Check a trade in one place, not eight tabs.
Every listing pulls a trade's ratings from across the web onto a single profile — one score, every platform, and a plain-English label telling you exactly what's been checked. Free to search, no account, and nobody can pay to appear higher up.
No sign-up · Nothing to pay · No paid placement
Counted live from the directory as you loaded this page, rounded down.
Checking a trade is harder than it should be
You've got a name and a number. Working out whether to trust them means half an hour of tab-hopping.
The reviews are scattered
Some on Google, a few on Checkatrade, an old thread on Facebook. No single view, and no way to tell which ones still count.
Ratings don't compare
4.8 stars from 12 reviews, 9.1 out of 10 from 200, 96% from Facebook. Different scales, different scoring — impossible to line up.
You can't tell what's been checked
A polished website says nothing about insurance or ID. Most directories won't tell you what they verified — or what they were paid to show you.
Check a trade in about a minute
No account, no forms, and nothing that puts your phone number in front of six companies who'll ring you all week.
Say where you are
Type a postcode or town, pick a trade, and set how far you're willing for someone to travel.
Compare on one number
Every trade carries a 0–100 score built from all their platforms at once, so you're comparing like with like instead of stars against percentages.
Ring them yourself
Open the profile, read what's been checked, then call or message them direct. We're not in the middle of it and we don't take a cut.
Five stars, nine out of ten and 96% — as one number.
Every platform scores differently, which makes two trades genuinely hard to compare. So each rating gets converted onto the same 0–100 scale, then combined as a weighted average. The trade-specific platforms and Google carry the most weight, and those weights are set by us — they are never sold.
The scale is deliberately demanding. A middling star average doesn't come out looking respectable, because a trade sitting on 3.5 stars shouldn't read the same as one on 4.8. And a platform a trade is connected to but has no reviews on is skipped entirely rather than counted as a zero, so nobody is punished for having signed up somewhere quiet.
Two numbers matter when you read a profile, not one: the score, and how many reviews sit behind it. A 92 from nine reviews is a much softer claim than an 84 from four hundred — and the directory's own ranking treats it that way.
What the score is not: it isn't our opinion of anyone, and we don't hand-adjust it. It's arithmetic on public ratings, and if a trade's rating moves, so does it.
Miles, not guesswork.
Most directories match on the town name in a listing, which is why you get someone forty minutes away and miss the one round the corner. We look up your postcode properly and measure the real distance to every trade, so "within 10 miles" means within 10 miles.
What we don't do
Worth saying out loud, because most of it is standard practice everywhere else.
No sponsored results, no ads on the results page, no "featured" tier. A trade cannot pay us for position, and there is nothing in the product that would let them.
When you send a quote request it goes to that one trade. It isn't a lead we sell on, and you won't spend the next fortnight fielding calls from people you never contacted.
Search every listing and open every profile without an account, without an email address and without paying. There is no wall.
Every profile carries a badge with a fixed public definition, so you always know whether anyone has verified anything — including when the answer is "not yet".
Know what the badge on a profile means
Three states, three fixed definitions — and you can filter the whole directory by any of them.
Nobody's taken it over
Built from public sources. The ratings are real; the contact details may be stale.
The owner runs it
Someone has proved they're behind the business and keeps the details current.
Paperwork checked
Photo ID and public liability insurance, both seen and checked by hand, neither expired.
Questions before you call someone
What it costs you, what's been checked, and what happens to your details.
Does it cost anything to use?
No. Searching the directory and opening any profile is free, and you don't need an account to do either. There's nothing to sign up to and no point at which you're asked for a card.
Can I read the actual reviews?
Not on our pages, and we'd rather be straight about it than fake it. What a profile shows you is each platform's rating and how many reviews sit behind it, with a link through to that platform so you can read them where they were written. That way you're reading them in their original context, with whatever the platform shows about the reviewer, rather than a snippet we've re-typed.
Are these trades vetted?
Some can be, and the badge tells you which. "Vetted Pro" means we've been sent photo ID and a valid public liability insurance certificate and checked both by hand — it's free for a trade to do and it's the only badge that involves us looking at paperwork. A profile without that badge hasn't had it done, and we say so on the profile rather than leaving you to guess.
How do I know a good score isn't just a trade with three mates' reviews?
Look at the review count next to the score — it's always shown. And the ranking itself already accounts for this: a rating counts for more the more reviews stand behind it, so a single glowing five-star can't leapfrog a trade with a hundred solid ones. If a score looks high and the count is tiny, treat it as the thin evidence it is.
What happens when I send a quote request?
It goes to that one trade and appears in their dashboard. We don't forward it anywhere else, we don't sell it as a lead, and no other company gets your details from it. If the profile hasn't been claimed by its owner yet, the form is switched off — there'd be nobody reading it.
Why do some profiles look half-empty?
Because we build listings from public sources so the directory is useful from the start, rather than waiting for businesses to sign up. Those profiles carry the Unclaimed badge. Everything shown on them is real, but the owner hasn't been in to fill in the rest or confirm the details are current.
Something on a profile is wrong. Who do I tell?
Email hello@tradeyrated.com with the link and what's wrong and we'll correct or remove it. If it's your own business, claiming the listing lets you fix it yourself — that's free too.
Do you take a cut of the job?
No. We're not a marketplace and there's no booking, no payment and no commission going through us. You find the trade, you ring the trade, and whatever you agree is between the two of you.
Every rating and every check, in one place
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