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Most homeowners delay this job for years and end up paying for emergency repairs a small annual service would have avoided. We pulled the numbers and the buying advice into one short read.
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Last updated27 Oct 2026
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"What a Tradelynx verified mark does not cover"
"Identity, insurance, accreditations against nine registers. Not a criminal-record check, not a site audit, not a guarantee."
TradelynxStandards · · 1 min read
"How to pause job offers: away, day off or busy"
"Three ways to stop job offers for exactly as long as you need, and no longer. None of them require you to explain."
TradelynxFor Tradespeople · · 1 min read
"Half-term home jobs and the trades you forget exist"
"Chimney sweep, pest control, loft insulation, blinds. Twenty-five trades you can post a job for, including the ones nobody lists."
TradelynxHow it works · · 1 min read
"Trader pricing: published, not promised"
"The trader pricing page has one rule: nothing on it is a future price. What it says today, and what it does not say."
TradelynxFor Tradespeople · · 1 min read
"What changed at Tradelynx in October 2026"
"The work board, the Passport's eight new features, the capabilities map and the smaller things that landed this month."
TradelynxProgress · · 1 min read
"Share your home record, then take it back"
"Share your home's record with a buyer, agent, lender or insurer, entry by entry, with a code that expires. Then withdraw it."
TradelynxPrivacy · · 1 min read
"Missed a call? On Tradelynx it becomes a lead"
"Every town and trade has a public line that rings verified tradespeople in turn. If nobody can answer, the call becomes a lead."
TradelynxFor Tradespeople · · 1 min read
"Clocks go back checklist: alarms, boiler, gutters"
"Alarms, boiler, gutters and the dates the Passport is already tracking for you. A short list for the last Sunday in October."
TradelynxProperty records · · 1 min read
"How Tradelynx decides which tradesperson gets a job"
"One job goes to one tradesperson at a time. Here is how Tradelynx decides who, and how you can check it was fair."
TradelynxHow it works · · 1 min read
The quiet work that keeps a record trustworthy
A property record is only worth having if it is right. Most of the work is not features, it is checks that fail loudly when something stops being true.
TradelynxHow we work · · 2 min read
What "verified" actually means here
Plenty of platforms call a trade verified. Here is exactly what we check, what we do not, and which of our checks come from the register rather than from us.
TradelynxStandards · · 2 min read
CIS deductions, recorded as you go
If you work under the Construction Industry Scheme, the twenty percent already taken off is money you have paid. Books records it at the time, not in January.
TradelynxFor Tradespeople · · 2 min read
We publish the things we got wrong
Our own issue registers disagreed with their own records in thirty-three places, and one was claiming a security control was missing when it had shipped in May.
TradelynxHow we work · · 2 min read
What a share link should not let a stranger do
We send links that open without a password. Last week we found that acting on one was rate-limited and reading one was not, which is the wrong way round.
TradelynxPrivacy · · 2 min read
Books is open to any tradesperson in Britain
You no longer need to be an approved Tradelynx trade, or anywhere near the South Coast, to use Books and your customer book. Sign up and start.
TradelynxFor Tradespeople · · 1 min read
A cancelled job is not a mark against you
How much new work a tradesperson is offered used to be reduced by cancellations. Our records cannot say who cancelled, so we stopped counting them.
TradelynxFor Tradespeople · · 2 min read
The same ninety days, on both sides
A tradesperson used to see your whole rating history while you could only see ninety days. Showing you a score is pointless if they act on something you cannot find.
TradelynxStandards · · 2 min read
A score from one person is not anonymous
We tell you ratings are anonymous. With one rating that promise is arithmetic, not privacy, so your average stays hidden until three people have given one.
TradelynxPrivacy · · 2 min read
Asking for three quotes is not a black mark
Tradespeople can rate the customers they work for. One of the reasons they could give has been removed, because worked out honestly it meant you did not book.
TradelynxStandards · · 2 min read
The enterprise workspace, in your pocket
The Tradelynx enterprise app is live on Google Play. What made it into the first release for landlords, agents and housing teams, and what deliberately did not.
