About BuildRush

BuildRush is a UK-wide marketplace for urgent home repairs, built for the moments when something breaks and waiting is not an option. A burst pipe at midnight, a broken window before a storm, electrics that trip every time you switch the kettle on — these are not jobs you can schedule for next month. BuildRush flips the usual tradesperson marketplace on its head: instead of posting a job and waiting days for quotes, the homeowner sets a fixed price they can afford and a timeframe they need, and subscribed tradespeople across the country see the job the moment it goes live and reply directly with when they can arrive.

Every urgent job on BuildRush carries a 48-hour promise: if you mark it urgent, we expect it matched and done within two days. Homeowners post in three quick steps — the first job is free, then it's a flat £4 a post — and get introduced directly to the tradesperson they choose, no middlemen, no call centres, no haggling. Tradespeople, meanwhile, subscribe to the jobs feed for a simple annual or monthly-instalment membership and get email alerts the instant a paid job in their trade is posted, so the work comes to them instead of the other way round.

BuildRush is built and run by a small independent UK team who were tired of watching homeowners overpay for emergencies and good tradespeople pay heavily for leads they never won. We keep the model simple and the pricing honest: one small fee per job for customers, one membership for tradespeople, and nothing hidden in between.