Answers for UK homeowners and sole traders

Questions people actually ask, answered so the answer is useful whether or not you ever use us. Where we cannot help, these pages say so.

Where can UK homeowners and sole traders get straight answers?

Five questions people actually ask, answered so the answer is useful whether or not you use Tradelynx: how to check a tradesperson yourself, what a quote should itemise, how to check flood risk for a postcode, what to hold a property maintenance app to, and when Making Tax Digital starts for sole traders. Where Tradelynx cannot help, the pages say so.

By Mike Fellows, Founder, Tradelynx · IT and service management backgroundPublished 16 September 2026Last reviewed 22 October 2026

How to find a reliable tradesperson in your area

The three checks that tell you something, and the ones that do not.

What a quote from a UK tradesperson should include

Six guides, one per trade, each saying whether we have anybody in it.

How to check the flood risk for your postcode

Free, in seconds, and why which nation you are in changes the answer.

Choosing a property maintenance app

What to hold them all to, including us.

Making Tax Digital for sole traders: dates and thresholds

Who it applies to and from when, what qualifying income means, and what Tradelynx Books does and does not do today.