TradelynxFeatures · · 1 min read
Tradesman expenses: what you can claim, and the receipts
The allowable expenses sole trader tradespeople under-claim, the records HMRC expects behind them, and one habit that keeps receipts with the numbers.
TradelynxFor Tradespeople · · 2 min read
A bookkeeping app for tradesmen: what to look for
Six things a sole trader tradesperson should check in a bookkeeping app before Making Tax Digital reaches them, and where Tradelynx Books stands on each.
TradelynxFor Tradespeople · · 2 min read
The boiler you fitted, from your phone
Logging what you installed on a job reached the trader app. Two minutes on the job screen, and the property's record carries your work with your name on it.
TradelynxFor Tradespeople · · 1 min read
The store listing is a page too
An app store description is an indexable page on a high-authority domain. Ours now leads with the category, and every line still restates a claim we can prove.
TradelynxProgress · · 1 min read
The gap assessment before the application
Joining the trade body for property logbooks means meeting its specification. We wrote down where we stand against it before asking to be let in.
TradelynxProperty records · · 1 min read
Two shells and a registry
A new admin screen rendered inside two frames. The fix was one line in a registry we already had, and the lesson was about copying patterns without their paperwork.
TradelynxProgress · · 1 min read
Documents that look like one company
Proposals, leave-behinds and readiness summaries come from one renderer. Making them look like Tradelynx meant changing one file, and that was the point.
TradelynxProgress · · 1 min read
What a logbook should say when it leaves something out
A shared property record that silently omits entries reads as broken. Ours now states the number it withheld, and the owner holds the switch for each one.
TradelynxProperty records · · 1 min read
We said the words
For months this site described a property record without using the phrase people search for. Now it does. Why it took so long, and what the page had to be true to.
TradelynxProgress · · 1 min read
How secure is code written with AI?
Our founder asked us the question every customer should ask. Here is the honest answer, including the parts that are not finished.
TradelynxProgress · · 1 min read
Thirteen pages, one escape hatch
A markup bug fixed on two pages a month ago was still alive on thirteen. A new automated check found them, then closed the door.
TradelynxProgress · · 1 min read
Your quote carries their trust
A quote holds your customer's contact details. Every display of them is now recorded, including to you. That record protects you.
TradelynxFor Tradespeople · · 1 min read
What the official registers say about your house
Your property record now shows which official registers we have checked and what each one contributed, including the honest nothing.
TradelynxProperty records · · 1 min read
A projection that refuses to exist
When we estimate how soon a town could open, the estimate states the evidence it rests on. Below five real observations, it declines to exist at all.
TradelynxFor Tradespeople · · 1 min read
The day the firewall mistook us for an attacker
Our hosting platform's automatic defences decided our own test suite was a bot attack and blocked it, site-wide. Real users never noticed. Here is what we learned.
TradelynxProgress · · 1 min read
Who was shown your data? Every surface now answers.
Every place the platform shows one person's information to another now records it, or states in the code exactly why it need not.
TradelynxProgress · · 1 min read
The answer pages, and why we wrote them
People increasingly ask an assistant before a search engine. We would rather the cited answer be accurate, even where accuracy does not favour us.
TradelynxProgress · · 1 min read
What we check before you can take work
Identity against a document and a live selfie, credentials against the public register, and insurance evidence. What each check is for, from your side.
TradelynxFor Tradespeople · · 1 min read
What a lead costs here, and why it is nothing
The lead-generation model charges you for introductions whether or not they turn into work. We built the opposite, and it only works because of how routing works.
TradelynxFor Tradespeople · · 1 min read
The towns where nobody is covering the trade
We now publish live coverage numbers for every town and trade we operate in, including the zeros. Here is why an empty cell is the best page we have.
TradelynxFor Tradespeople · · 1 min read
A month of publishing daily: what we learned
The journal turned out to be a forcing function. You cannot write honestly about a product every day without noticing what needs fixing.
