Sources only · call out charges · read 7 September 2026
£80 to £120
what MyBuilder says a plumber charges to turn up on a weekday, while Checkatrade puts the usual charge at around £110, and nights, weekends and holidays cost more.
Two UK price guides publish what a plumber charges to turn up, and one band is 5 times as wide as the other.
Checkatrade, plumber call out charges says £100 to £120.
MyBuilder, plumber call out fees says £50 to £150.
Both are describing the same emergency visit.
Neither is wrong.
This page publishes no call out figure of its own, and the section below it says why that is a limit of the data rather than a gap in the page.
Every other cost page on this site multiplies a published day rate by a published job length.
A call out has no length, so there is nothing here to multiply and no figure of ours on this page at all.
A day rate times a job length is a job price, and that is how the plastering and tiling pages here are built.
A call out has no length.
Nothing here multiplies.
So this page does what the London page does and prints what other people publish, with the date and the address of each one.
That is the whole method here.
Every figure as its guide prints it, on the date that guide states, with the hours it applies to in its own column.
Nothing here is averaged and no range has become a midpoint.
Every row is one guide's.
| Guide | What it prices | Figure | When it applies |
|---|---|---|---|
| MyBuilder, plumber call out fees | Call out fee, weekday daytime | £80 to £120 | Standard hours |
| MyBuilder, plumber call out fees | Call out fee, weekend | £120 to £150 | Emergency or out of hours |
| MyBuilder, plumber call out fees | Call out fee, late night | £100 to £140 | Emergency or out of hours |
| MyBuilder, plumber call out fees | Call out fee, a public holiday | £130 to £180 | Emergency or out of hours |
| MyBuilder, plumber call out fees | The average plumber call out fee | around £50 | Not qualified either way |
| MyBuilder, plumber call out fees | Call out fees, often charged for emergency or out of hours visits | £70 to £160 | Emergency or out of hours |
| MyBuilder, plumber call out fees | An emergency plumber call out fee | £50 to £150 | Emergency or out of hours |
| Checkatrade, plumber call out charges | Emergency call out fee, low, high and average | £100 to £120, average £110 | Emergency or out of hours |
| Checkatrade, plumber costs | Plumber call out charges, usually around | £110 | Not qualified either way |
| Checkatrade, plumber costs | Emergency plumber cost per hour | £75 to £150, average £100 | Emergency or out of hours |
HaMuch was attempted twice on this date and returned an empty document both times, so it is recorded as unread rather than as publishing nothing. It publishes a plumber call out rate that this page would otherwise carry.
Your next step
For the plumber setting a call out charge, the next step is the day rate that charge has to protect.
Your costs go into the Rate Sorted calculator, already set to plumber, and your own plumber day rate comes back, ready to set a call out charge against.
There is no dataset here to download, because every figure on this page belongs to the guide beside it.
The comparison and the 5 times width computed from it are free to cite with a credit and a link back, under CC BY 4.0, and each guide's own figures remain that guide's.
MyBuilder, plumber call out fees publishes a band 5 times as wide as Checkatrade, plumber call out charges does.
It also contains the narrower band completely, so the two do not contradict each other so much as disagree about how well the figure is known.
Checkatrade, plumber call out charges
£100 to £120
MyBuilder, plumber call out fees
£50 to £150
Four times across the two guides, and all four are printed rather than tidied away.
| Guide | It says | And it says |
|---|---|---|
| MyBuilder, plumber call out fees | the average plumber call out fee is around £50 | call out fees typically range from £70 to £160 |
| MyBuilder, plumber call out fees | an emergency plumber call out is £50 to £150 | a public holiday call out is £130 to £180 |
| MyBuilder, plumber call out fees | an emergency plumber call out starts at £50 | a weekday daytime call out starts at £80 |
| Checkatrade, plumber costs | the table row reads Emergency plumber call out fee, £100 to £120, average £110 | the prose reads plumber call out charges are usually around £110 |
Three statements, in each guide's own words.
Read what they do not say.
MyBuilder, plumber call out fees
A plumber call out fee is a fixed charge imposed by plumbing services when a plumber is requested to visit your premises.
