Websites for a trade
More quotes for the van, fewer evenings chasing them.
We build websites for builders, electricians, plumbers and roofers across Bude, North Cornwall and North Devon: your number at the top, your patch written out, and a quote form that takes photos. A website starts at £1,195, or we build it free from £25 a month.
From £25 a month, or from £1,195Every price
“The phone rings while you're on the tools, you can't answer it, and the job goes to whoever answered.”
A site that turns 'roofer near me' into a quote request with photos, so the enquiry is waiting when you're down the ladder.
The phone goes while you're on the tools.
The words below are the ones you use. We write the site in them rather than translating them into something a stranger would say.
The phone goes when your hands are full. You are on the tools, first fix upstairs, the van is blocked in, and by the time you are down the ladder there are two missed calls and no voicemail. Whoever answered got the job. The evening is then spent writing quotes for work you have not seen properly, half of which goes out and never comes back.
Word of mouth still brings most of it, and it always will. But the family who have just moved into a house in Kilkhampton do not know who to ask yet. They type the trade and the town, ring the first two or three, and take whoever picks up or replies first. On a weather day that could be you, sat in the van with a phone.
So your site is not a brochure and it is not a portfolio. It is a way for that person to reach you without a phone call, and a way for you to work out whether the job is worth the drive before you make it. Your patch, the kind of work you take, your day rate policy if you have one, and a form that lets them send you a photo of the leak.
- quotes
- call-outs
- day rate
- the van
- on the tools
- first fix
- second fix
- snagging
- your patch
- out to quote
- weather days
- word of mouth
Paperclip, as reported, 2025
47%of first calls to small UK firms went unanswered in one study of 142 businesses
Source: Paperclip, as reported, 2025. Paperclip's write-up does not name the original researchers.
www.paperclip.co.uk/missed-business-phone-calls-ukWhat your site actually has to carry.
Not a feature list. These are the things a customer of yours is trying to do, and where each one has to sit before they give up and ring somebody else.
| What it needs | Why, for you | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Your number, big, and tap-to-ring | The job goes to whoever answered. A number that is not a link is a number nobody rings from a phone. | Top of every page, and repeated at the bottom |
| A WhatsApp button | Easier than a form when you are up a ladder, and it leaves you a thread with the photos in it. | Beside the number, on the same tap target |
| A quote form that takes photographs | One photo of the leak saves a visit, and it turns a vague enquiry into a quote you can actually price. | One page, four fields, an upload button that works on a phone |
| The towns you cover | 'Your patch' written out in words is how the right enquiry finds you and the ninety-mile one does not. | In the page as a list, and as the service area on your Google profile |
| The work you actually take | First fix, second fix, snagging, call-outs, the jobs you would rather not have. Saying which saves both of you a phone call. | A page per kind of work, with your own pictures of it |
| A review link you can send | The review comes if you ask on the day, from the van, with a link. It almost never comes from a page on your site. | Your Google Business Profile, sent by text after the job |
What we’d do first.
Before a rebuild, before a rebrand, before anything with a monthly fee attached to it. In this order, for a trade.
Your number huge, a WhatsApp button, and a quote form that takes photos, so a customer can send the leak while you're up a ladder.
Your jobs and your patch on the page: the towns you cover, the kind of work, and pictures of it, so the enquiry is the right kind.
A Google Business Profile with the trade in the name, the real service area, and a review link you send after every job.
And what we wouldn’t bother with
A blog
You will not write it in February and neither will we, and an abandoned blog reads as an abandoned business. A page for each kind of job and a Google profile you actually feed does the same work and stays true.
The words your customers actually type.
Not keywords. Half-sentences, typed with one thumb, usually within a few miles of you and usually about to spend money.
electrician Holsworthy
roofer Bude
plumber Kilkhampton
builder near Stratton
Every one of those is either a page on your site or a line on your Google Business Profile, and usually both. Local SEO and the Google profile is priced on its own, set up once and kept right through the season.
Read next: How do I show up on Google Maps in Bude?
What that takes, and what it costs.
Every one of these has a published price. Where it’s a range, a short call turns it into one fixed figure in writing before any work begins.
- Website design and buildFree build from £25/month, or from £1,195Your number huge, a WhatsApp button, and a quote form that takes photos of the job.
- Local SEO and Google Business ProfileGoogle Business Profile setup £90Your Google listing with the trade in the name, your real patch, and a review link to send after every job.
- Branding and logoFrom £645A logo and colours that read on the van, the board outside a job and a phone screen.
- Care planFrom £60/monthHosting and backups, and from the Grow plan up new job photos and the towns you cover changed when you send them over.
Most of what we can show you so far is holiday parks, glamping and holiday home sales, built by the same two people under our holiday-park name. The thinking is the same and the figures on each study are lab measurements, stated in full. See the work.
Care plans, marketing and the smaller extras are all on the pricing page. When you know what you need, start your project.
The questions we get, answered straight.
I'm on the tools all day. How does a website get me work?
By catching the person who typed your trade and their town and would otherwise have rung someone else. It cannot answer the phone for you, but it can take a description and a photograph at nine at night, so the enquiry is sat waiting when you stop, instead of being a missed call with no voicemail.
Can people send photos of the job?
Yes. The quote form takes photographs from a phone, which is the difference between 'my roof is leaking' and a picture of the ridge. It means fewer trips out to quote work you were never going to take.
Do I need a Google Business Profile as well as a website?
For a trade, the profile usually matters more than the site, because it is what shows on the map when somebody searches. Setting it up properly, with the right service area and the same details everywhere Google looks, is a £90 job of its own. The site is what the profile sends people to.
What does a website for a trade cost?
A Fast-Track Website, from £1,195, covers your number, your patch, the work you take, pictures of it, and the quote form. Google Business Profile setup is £90 on top of that. Hosting and updates are the care plan, from £60 a month. Or we build it free from £25 a month on a pay-monthly plan. Every price is on our pricing page, and a range is fixed in writing before we start.
Real trades we’ve built.
Every one of these is live. Click through and look at it on your own phone.
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Built in Bude: The Bank at Bude, The Triangle, Bar Thirty Five. See all the work
We look at it the way one of your customers would: on a phone, in a hurry, on a Bude signal. Then you get an email from Leonard or Rebecca with the one thing to fix first and roughly what it would cost.
The check costs nothing and there is no sales call after it.