Last updated 21 October 2026
£24 a demolition lead, for a £350 shed or a £7,500 house.
Leads Do Work sells demolition leads at £24 each from a homeowner and £39 from a business, plus VAT. PromoSEO runs exclusive demolition campaigns from £500 a month, and Leads Everyday builds you a landing page and Google Ads without printing a price. Go straight to Google and a click on a demolition search costs £2.57 to £22.22.
Leads Do Work's price doesn't change with size. A shed at the bottom of a garden and a bungalow coming down for a rebuild cost you the same £24 to hear about, and in MyBuilder's own examples it is the shed that gets posted.
Straight off a marketplace
"Demolish and clear 8ft by 8ft6in wooden shed"
That is one of the 5 example leads on MyBuilder's sign-up page for demolition contractors. Bark prices a shed or small outbuilding at £200 to £500. Win one quote in 3 at £24 a lead and the shed hands 21% of its price to whoever sold you the lead.
Where we stand
We don't sell demolition leads. We help you get your own.
This guide is the honest version of what buying demolition leads costs, and who else gets them. What we do instead is build demolition firms a website that turns visits into calls, and run Google Ads in an account in your own name, so every lead that comes in is a customer who found you, and nobody else was sold it.
What you are buying
Two sheds, some decking and an asbestos garage roof.
MyBuilder shows 5 leads to a demolition contractor thinking of signing up. One is "Remove and dispose of wooden decking", about 4m by 4m. Two are timber sheds, one in East Preston to be priced "including taking away resulting waste". The other two are "White asbestos roof removal" on a 200 square metre garage. Nothing on the list is a building coming down whole.
Here is what Leads Do Work's two prices do to each job if you win one quote in 3. The homeowner price applies to most of these; the business price is for a lead from a company.
| Job | Typical UK price | Homeowner lead, £24 | Business lead, £39 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Take down a shed or small outbuilding | £200 to £500 | £72 a win, 21% of the job | £117 a win, 33% of the job |
| Remove a load-bearing wall | £1,200 to £2,000 | £72 a win, 5% of the job | £117 a win, 7% of the job |
| Remove a ground-floor chimney breast | £1,500 to £1,750 | £72 a win, 4% of the job | £117 a win, 7% of the job |
| Internal strip-out or small demolition | £500 to £3,000 | £72 a win, 4% of the job | £117 a win, 7% of the job |
| Demolish a single-storey garage | £1,000 to £3,000 | £72 a win, 4% of the job | £117 a win, 6% of the job |
| Demolish a small house (80 to 120m²) | £4,750 to £10,250 | £72 a win, 1% of the job | £117 a win, 2% of the job |
Shed and strip-out prices are Bark's price guidance; the wall, garage and house rows are from Checkatrade's demolition cost guide (September 2026); the chimney breast is MyJobQuote's ground-floor price (August 2026). Ranges are worked at their middle. Winning one quote in 3 is MyJobQuote's figure for its own trades; nobody publishes an independent UK figure. Lead prices are before VAT.
We'd want landing a customer to cost somewhere between 10 and 15 percent of the invoice. A garage clears that at 4%, and so do the wall and the chimney breast. The shed doesn't, at 21%, and from a business it is 33%.
If the lead is an asbestos roof
Two of MyBuilder's five were asbestos roofs. That is asbestos work first and demolition second, with its own sellers, rules and prices, all in our asbestos removal leads guide. Price the garage you can take down; pass on the roof you can't.
If you want tenders, not homeowners
This guide is about the homeowner and small business jobs that come through lead sellers. Planning databases and tender services for bigger demolition contracts are a different market, covered in our construction leads guide.
Your numbers
How much can a demolition lead cost before the job stops paying you?
Pick the demolition job, say how many of your quotes turn into work, and enter a seller's price per lead. It opens on a single-storey garage. Switch to the shed and then to the small house to see how far apart they are.
WHAT CAN YOU PAY FOR A DEMOLITION LEAD?