This fee typically covers the costs associated with the travel time, fuel, and the initial assessment of the plumbing issue, even if no repairs are conducted.
Checkatrade, plumber call out charges
There may also be a minimum one-hour charge for any emergency call-out work, so make sure you confirm that before hiring a plumber.
Checkatrade, plumber costs
Most professionals will have a minimum charge, usually the cost of an hour's work.
This site publishes a day rate for 17 trades and only 1 of them has a readable published call out figure.
An empty row here is a finding rather than a gap to fill.
It does not mean nobody charges one, and where an address failed rather than published nothing the row says which of the two happened, because a page that could not be read and a page that carries no figure are different facts about a source.
| Trade | Why there is nothing here |
|---|---|
| Painter and decorator | No guide read on this date publishes a call out fee for this trade, which is not the same as saying one is never charged. |
| Carpenter and joiner | No guide read on this date publishes a call out fee for this trade, which is not the same as saying one is never charged. |
| Groundworker | No guide read on this date publishes a call out fee for this trade, which is not the same as saying one is never charged. |
| Drainage Engineer | No guide read on this date publishes a call out fee for this trade, which is not the same as saying one is never charged. |
| Decorative Plasterer | No guide read on this date publishes a call out fee for this trade, which is not the same as saying one is never charged. |
| Cladding Installer | No guide read on this date publishes a call out fee for this trade, which is not the same as saying one is never charged. |
| Suspended Ceiling Installer | No guide read on this date publishes a call out fee for this trade, which is not the same as saying one is never charged. |
| Electrician | Both Checkatrade addresses for an electrician call out charge answered with its page not found screen on this date, so this is unread rather than unpublished, and no figure is shown for it. |
| Plasterer | No guide read on this date publishes a call out fee for this trade, which is not the same as saying one is never charged. |
| Tiler | No guide read on this date publishes a call out fee for this trade, which is not the same as saying one is never charged. |
| Roofer | No guide read on this date publishes a call out fee for this trade, which is not the same as saying one is never charged. |
| General Builder | No guide read on this date publishes a call out fee for this trade, which is not the same as saying one is never charged. |
| Bricklayer | No guide read on this date publishes a call out fee for this trade, which is not the same as saying one is never charged. |
| General Labourer | No guide read on this date publishes a call out fee for this trade, which is not the same as saying one is never charged. |
| Gas and Heating Engineer | No guide read on this date publishes a gas engineer call out fee. Checkatrade prices repairing a gas pipe as a job at £165, which is a job and not a charge for turning up. |
| Handyman | No guide read on this date publishes a call out fee for this trade, which is not the same as saying one is never charged. |
The same answers the structured data on this page gives a search engine, word for word.
Checkatrade, plumber call out charges publishes £100 to £120 for an emergency call out and MyBuilder, plumber call out fees publishes £50 to £150.
The second band is 5 times as wide as the first and contains it entirely.
The hour of the day is what moves it: the wider guide prices a weekday daytime visit at £80 to £120 and a public holiday at £130 to £180.
This site publishes no call out figure of its own, because a call out has no length and there is nothing here to multiply.
MyBuilder, plumber call out fees says it covers travel time, fuel and the initial assessment, even if no repairs are done.
Neither guide read here says how long a call out fee buys you, and one of them only mentions a minimum hour and hedges it.
So the length of a call out is not a figure anybody publishes.
This page will not invent one.
Of the 17 trades this site publishes a day rate for, 1 has a readable published call out figure and 16 have none.
Checkatrade also says plumbers often charge their hourly or daily rate instead of a fixed call out fee unless it is an emergency, while MyBuilder says a fee for assessing the issue is common.
Both statements are printed here.
Neither is resolved into the other, because this site has no way of knowing which of two named guides is describing the trade more accurately and would be guessing if it picked.
No, and the reason is recorded rather than left blank.
Both Checkatrade addresses for an electrician call out charge answered with its page not found screen on 7 September 2026.
That makes it unread rather than unpublished.
This site does not treat those as one thing.