Built for the trade
A website for tradesmen that gets the phone ringing
Most people searching for a tradesman are on a phone, mid-problem, deciding fast between the two or three results in front of them. A tradesman's site has one real job: say clearly what the business does and where, and make it effortless to call or send a message, all in the first few seconds someone spends on the page.
That is a different brief to a typical small-business website. It does not need a blog, a long story about the company's history, or five paragraphs before the point. It needs to be fast, clear on a small screen, and built around the phone number and the enquiry form doing their job.
What actually gets a tradesman's phone to ring
A phone number that works as a tap-to-call link, visible without scrolling, on every page, not buried on a contact page three clicks deep. A clear statement of the trade and the area covered, in plain language, above anything else on the home page. And a mobile-first layout, because most visitors are reading this on a phone standing in front of the problem, not on a laptop doing considered research.
The site also earns more from being specific than from sounding impressive: naming the actual services covered, the actual area served, and real evidence of past work, where it exists, does more to get an enquiry moving than polished language with nothing concrete behind it.
Priced the way a tradesman actually buys
Two fixed prices: £250 for a five-page site, £400 for a ten-page site, both including the full build standard. No hourly quote that turns into an open-ended bill, and no discovery process that drags on for weeks before anything gets built. A tradesman's time is worth money on the tools, not in meetings about a website.
Pricing
Two fixed prices, one add-on
Five-page site
£250 one-off
Home, about, services, contact and one more page. Suits a business with one clear offer.
Ten-page site
£400 one-off
The same build standard with room for more: individual service pages, a proper FAQ page, more to show a visitor.
Something bigger
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More pages, a shop, online bookings, a customer portal, or anything that needs its own logins and integrations. Contact us and we quote for what is actually needed.
Built for the trade
Questions
- How fast can I get a site live
- You get a working preview to look at in days, not weeks, because the groundwork is built with an AI-assisted system rather than starting from a blank page. From there it is one round of changes, then live.
- Do you understand what a trade business actually needs from a site
- Yes, see the dedicated pages for individual trades, plumbers, electricians, roofers, builders and more, each written for what that specific trade's customers look for. This page covers the general case; those cover the specifics.
- I already have a Facebook page, do I still need a website
- A Facebook page is not a substitute for a proper site: it does not show up the same way in search, it is not built to be found on Google, and it puts your business on a platform you do not control. A proper site is a fixed, findable, professional presence that works alongside social media rather than instead of it.
Built for the trade
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