Pick a job, or type in what yours are worth
Starts on one in three, the figure MyJobQuote tells its own trades to expect. Put in yours.
You can pay up to about
£100
a lead, winning one in 3
- Healthy range, per won job
- £200 to £300
- Which per lead is
- £67 to £100
Put a seller's price in the last box and this will tell you what each won job would cost you.
That 10 to 15 percent band is a rule of thumb we use across every trade. Nobody has measured it.
Who sells them
Three firms sell demolition leads. Only one prints a price per lead.
Here are the three sellers with a demolition page, and the three marketplaces where homeowners post demolition jobs. Seller pages and prices are quoted from each firm's own website, and "Not stated" means the firm doesn't say.
| Seller | Price | Who else gets the lead | In their words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leads Do Work | £24 a lead + VAT (£39 from a business), £11 a week | 1 to 3 others, 5 at most | "no more than 5 competing" |
| PromoSEO | From £500 a month | Nobody in your area | "one contractor per area" |
| Leads Everyday | Not published | Nobody | "never shared with competitors" |
| MyBuilder | A fee when shortlisted, not published | Others who express interest | "Only pay a fee when shortlisted" |
| Bark | Credits, priced by job and area | Up to 5 professionals | "valid for 3 months" |
| Checkatrade | £30 a month, lead plans from £59 | Not stated | "Pick a plan that fits" |
Leads Do Work has one demolition row and no demolition pack
Its Connect price list has a single line, "Building work | Demolition", at £24 from a homeowner and £39 from a business, plus VAT and an £11 weekly fee. So a demolition job you quote is usually being quoted by 1 to 3other firms too, with a ceiling of 5, and returns are "manually reviewed". Unlike garage doors or asbestos, demolition has no lead page of its own on its site.
Its cheaper Smart Local packs list demolition twice: in Large Works, beside loft conversions, extensions and new builds, at £67.20 for 5 leads, and in its general building pack, beside handyman jobs, blinds and porches, at £37.20 for 5. Read the small print first: "Individual lead returns are not available under the Smart Local contract."
PromoSEO and Leads Everyday sell exclusivity, and buy the clicks
PromoSEO says it supplies "100 percent exclusive demolition leads" to "one contractor per area", from packages that "start at £500 per month", with cost per lead and pay per conversion options and a "make good policy for invalid or unqualified enquiries". Its job list runs from "shed removal" to "full site clearance", and it names Google Ads and Local Services Ads among its channels. Leads Everyday promises leads "never shared with competitors", a landing page for your business, Google Ads and a campaign live within 48 hours on average, with no price on the page. Both buy clicks in the same Google auction you can bid in yourself.
MyBuilder charges for the shortlist, not the lead
Expressing interest is usually free, and "If you're shortlisted, we charge you a fee for the customer's contact details". The fee is shown before you express interest and depends on the job's likely size, value and location, but MyBuilder publishes no table of them. Its sample leads are the decking, the sheds and the asbestos roofs above.
On Checkatrade you're listed among the builders
Checkatrade's London demolition search showed 155 firms on 1 October 2026, and all 15 listings on the first page put "Builder" first and "Demolition" second. A firm that only demolishes is quoted against builders who also knock down. Checkatrade prints an Approved tier at £30 a month and lead plans "from £59/mo", and Rated People leads now come through a Checkatrade membership. Bark lists "Demolition Specialists", prices leads in credits that last 3 months, and lets up to five professionals respond. What sharing a customer does to your quote is in the shared-lead trap.
Who doesn't sell them
Zapo and Lead Pronto sell leads to plenty of trades and have no demolition page; Zapo's nearest is house clearance. The National Federation of Demolition Contractors, which says it has brought together over 130 UK demolition contractors since 1941, runs a directory of its members rather than selling leads. If you're a member, put it on your website.
Everything here about Leads Do Work's contract comes from its own published terms and conditions, last read on 1 October 2026. Terms get revised, so check yours against the current version before you act on anything.