TradelynxProgress · · 1 min read
Keeping a record of a house you rent out
Landlord record-keeping is usually built for the tax return. The record that protects you in a dispute is a different one, and most landlords do not have it.
TradelynxFor landlords · · 1 min read
Founding traders: what priority routing actually is
A real routing weight for a configured window, not a marketing phrase. Here is what it does and what it does not.
TradelynxFor trades · · 1 min read
The question we ask before adding any AI
Never whether it would be impressive. Whether a person is accountable for the outcome, and whether the input needed to be shared at all.
TradelynxHow we work · · 1 min read
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax: the deadline for sole traders, and what to have ready
When Making Tax Digital for Income Tax starts for sole traders, who it applies to first, what digital records you need to keep, and what Tradelynx Books does and does not do today.
Tradelynx teamFor Tradespeople · · 5 min
Day labour, without the grey areas
LabourLynx introduces people. We are honest about what an introducer is and is not responsible for, because the grey area is where people get hurt.
TradelynxLabourLynx · · 1 min read
Property DNA: a history, not a folder
A folder of documents tells you what was filed. A history tells you what happened, in order, and what it implies about what happens next.
TradelynxFeatures · · 1 min read
What a portfolio view should tell you
A spreadsheet tells you what you entered. A portfolio view should tell you what you did not, and be honest about how much it knows.
TradelynxFor landlords · · 1 min read
Sales-ready before you list
The gaps that slow a sale are knowable at the point of instruction. Most agents find them during conveyancing, when the chain has already formed.
TradelynxFor estate agents · · 1 min read
What Tradelynx costs a trader, in full
No lead fees, no required subscription, no commission on the job. The published rate on completed work is currently zero. Here is the whole thing.
TradelynxFor trades · · 1 min read
EPC coverage: what we check, and what we cannot
The register we search covers England and Wales. Scotland is separate with no official API, so we signpost rather than guess.
TradelynxFeatures · · 1 min read
Planned maintenance when the data is patchy
Every facilities team inherits a partial asset list. The useful question is not how to complete it, but how to work honestly from what exists.
TradelynxFor facilities management · · 1 min read
Who can see your property record
The short answer is nobody, until you share it. The longer answer is that every professional read is logged, and you can see the log.
TradelynxPrivacy · · 1 min read
Why unverified work is excluded from risk signals
An insurer asking about a property gets the verified history and nothing else. Including self-declared entries would make the signal worse, not richer.
TradelynxFor insurers · · 1 min read
Getting verified: what we check, and who checks it
There is a person at the end of it. Credential approval is never automatic, and where a public register exists we look at it.
TradelynxStandards · · 1 min read
The location data hidden in your photos
A photo of your boiler usually carries the coordinates of your house. We strip that before it is stored, and it is worth knowing why.
TradelynxPrivacy · · 1 min read
Renters' Rights readiness, for letting agents
The reforms change what has to be true about a property before it is let, and most of the work is proving things you already do.
TradelynxFor letting agents · · 1 min read
The insurance check that stops work
Public liability insurance is the one credential we treat as a hard gate. Without current evidence on file, a trader cannot accept new work.
TradelynxStandards · · 1 min read
What your Property Health score is measuring
It is a score out of 100, and it is marking what is known about your house rather than the house itself. The difference matters.
TradelynxFeatures · · 1 min read
One trader at a time, and why we do not broadcast
Most platforms send your job to everyone and let them fight over it. That is good for the platform and bad for both sides of the job.
TradelynxHow it works · · 1 min read
Why we grade evidence instead of saying verified
Verified is a word people use loosely. On a property record it should mean something specific, and it should be obvious when it does not apply.
TradelynxProperty records · · 1 min read
What we shipped, and one thing we got wrong
A fortnight of platform work, including a security control we built, deployed, and then found was protecting the wrong half of the product.
TradelynxProgress · · 2 min read
Awaab's Law: what the clock actually requires
Most compliance teams already hold the damp and mould data. What they lack is one place that knows what the statutory clock says for each property, today.
