{"id":345,"date":"2019-01-16T10:37:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T10:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hamuch.com\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2019-03-15T17:08:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:08:13","slug":"builders-and-plumbers-in-the-southeast-25-times-more-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamuch.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/16\/builders-and-plumbers-in-the-southeast-25-times-more-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Builders and Plumbers in the southeast 25 times more expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>National:\u00a0Tradesmen in the southeast up to 25-times more expensive\u00a0says\u00a0pricing website<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Regional:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamuch.com\/plumber\/near\/surrey\">Surrey has the UK\u2019s most expensive tradesmen<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Regional \/ local:\u00a0The UK\u2019s cheapest tradesmen are in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamuch.com\/heating-engineer\/near\/birmingham\">Birmingham<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamuch.com\/builder\/near\/nottingham\">Nottingham<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamuch.com\/electrician\/near\/nuneaton\">Nuneaton <\/a>\/ Blackwood \/ Doncaster<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>North-south divide in builder costs&nbsp;as much as&nbsp;\u00a3240-per-hour<\/li><li>Surrey and London most expensive for tradesmen\/women<\/li><li>Midlands offers best value to homeowners,&nbsp;according to HaMuch.com<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A new&nbsp;data&nbsp;survey by building work pricing site&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamuch.com\/\">HaMuch.com<\/a>&nbsp;has revealed the stark differences between the southeast and the rest of the UK&nbsp;when it comes to the cost of building work.&nbsp;The divide appears to be drawn at Watford Gap, with the Midlands offering best value, whilst Surrey and London have the most expensive tradesmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0spread\u00a0of prices for common household jobs\u00a0across the recently-launched website\u2019s 12,000 tradesmen\u00a0ranged from \u00a310-per-hour\u00a0to an incredible \u00a3250-per-hour, with builders in Surrey charging as much as 25-times more than their counterparts in Nottingham.\u00a0Plumbers in Surrey also charged an eye-watering 20-times more than those in\u00a0Caerphilly.\u00a0Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamuch.com\/electrician\/near\/london\">hiring an electrician in London<\/a> could cost you \u00a3250-per-hour, compared with a bargain basement \u00a310-per-hour in Birmingham.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;startling&nbsp;prices&nbsp;were&nbsp;uncovered by the data processing team for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamuch.com\/\">https:\/\/www.hamuch.com<\/a>&nbsp;as part of their efforts to&nbsp;ensure that homeowners know the cost of jobs up-front.&nbsp;The website lists&nbsp;a labour cost for each tradesman\/tradeswoman listed on the service and allows&nbsp;homeowners to search trades in their&nbsp;area by cost, so that&nbsp;no one busts&nbsp;their&nbsp;budget building an extension to having&nbsp;a&nbsp;boiler serviced.&nbsp;So if you are searching &#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamuch.com\/heating-engineer\/\">heating engineer near me<\/a> &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe knew there was a wide disparity in charges between the southeast and the rest of the UK, but we were shocked just how wide&nbsp;that was\u201d, says&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamuch.com\/\">HaMuch.com<\/a>&nbsp;founder Tarquin Purdie. \u201cThe prices show that the market can take a lot in the southeast, whereas rates in&nbsp;parts of&nbsp;the Midlands&nbsp;and north&nbsp;may not have increased for several years.&nbsp;It is certainly something that will make the industry and even government ministers sit up and pay attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to&nbsp;making sure&nbsp;homeowners and renters alike know the cost of a job before they even approach a plumber or a painter.&nbsp;Not all builders and trades will like it, but we think that the best are only too happy to be honest and up-front on costs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most inexpensive painter and decorator and carpenter both charged \u00a310-per-hour and were in Nuneaton and Doncaster respectively. The most costly were in Brighton and Islington, at \u00a3150 and \u00a3100.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The full breakdown of low and high prices is as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Building work:<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Cheapest, \u00a310-per-hour in Nottingham, East Midlands. Most costly, \u00a3250-per-hour in Camberley, Surrey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Electricians:&nbsp;<\/strong>Cheapest, \u00a310-per-hour in Birmingham, West Midlands. Most costly, \u00a3250 in Edgware, London.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Plumbing: &nbsp;<\/strong>Cheapest, \u00a310-per-hour in Blackwood, Caerphilly. Most costly, \u00a3200-per-hour in Addlestone, Surrey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Painting and decorating:&nbsp;<\/strong>Cheapest, \u00a310-per-hour in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Most costly, \u00a3150-per-hour in Brighton, East Sussex.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Carpenters:&nbsp;<\/strong>Cheapest, \u00a310-per-hour in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Most costly, \u00a3100 in Islington, London.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National:\u00a0Tradesmen in the southeast up to 25-times more expensive\u00a0says\u00a0pricing website Regional:\u00a0Surrey has the UK\u2019s most expensive tradesmen Regional \/ local:\u00a0The UK\u2019s cheapest tradesmen are in Birmingham \/ Nottingham \/ Nuneaton \/ Blackwood \/ Doncaster North-south divide in builder costs&nbsp;as much as&nbsp;\u00a3240-per-hour Surrey and London most expensive for tradesmen\/women Midlands offers best value to homeowners,&nbsp;according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,4,3,14,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-builder","category-carpenter-joiner","category-electrican","category-heating-engineer","category-plasterer","category-plumber"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hamuch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1251517D-6414-4287-807A-59D14F3EA130.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamuch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamuch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamuch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamuch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamuch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hamuch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/hamuch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamuch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamuch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamuch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamuch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}