Rather have demolition leads that are yours alone?
That's what we do. We don't sell leads. We build the website and run the Google Ads that bring customers straight to you, in an ad account in your name that stays yours if you ever leave.
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Check my areaBuying the click yourself
The biggest demolition search isn't for demolition. It's for a chimney breast.
"demolition leads", the search a contractor would type to find a seller, gets about 10 searches a month and nobody bids on it. On the customer's side, "chimney breast removal" gets 1,900 searches a month at £8.66 a click, almost twice the 1,000 for "demolition contractors". The dearest clicks are commercial: "strip out contractors" at £22.22 and "house demolition" at £12.49. For the per-lead column we assume 7.33% of clicks get in touch, which is WordStream's conversion rate for home improvement search ads. It was measured on American campaigns, so read the last column as a guide.
| Search | Searches a month | Per click | Per lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| strip out contractors | 170 | £22.22 | £303 |
| house demolition | 260 | £12.49 | £170 |
| demolition near me | 260 | £11.32 | £154 |
| demolition contractors | 1,000 | £11.25 | £153 |
| demolition company | 590 | £8.93 | £122 |
| chimney breast removal | 1,900 | £8.66 | £118 |
| garage removal | 140 | £7.24 | £99 |
| demolition companies near me | 480 | £6.11 | £83 |
| garage demolition | 50 | £3.95 | £54 |
| conservatory removal | 170 | £3.72 | £51 |
| shed removal | 480 | £2.57 | £35 |
Google Ads data for the UK, pulled 1 October 2026. The click prices are Google's estimates from what other advertisers bid, so what you actually pay will land near them rather than on them.
So a lead off "chimney breast removal" costs about £118, for a ground-floor job MyJobQuote prices at £1,500 to £1,750. One off "garage removal" costs about £99 for a £1,000 to £3,000 garage, and one off "shed removal" about £35 for a shed worth £200 to £500. Every row costs more per lead than Leads Do Work's £24, at £35 to £303. What your own ads buy is the choice of which jobs you pay for:
- Bid on garages and chimney breasts, not every shed
- Leave the house searches to firms with the plant
- Your firm's name on the ad the customer taps
- Photos of your own jobs on the website they land on
- Clicks paid to Google, with nothing added
- An ad account that leaves with you
A chimney breast or a load-bearing wall at £1,200 to £2,000 is the same kind of job a builder chases, so expect builders in that auction. The rest of what a demolition firm is signing up to is in the Google Ads guide for tradesmen, and picking a monthly budget in how much to spend on Google Ads.
Google Local Services Ads
Google's UK category list has no demolition category. The nearest are "General contractor services" and "Junk removal services". PromoSEO names Local Services Ads among its demolition channels, so ask it which category your business would be listed under. How the listings work for trades that do qualify is in our Local Services Ads guide.
Before the first brick
Over 50 cubic metres, a garage you quoted today can't come down for six weeks.
Two rules use almost the same size line, and between them they decide when a quoted job can start. Section 80 of the Building Act 1984 says "No person shall begin a demolition to which this section applies" without first giving the council notice. The work then waits until the council serves its own notice or the relevant period, six weeks, runs out. Copies go to the occupier of any building next door and to the gas and electricity suppliers. Starting early is an offence with a fine up to level 4.
Section 80 doesn't apply to a building of not more than 1,750 cubic feet, about 49.6 cubic metres measured from outside, or to a conservatory, shed or prefabricated garage that is part of a bigger building, or to an internal part of a home that stays lived in. The government's planning guidance for England draws its line at 50 cubic metres too: under it, no planning application and no prior approval. Over it, outside a conservation area, demolition is permitted development, but you apply to the council with a written description, put up a site notice, and may start if the council hasn't replied in 28 days.
A flat-roofed single garage
3m by 6m and 2.5m high is 45 cubic metres from outside. Under both lines: no notice, no prior approval, start when the customer says yes.
