Finished early? Fill the rest of the day.

Why gaps happen, and what they cost

Most plumbers aren't short of work. They're short of work at the right time and in the right place. A bathroom goes in quicker than planned. A customer cancels the night before. The wrong fittings turn up, or nobody's in to open the door. Suddenly there's an afternoon with nothing in it.

That time is hard to sell. Ringing round for something nearby takes longer than the gap itself, and the jobs people post elsewhere are usually for next week, across town, or already taken. So the afternoon goes, and it doesn't come back.

Fill My Day is built for exactly that moment: a plumber who is free now, and a small job close by that someone needs doing.

How Fill My Day fills them

1. Say when you're free

   Set a window around the day you already have: free from, free until, where you're starting and how far you'll go.

2. Get sent jobs that fit

   Only jobs inside your time, your distance and the kind of work you do reach your phone.

3. Price it and go

   Reply with your price. If the customer accepts, agree the details in the app and fill the day.

Read how it works in detail.

What you'll be sent, and what you won't

• Only while your window is open. When it ends, the jobs stop. Nobody rings at nine at night about an afternoon that finished last week.
• Only inside your distance. You set how far you'll travel from where you're starting.
• Only your kind of work. You say what you do, and matching follows it. A tap fitter isn't sent a commercial heating job.
• Nothing you have to take. You price the jobs you want and ignore or decline the rest. Nothing is booked without you.

Availability first, not a directory listing

Most platforms are directories. A customer searches, gets a list of names and rings round, whether or not you're free. Fill My Day works the other way round.

For how the paid platforms charge, side by side, read apps for plumbers to find work, compared.

What customers see

When you reply to a job, the customer sees your price next to your profile. That shows your trade and the work you do, photos of past jobs, your reviews, how many jobs you've completed on Fill My Day, and that your documents have been checked.

Clear photos of finished work and an accurate list of what you do make the biggest difference. Customers choose the plumber who looks right for their job, not just the cheapest.

Who it's for

• Sole traders and small firms who are busy most of the time but lose afternoons to early finishes and cancellations.
• Plumbers building a local name who want more small jobs close to home, with reviews to show for them.
• Anyone who hates paying for leads that go nowhere.

It isn't meant to replace your main work. It's for the gaps around it.

Getting on the platform

You sign up, upload your qualifications and proof of public liability insurance, and a person checks them before you can reply to jobs. Anyone offering gas work must be Gas Safe registered. Being on Fill My Day is meant to mean something to customers. Read how we check plumbers.

Bristol first

We're launching in Bristol, with plumbers only, so jobs and plumbers are close enough together for it to work well from day one. If you work in and around Bristol, you'll be among the first on it. Read about plumbing work in Bristol, or the Bristol launch.