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Plastering Trowel

Fail

Demand is soft, at -22.2% this quarter, so Plastering Trowel is a Fail.

Flapen Score
46
46 / 100
Ranks 1,352 of 2,225 DIY & Tools niches · −3 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£170K/yr137K searches / yr
90-day growth
-22.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
74%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 55 sellers

Flapen Score

Plastering Trowel against its category

The dotted line is the DIY & Tools average. Past it, Plastering Trowel is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

46Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Plastering Trowel market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Plastering Trowel 137K times last year and spent an estimated £170K. The top 5 brands take 90% of clicks. Flapen scores it 46 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 137K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -22.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £170K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
137K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-22.2%
Conversion, latest week
8.9%
Market size, estimated
£170Ka year
Peak month
November1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
plastering trowel72K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £14.04.

Listings sell for £14.04 on average, from £4.72 to £47.72. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 8K to 10K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £14.04 that is £4K to £7K a year per listing.

Average price
£14.04under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£4.72–£47.72
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
8K–10K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£4K–£7K
Returns
0.9%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

73% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #78 within Electrical. It carries 728 reviews at 4.49 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
73%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.1%
Average rank
#78in Electrical
Average rating
4.49 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
728per listing
Listings tracked
15

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 52 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
52 months

Products

Top Plastering Trowel products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 22, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 74% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£17K£34K£51K£68K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

55

Est. top-5 brand share

90%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

74%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

7%

  • Draper30%
  • Amtech28%
  • OX Tools20%
  • Rolson7%
  • Hilka5%
  • CCA3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 7%)

Demand

Plastering Trowel search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

4K3KSpike '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Plastering Trowel search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • plastering trowel72K/yr
  • plaster trowel15K/yr
  • plasterers trowel12K/yr
  • finishing trowel10K/yr
  • plastering trowels8K/yr
  • finishing trowels6K/yr
  • trowel plastering5K/yr
  • plastering trowel set6K/yr
  • plaster float3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plastering Trowel

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

23%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
53%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.9%of orders come back
“Poor quality control”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”53% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Plastering Trowel questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data