Price guides
How we check prices
Every price on a Local Pros guide is a figure a South African business publishes for its own work or products, copied as published, with the business’s name and the month we checked it. Right now that is 1,653 prices from 520 businesses across 99 trades, none older than 12 months.
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Step 1
We start from the business’s own price list
A figure comes from a South African business that does the work or sells the product and publishes its own prices: on its website, its price list or its shop page. Local pros who take requests through us count too, when they publish their prices or give them to us themselves.
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Step 2
We copy it as published
The figure goes in as the business states it, with what it covers: per metre, per slab or per job, supplied and installed or supply only, and whether VAT is included where the business says so. Where it applies (a city or a province) is kept with it.
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Step 3
We date it and name it
Every figure on a guide shows the business it comes from, where it applies and the month we checked it. Research done with software is checked against the business’s own page before any figure is used.
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Step 4
Old prices come off
A price over 12 months old comes off every page at the next build, without anyone having to remember it. A guide with no current figures says so and asks for a written quote instead.
What we never use
- Prices we made up, or worked out from someone else’s figures.
- Quote-matching and lead sites’ “typical cost” ranges, and our own sites.
- A figure with no named business behind it.
- One local pro’s private quote to us, with their name on it. What pros tell us in confidence only shows as one rounded range from three or more of them, as “the installers we work with”.
What a guide price is, and is not
It is what businesses ask, so you know roughly what to expect before you ask for a quote. It is not a quote: every pro sets their own price after seeing the job, and the length, the access, the ground and what is included all change it.
Spot a price that is wrong or out of date? Tell us and we check it against the business’s own list.
