do not create an account, store a floorplan or send the result to a tradesperson.
Roof area calculator
Turn lengths and pitches into an area range you can take to a roofer.
Heating power calculator
A rough kW sense-check for rooms and older UK housing stock.
Heat pump savings
A simple comparison you can read beside the Boiler Upgrade Scheme notes.
Renovation budget
Split a refurbishment into labour, materials and contingency bands.
Hourly rate comparison
Line up day rates against a quoted lump sum so the gap is visible.
Costs, grants and upkeep
Read the notes before you book
Guides are written for homeowners, not for selling a package. Price and policy pages name a source and a date. Maintenance pieces say when a DIY check stops and a qualified person should take over.
Costs
National bands for a new roof, a combi, a rewire, an extension and external wall insulation — then the pound figures some cards publish.
Grants
Boiler Upgrade Scheme amounts, ECO4 versus the closed GBIS checker, Gas Safe, Part P and building control.
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Straight answers
Questions homeowners ask first
How do I find a plumber or roofer near me?
Choose the city and the trade on the directory. You land on a filtered list with contact details. This site covers 37 large UK cities, including London, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff and Brighton — not every UK town.
Does this site send my job to tradespeople?
No. After you choose a city and trade you see listings with the phone number, email or website already published for that business. You make contact yourself.
Do I need an account?
No. Directory pages, cost notes, grant explainers and the five calculators open in the browser without registration.
Are the businesses checked or guaranteed?
This is a directory, not a certification scheme. Where a public qualification such as Gas Safe or NICEIC appears on the profile, it is shown there. The site does not vouch for the work, hold insurance for the tradesperson, or sell a badge.
Where do the listings come from?
Listings are compiled from Companies House records in relevant construction SICs, public qualification registers, trade-association directories and manual entry. Google Maps is not used as a source.
How should I read the cost figures?
Cost pages give national ranges and city differences with a named source and an update date. They are a sense-check before you phone someone, not a quote and not a price the site can honour.
What do the calculators do with my numbers?
The five tools run in your browser. They do not upload measurements or save a job file. Use the result as a range, then open a local listing if you want to speak to a business.
What you actually get
Three reasons to start here
City and trade, not a national dump
Choose a city and a trade to open that list. The filter still sits at the top; it just takes you to the matching URL, with the names and numbers already in the page.
Figures you can check
Cost and grant copy is written so you can follow the source. If a number cannot be evidenced, it does not go on the page.
Contact details in the open
The quote page is a filter: city plus trade, then the same public phone numbers and websites. Nobody here auctions your job.
A short visit
How a typical session runs
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Name the city and the trade
Use the finder above or open the directory and set a trade and a city. If you only know the symptom — a leak, a cold house, a missing key — start with plumbing, heating, electrical or locksmith.
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Check the money and the rules
Open a cost note for a range in pounds. If the job is a boiler or heat pump, read the grant page before you treat a headline figure as the whole bill.
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Measure once, on your device
If you have lengths, room sizes or a quote to test, use a calculator. The result stays in the tab.
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Open a profile and call
Read the service area, hours and any public qualification on the profile, then use the number or website printed there.
Most “plumber near me” searches still end on a name and a number. That is the hard part.
Homeowners in large UK cities usually need three things at once: someone who actually covers the area, a sense of whether a roof repair or boiler quote is in the right band, and a rule check when Gas Safe or the Boiler Upgrade Scheme applies. A page that only looks finished does not do that work.
UK Trades Directory keeps those three jobs on one site. Each city-and-trade combination has its own list. The guides carry sources. The tools stay in the browser. When you are ready, the profile gives you a number or a website — not a promise that this site will chase the tradesperson for you.
What a directory page is for
A useful listing is boring on purpose. It shows the business name, the trades it covers, the city or service area, a phone number, and the date and source of the record. Optional fields — website, email, hours, 24-hour cover, Gas Safe, NICEIC, NAPIT, TrustMark, FENSA, year started — appear only when they exist in the data.
The site does not invent star ratings, does not sell deletion of reviews, and does not mark businesses as “approved”. To change or take down a listing, email support@ahandyuk.com.
Costs, grants and tools sit beside the list, not above it
A cost page answers “what does this job usually cost in the UK?” with a national band and city differences. A grant page answers “does this scheme apply, and who is allowed to do the work?”. A guide answers “can I check this myself tonight?”. None of those pages replace a site visit or a written quote.
The five calculators are the same idea in numbers: roof area, heating power, heat-pump savings, renovation budget and hourly-rate comparison. Use them to walk into a call with a range, then open the directory for that trade.
Built for homeowners, not as a shop window for this operator
The public site talks to people who need a roofer in Manchester or a Gas Safe engineer in Bristol. It is not an agency brochure and it does not carry a strip of client websites in the footer. Business websites appear on that business’s own profile, using the business name or the words “Visit website”.