A double, or a pitched roof
6m by 6m at the same height is 90 cubic metres before the roof. Over both lines: the six weeks' notice and the prior approval application.
In a conservation area
Under 50 cubic metres needs nothing, under 115 is permitted development, and anything bigger needs full planning permission. A listed building needs listed building consent instead.
None of this shows on a lead. "Demolish my garage" doesn't say how big it is or where it stands. Ask for the measurements before you put a start date in the quote, and if it's over the line, the date is at least six weeks away. Planning Portal adds that building control can set conditions in that time, including protection for the properties next door. These rules are England's (and, for the notice, Wales's); check locally anywhere else.
On the day
Even a shed needs a written plan before it comes down.
Regulation 20 of CDM 2015 says demolition "must be planned and carried out in such a manner as to prevent danger", and that "The arrangements for carrying out such demolition or dismantling must be recorded in writing before the demolition or dismantling work begins." There is no size limit on it. HSE says demolition is treated the same as any other construction work, and on a homeowner's job the client's CDM duties pass to the contractor, which is you. HSE also says the plan for a construction project "does not need to be complicated". A page with the method, the services cut off, the waste route and who does what is a sensible start.
When the garage shares a wall next door
The Party Wall etc. Act 1996 gives an owner the right "to expose a party wall or party structure hitherto enclosed subject to providing adequate weathering". Knocking down an attached garage can do exactly that, and the notice is due at least two months before the work. If the wall is shared, make sure the notice has gone before you book the job, and price the weathering.
When it's a chimney breast
The same section covers cutting away "any projecting chimney breast, jamb or flue" from a party wall. MyJobQuote prices the whole breast and stack at £3,000 to £3,500 (its chimney guide). If the breast is on a party wall, the notice comes before you start.
When the building is older than 2000
HSE says a house built before 2000 may contain asbestos, and tells commercial clients to hand their contractor a refurbishment or demolition survey. Who does the survey, and which asbestos jobs need a licence, is in our asbestos removal leads guide.
When the rubble goes in your van
A business that carries waste has to register as a waste carrier, and the customer is told to check the register. MyJobQuote notes that many garage quotes stop "to the slab", so say whether yours lifts the base. The carrier rules are in our waste removal leads guide, and the firms that bring the skip have a guide of their own.
Through the year
Garage removal searches peak in spring and dip at the end of the year.
None of the sellers mentions seasons on its demolition page, so here is the search data. UK searches for "garage removal" were highest in March, April and May at 210 a month and lowest in October and December at 90, about 2.3 times apart.
UK searches for "garage removal", by month
September 2025 to August 2026. Google Ads keyword data, rounded bands.
Spring searches, summer start dates
A garage over the 50 cubic metre line quoted in March, April and May can't start for six weeks. Put the notice in the quote and the customer plans around it.
Small numbers, read with care
At 90 to 210 searches a month, one year of data shows a shape, not a rule. Plan bids around it loosely.
Where the lead came from
Find out where a demolition lead was collected before you ring the customer.
The ICO puts the checking on you as the buyer. It wants checks in proportion to the risk, and a seller telling you the data is clean doesn't count as one. The lead generation firm Lead Pronto was fined £30,000 in November 2025 over texts sent on consent that named none of its clients. A demolition firm hasn't been named in an ICO case that we could find, but the home improvement ones are set out in our roofing leads guide.
Before you pay for demolition leads, ask:
- Which website or ad did the customer fill in?
- Does the consent name my business?
- How many other demolition firms get it?
- Is it a shed, a garage or a building?
- Can I return one that's asbestos work?
A shed that turns out to be an asbestos garage roof is far easier to argue back to the seller with those answers written down.
Which way to go
Buy leads for garages and walls. Don't let the sheds set the price.
