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Still Grafting exists for one reason: to keep tradespeople earning on the tools for as long as they choose to, not as long as their knees allow.
Muscle, joint and back problems are the leading cause of lost working days in UK construction. For an employee, that’s a sick note. For the self-employed, it’s a hole in the month’s income, and there are hundreds of thousands of self-employed tradespeople in this country quietly doing the maths on how many years their body has left.
The gear to change that maths exists. Drills have lost nearly a kilo in a decade. Knee protection has been transformed by materials that didn’t exist when most of us started. But all of it gets marketed either at 25-year-olds in branded hoodies or at facilities managers buying for warehouses. Nobody talks to the 52-year-old plumber buying for himself.
So that’s who this site is for.
Still Grafting is an independent UK gear guide site, built to give tradespeople research-led verdicts on the kit that matters to their working lives. Every guide is written by people who understand the trade, tested against the rules of the yard, and locked before any affiliate link goes in. A growing test bench of working tradespeople — recruited from the Site Notes list — puts real weeks on the kit before it gets a verdict.
Some links are affiliate links, meaning retailers like Screwfix, Toolstation and Amazon pay us a small commission when you buy through them, at no change to your price. The rules of the yard set out how we keep that honest: verdicts locked before links are added, failures reported, samples declared.
Got kit that deserves a test, a technique that saved your back, or a bone to pick with a verdict? Email [email protected]. Everything gets read and data requests get actioned, as promised in the privacy policy.
Site Notes, every Friday: one kit recommendation, one technique worth nicking, and the week’s best price drops across Screwfix, Toolstation and Amazon.
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