The most recent Plumbing & Heating Service provider Index (PHMI) report, revealed in March, exhibits like-for-like This fall 2025 worth gross sales, adjusted to take away the influence of buying and selling days, have been +0.7% increased than the identical interval in 2024. Like-for-like quantity gross sales decreased by -3.3%. 

With no distinction in buying and selling days, the unadjusted whole worth gross sales have been additionally +0.7% increased, with volumes down -3.3% and costs up +4.1%. 

Mike Rigby, Managing Director of MRA Analysis which produces the report stated: “The 12 months 2025 began nicely however led to disappointment with enterprise and shopper spending paralysed by dire warnings in regards to the Autumn Funds. Within the occasion the Funds’s bark was worse than its chew, however delayed gross sales go away a gap. Poor climate additionally blighted constructing websites throughout the last weeks of the 12 months and into 2026.” 

Quarter-on-quarter, like-for-like worth gross sales for This fall have been +11.8% increased than Q3. Like-for-like quantity gross sales for October to December have been up +2.9% in comparison with July to September. With 4 much less buying and selling days in the newest interval, unadjusted whole worth gross sales have been +4.9% up, with volumes down -3.4% and costs up +8.6%. 

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Picture: PHMI This fall 2025 Highlights Infographic – Whole (unadjusted) worth gross sales (PHMI)