Websites for builders
Websites for builders
Proof that wins the five-figure job, and email that cannot be faked as you.
- What it costs
- From £49 a month, fixed in writing
- How long it takes
- Live within about a week
- Who it is for
- Small businesses in Lincolnshire
Straight answers
- How much does a website for a builder cost?
- From £49 a month including VAT, with nothing upfront. That covers the build, hosting, daily backups, security and small ongoing changes, and the price is fixed in writing before anything starts. Add-ons such as instant enquiry replies and missed-call texts are priced the same way.
- I get all my work from word of mouth. Do I need a website?
- If you are booked solid for months ahead, or you work only as a subcontractor for one main contractor, you can honestly wait. Where a site earns its keep is the bigger job: the household planning a loft conversion or an extension collects more than one quote, and the proof they compare is finished work, cover and accreditations. Word of mouth puts you on the list. The site is what settles it.
- Can I add finished jobs from my phone?
- Yes. A job is finished, you photograph it, and it goes on the gallery. Small changes are part of the monthly care, so adding a completed extension does not mean raising a ticket with a web company and waiting a week.
- Do I own my website?
- Yes, completely. The site, the domain and the content are yours. There is no lock-in and no ransom if you ever leave. That is not true of every builder, so it is worth asking whoever you speak to.
Why it matters here
Proof wins the walkaround
An extension or a loft conversion is a five-figure decision, made by a householder who knows it. Checkatrade's cost guides put most loft conversions at £27,500 to £75,000 or more, with typical spend around £50,000, and single-storey extensions averaging £30,000 to £140,000. Nobody signs off that kind of money on a promise. Customers shortlist on proof, and the builder with photographed finished jobs wins the walkaround. The person planning a £50,000 dormer checks three things before calling: have you done this, are you covered, and can I get a quote without a phone game.
Most builders' online presence answers none of the three. Word of mouth carries the work, the photos of finished jobs sit on a phone, and what a customer finds instead is a wall of borrowed badges or nothing at all. A site built for a builder turns that around: photographed jobs laid out by type, cover and accreditations stated with numbers that can be checked, and a quote request that takes two minutes from a phone. It is built and cared for from £49 a month including VAT, with nothing upfront, and the site, domain and content stay yours.
What wins the extension job
- A project gallery sorted by job type
- Extensions, loft conversions and renovations, each with before-and-after photographs of real jobs rather than stock, laid out so the customer planning that kind of work can see you have done it before.
- Insurance and accreditations stated plainly
- The schemes you actually hold, named with numbers anyone can check. TrustMark describes itself as the Government Endorsed Quality Scheme for work in and around the home; if you hold it, the site says so plainly, and if you do not, there is no borrowed badge wall pretending otherwise.
- Quote capture with an instant reply
- A short form that captures the job properly the first time, an instant reply so the enquiry knows it arrived, and a missed-call text for the calls missed while you are on the scaffold.
- Service areas stated clearly
- The towns and villages you cover, written down plainly, so the right jobs arrive and the out-of-area ones do not eat the evening.
The difference
Secure by default, not as an afterthought
A stage payment on an extension is exactly when the bank-detail switch lands: an email that looks like yours asks your customer to pay a different account. UK Finance's Annual Fraud Report describes invoice and mandate scams, which cost £41.3m across 2,305 cases in 2025, and names criminals posing as 'conveyancing solicitors, builders, tradespeople, or business suppliers claiming bank account details have changed'. Every build ships with SPF, DKIM and DMARC set up as standard, so sending email as your business is much harder, alongside encryption and hardened hosting for the enquiry details customers trust you with. The free security check grades any domain in seconds.
Summit Roofing
A fictional family roofing contractor covering Leeds and West Yorkshire. A trade-services layout with a services grid, a before and after project gallery, an emergency call-out route, and example reviews clearly labelled as examples.
A roofing demonstration build, shown because the trades pattern is the same one a builder needs: a services grid, a gallery of real work, a trust strip and a quote route. Nothing in it is a builder's firm, and the example reviews are clearly labelled as examples.
A fictional business created to show build quality. Not a live client site.
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