For trade suppliers
Plant hire: reach vetted trades near you
Hire decisions are made late and locally. A groundworker who needs a digger on Monday rings whoever they can get, and the yard they already know usually wins. Being in front of trades before that call is the whole game, and it is what a listing here is for.
List your hire businessListing is by application. We check who you are before anything goes live, and we talk you through what a listing costs before you commit to it.
Why Pinnacle exists
Cowboy builders have cost homeowners their savings and good tradespeople their reputation. Most platforms check the company rather than the person behind it, so the ones who turn up and do the work properly get tarred with the same brush.
Pinnacle vets the individual. Our founder, Graham Nash, has spent 25 years helping families rebuild after they were let down, more than 500 of them, sometimes out of his own pocket. That standard is why tradespeople join, and it is why the businesses listed beside them are checked too.
For you that matters in a practical way: every trade reading your listing has been vetted before they got here, on ID, insurance, qualifications and references, and homeowners running projects on Pinnacle see it too. It is a smaller audience than a directory you can buy your way into, and a considerably better qualified one.
Graham's storyWho you would reach
- Groundworkers and builders pricing excavation, foundations and drainage, who need to know what is available near the site.
- Roofers, renderers and external wall insulation firms who need access equipment for a few weeks at a time.
- Landscapers and driveway firms hiring dumpers, rollers and compactors by the day rather than owning them.
How a listing works
Being listed is being findable, not being sold for. Nobody is sent your details without asking for them.
Apply
Tell us what you supply, where you are and how far you deliver or travel. It takes a few minutes.
We check you
Your company registration, your trading history and anything you have told us you hold. A person does this, and rings you to go through it: anything you hold that the form has no box for, a licence, a registration, a scheme membership, is told to us on that call. We come back to you either way.
Your listing goes live
You appear in the directory under the categories you cover, to anyone searching near you.
They ask for your details
A vetted tradesperson, or a homeowner running a project here, reads your listing and asks for your contact details. That is the point at which you hear from them.
You take it from there
The conversation is yours. We do not quote for you, take the order, or add anything to what you charge.
What we check
Your company registration and trading history, the categories you cover, and any accreditations you hold. If you tell us you carry a scheme membership we record it and check it rather than taking it on trust.
Being checked is the point of the directory. A trade choosing a supplier here knows somebody looked, which is not something they can assume anywhere else, and it is why we would rather list fewer businesses properly than many on trust.
More about our checksWhat is coming
We record how many times somebody asked for a listed business's details, because that is the figure that means something rather than how many times a page happened to show you.
We are building a view for suppliers that will show you your own. It is not live yet, and we will tell you when it is rather than counting it as a reason to join today.
Homeowners running projects can search the directory too.
Questions trade suppliers ask
Will you send me hire enquiries?
No. Vetted tradespeople find your listing themselves and contact you, and so do homeowners running projects here. We do not route enquiries, take a booking or stand between you and the customer.
How do you decide who sees my listing?
Whoever is searching your category, ordered by how near you are to them. Someone hiring in your area sees you before a yard two counties away.
Can I list operated as well as self drive hire?
Tick the category either way and say which you offer on your website, which your listing links to. The trade reading it needs to know before they call, because it changes who they need on site that week.
Who is searching for plant hire?
Vetted tradespeople, mostly groundworkers, builders and landscapers pricing or starting a job near you, and the occasional homeowner running their own project here.
Other trade suppliers we list
Ready?
Apply, and we will take it from there.
Applying starts the checks. It is not an instant yes, we tell you where you stand either way, and nothing goes live until you have agreed to it.