Stop loading the van for a job the weather was never going to let you finish.
Jersey Met tells you the weather. Graftable tells you whether you can work — for your trade, in your parish, before you leave the yard.
Weather is quietly the most expensive thing on the island no one sends you an invoice for.
A wasted trip out west, a rained-off pour, a crew stood down at 8am.
Where the £1,300 comes from
7.2 days lost × roughly £180 a day ≈ £1,300 a year
That's an average UK tradesman's day rate against the days a trade loses to weather in a year. Do it with your own number — a two-man crew on £200 a day each is closer to £2,900 — and it's rarely as small as people assume.
UK construction figures — CIOB, ONS and HSE; the 23mph is HSE and NFRC roofing guidance, not a legal limit. The £180 day rate is a round estimate, not a surveyed figure. No one publishes Jersey-specific numbers.
Three taps. One straight answer.
No fronts, no charts to squint at.
Pick your parish + trade
All 12 parishes, from St Ouen's Bay to Gorey harbour. Tell it you're roofing, rendering, pouring or groundworking — it matters.
Get a go / no-go
Not "17mph gusts, 20% rain" for you to work out. A plain verdict tuned to your trade — a roofer's no-go isn't a groundworker's.
Get the heads-up the night before
Make a free account and we'll ping you the evening before a no-go, so you shuffle the job instead of finding out on site.
A national app doesn't know the wind comes off the Atlantic at St Ouen.
Graftable does. It reads Jersey's own forecast, parish by parish, and knows an exposed coastal roof in the west catches gusts an inland job in Trinity never feels. That local read is the whole point — and it's why the lads pass it round.
Because the forecast isn't the question. “Can my lads work tomorrow?” is — and no weather app answers that one.
Jersey Met is excellent, and Graftable reads the same kind of data. The difference is who does the working-out.
A forecast, not a verdict
"18°C, 22mph gusts, 30% rain" is homework. You still have to know 22mph is fine for groundworks and off the roof.
It doesn't know your trade
The same Tuesday is a good day for a groundworker and a write-off for a painter. One forecast, 26 different answers — that's the bit we do.
It won't wake you up
A forecast sits there waiting to be checked. A no-go alert lands the evening before, while you can still move the job.
It only watches one place
You're not on one job, you're on four — different parishes, different trades, different days. A free account puts the lot on one screen for the whole work week, so you can see which job is off Thursday and which crew to move onto it. That's the bit that saves a morning.
Know before you load the van.
Today's answer is free and needs no account. The whole week's free too — just verify your email.
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