Buy per lead if
- Garages are your bread and butter
- £24 is small beside £2,000
- You reply within the hour
- You can turn a site visit round fast
Think twice if
- Sheds are most of what you get
- Up to 5 firms can get the call
- The pack has no returns
- Nobody says which site it came from
Run your own if
- You want garages and chimney breasts
- You want the call to yourself
- You quote the notice up front
- The ad account is yours to take
Demolition pays on the garage, the wall and the chimney breast. A bought lead can start that, as long as you pay a price the garages carry and don't let the sheds set it. How leads are sold in every other trade is in our guide to trade leads. Weighing a directory listing instead? Read is Checkatrade worth it first.
Our sources
Where every demolition figure here came from.
One thing to know first: we sell websites and Google Ads to trades, so we have a side in this. So the sellers speak in their own words below, and where a bought demolition lead comes out cheaper than one from your own ads, the tables say so.
Seller pages and terms were read on 1 October 2026, MyBuilder's demolition sign-up page with them, and the UK search and click data came from Google Ads the same day. Job prices are from Checkatrade's demolition cost guide, Bark's demolition page and MyJobQuote. The notice and planning rules are from legislation.gov.uk, gov.uk and the Planning Portal; the written plan from CDM 2015 and HSE; party walls from the Party Wall etc. Act 1996; Google's categories from its Local Services Ads help; and lead consent from the ICO.
Questions demolition firms ask
Demolition leads, answered.
- How much do demolition leads cost in the UK?
- Leads Do Work publishes £24 a demolition lead from a homeowner and £39 from a business, plus VAT and an £11 weekly fee. Its fixed packs that include demolition start at £37.20 for 5 leads. PromoSEO's packages start at £500 a month. Leads Everyday, MyBuilder, Bark and Checkatrade don't publish a demolition lead price. A click on your own demolition ad costs £2.57 to £22.22.
- Are demolition leads exclusive?
- It depends who sells them. Leads Do Work's terms say 1 to 3 other firms usually get the same job, and never more than 5. PromoSEO says its leads go to one contractor per area, and Leads Everyday says they are never shared with competitors. On MyBuilder you are paying to be shortlisted, and Bark lets up to five professionals respond to one request.
- What jobs are behind a demolition lead?
- Mostly small ones. The 5 example leads on MyBuilder's demolition sign-up page were a decking removal, two timber sheds and two asbestos roofs on the same 200 square metre garage. Bark prices a shed at £200 to £500; Checkatrade prices a small house at £4,750 to £10,250. Leads Do Work charges £24 for either.
- Do I need to tell the council before demolishing a garage?
- Usually, unless it is small. Section 80 of the Building Act 1984 says nobody may start a demolition without giving the local authority notice, then waiting six weeks or until the council serves its own notice. It does not apply to a building of not more than 1,750 cubic feet, about 50 cubic metres measured outside, or to a conservatory, shed or prefabricated garage that is part of a larger building. Starting without notice can mean a fine up to level 4. This covers England and Wales.
- Does demolishing a garage need planning permission?
- In England, not under 50 cubic metres: government guidance says no application for planning permission or prior approval is needed. Above that, outside a conservation area, demolition is usually permitted development, but you must apply to the council for a decision on prior approval and put up a site notice, and you can start after 28 days if the council has not replied. In a conservation area, buildings of 115 cubic metres or more need planning permission. Listed buildings need listed building consent.
- Do I need a written plan to knock down a shed or garage?
- Yes. Regulation 20 of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 says the arrangements for any demolition or dismantling "must be recorded in writing before the demolition or dismantling work begins". On a domestic job the client's duties pass to the contractor, so that is you. HSE says the plan for a construction project does not need to be complicated.
- Can demolition firms use Google Local Services Ads in the UK?
- Not as demolition. Google's UK list of Local Services Ads categories has no demolition category. The nearest are General contractor services and Junk removal services. Ordinary Google search ads are open to demolition firms.
- When do people search for garage removal most?
- In the last 12 months, UK searches for "garage removal" peaked in March, April and May at 210 a month and were lowest in October and December at 90, about 2.3 times apart.
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