Travis Perkins no longer requires its TP Hire customers to have a trade account, having set up a new 鈥榩ay-as-you-go鈥� service.
There are more than 300 TP Hire branches across the UK in Travis Perkins stores. Customers can hire from one branch and return items to another, if they wish.
The expansion will see customers able to access the hire offering by simply providing two forms of identification 鈥� a photo ID, such as a driving licence or a passport, and a recent utility bill or bank statement.
TP Hire managing director Ian Sharman-Jones said: 鈥淲e have been working on this exciting development for some time and it鈥檚 fantastic we are now ready to roll it out to customers nationwide. For those customers who currently don鈥檛 have a Travis Perkins account, this is game-changing and means that all customers will now have full and complete access to our entire Hire product range.
鈥淭hat includes over 70,000 products and this new offering allows us to service and assist even more Travis Perkins customers, who previously weren't able to have access to hire the items they need to complete their project without having a trade account.鈥�
The company added that while DIY customers can now hire without a trade account, the target market remains primarily those trade customers who do not have an account.