TradelynxFor housing associations · · 1 min read
The compliance dates that catch landlords out
Gas, electrical, energy, deposits, licensing. None of it is difficult on its own. All of it is easy to drop when you have a day job and two properties.
TradelynxFor landlords · · 1 min read
Material Information, and where listings get caught out
Trading Standards expect tenure, council tax, EPC and a growing list on every listing. The problem is rarely the rules. It is chasing vendors for each answer.
TradelynxFor estate agents · · 1 min read
Knowing what is due before it is due
Most home maintenance is predictable. A boiler serviced last October is due next October. The hard part is remembering in a year, so the record does it.
TradelynxFeatures · · 1 min read
Proof of your work, without more paperwork
Trades lose jobs to worse trades because the customer cannot tell them apart. The fix is evidence a stranger can check, built from work you have already done.
TradelynxFor trades · · 1 min read
What a service history is worth when you sell
Buyers ask what has been done to a house. A record that answers on the spot, with the evidence behind each entry, is worth more than a good memory.
TradelynxProperty records · · 2 min read
How to get more work as a tradesperson (without buying leads)
Practical, no-nonsense ways to win more of the jobs you quote for as a UK tradesperson, from referrals and reviews to your online presence, without handing your margin to lead-gen sites.
Tradelynx teamFor Tradespeople · · 7 min
Is Checkatrade worth it in 2026? An honest look for tradespeople
A balanced, factual look at whether Checkatrade is worth it for UK tradespeople in 2026: how it charges, who it suits, and what to weigh up before you commit.
Tradelynx teamFor Tradespeople · · 6 min
Going self-employed as a tradesperson: a UK starter guide
Thinking of going self-employed as a tradesperson in the UK? The practical steps: registering, insurance, pricing and getting your first customers, in plain English.
Tradelynx teamFor Tradespeople · · 8 min
Sole-trader tax & admin for UK trades: the plain-English guide
Self Assessment, the trading allowance, VAT, National Insurance and Making Tax Digital for UK sole-trader tradespeople: what you owe, when, and how to keep it simple. Figures as of June 2026.
Tradelynx teamFor Tradespeople · · 8 min
Property logbooks for tradespeople: what they are and why they matter
What a property logbook is, why UK home-buying reform is pushing them, and what it means for tradespeople: your recorded work becoming part of a home's permanent record.
Tradelynx teamFor Tradespeople · · 6 min
What the 2026 home-buying reforms mean for tradesmen
The UK's June 2026 home-buying and selling reforms push digital property logbooks and upfront information. Here's what that shift means for tradespeople, in plain English.
Tradelynx teamFor Tradespeople · · 6 min
Digital job records for trades: why they're worth the habit
Why keeping digital records of your work pays off for UK tradespeople: warranties, repeat work, disputes, and the property logbooks home-buying reform is pushing, and how to do it without the admin.
Tradelynx teamFor Tradespeople · · 5 min
See Tradelynx for yourself - a day in the life, no sign-up
You shouldn't have to register to find out whether a product is for you. So we rebuilt our demos to play out a real day - for homeowners, tradespeople and property teams - with Property DNA, Property Health and live data you can interact with. No account required.
Tradelynx TeamProduct · · 2 min readThe Trades Industry Doesn’t Have a Lead Problem. It Has a Trust Problem.
The trades industry doesn’t have a lead problem - it has a trust problem. Tradelynx is building the future of property operations by creating a connected record of maintenance, compliance and improvement history that stays with a property for life.
Tradelynx TeamNotes · · 2 min read
How much does a boiler service cost in 2026?
A straightforward breakdown of boiler service costs in the UK for 2026, what affects pricing, and how to avoid overpaying.
Tradelynx teamHeating · · 5 min
Do I need an EICR? Electrical safety certificates explained
What an EICR is, who needs one, how much it costs, and what happens if your property fails the inspection.
Tradelynx teamElectrical · · 6 min
How to find a reliable plumber without wasting time
Practical advice on finding a trustworthy plumber in the UK: what to look for, what to avoid, and how to shortcut the process.
Tradelynx teamPlumbing · · 6 min
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