Tradesman website design. Yours to keep.

More than the £19 and £29 a month offers you will see, and the difference is what you are left holding. Those are rentals: the day you stop paying, the site goes, and the URL and the search history go with it. Ours is monthly too, but the site becomes yours outright: on the day the launch fee clears, or at month 12 if we waived it, and the monthly is buying continuing work on it, not rent on something you will never own.

It looks cheaper and usually is not. At £29 a month you have paid over £1,000 in three years and you own nothing: stop paying and the site disappears, along with the SEO history and the URL. Our build is a one-off cost, you keep the WordPress, the brand files and the hosting credentials, and you can move it to any developer you like. Rented sites also tend to be templates shared with a hundred other trades, which is exactly what stops you standing out.

It will if it is built around how your customers actually decide. Dunnrite Scaffolding came to us four years into trading with a site that would not load on mobile and asked people to download a PDF to enquire: enquiries were near zero. We rebuilt it around the trades buyer's decision path with the accreditations up front and a one-tap call button, in two weeks. Procon 24/7 saw a 37% lift in quote requests within two weeks of launching theirs.

Your accreditations and insurance visible immediately (CISRS, CHAS, NASC, Gas Safe, NICEIC: whichever you hold), photographs of your own real jobs rather than stock images, the specific services you offer each with its own page so people find the exact job they searched, the areas you cover, and a phone number that is one tap away on mobile. Trades buyers call, they rarely fill in forms, so the call button matters more than the contact page.

Often yes, and sometimes no. If you are booked solid on word of mouth and turning work away, a website is not your priority and we will tell you that on the audit call rather than sell you one. If you are competing for jobs against firms that look more established online, or you want higher-value work rather than whatever comes through the door, then it earns its keep. It is sized for exactly that: a single-location trade business, where one job a year covers the lot.

Ten working days from kickoff to live, and kickoff is within seven days of signing. You are on the tools all day, so the process is built around that: a daily Loom video you can watch at six in the evening, and two defined review points. No workshops, no all-day meetings, no chasing you for content.

We build for scaffolders (Dunnrite), roofers (ProMax, fourteen service pages and over 100 local-area pages), concrete suppliers (Procon), civils and groundworks contractors (Civcon), and highways contractors (HTS). Plumbers, electricians, joiners, plasterers, builders and landscapers run on the same system. The trade changes the language and the buyer's urgency, not whether it works.

On-page SEO, local business schema and a Google Business Profile setup ship with every build, which is enough to rank for local trade searches in most areas within 30 to 90 days. For ProMax Roofing we built over 100 local-area pages so a homeowner searching their own town lands on a page about their own town. Your Google Business Profile and reviews do a lot of the heavy lifting locally, and we set that up properly rather than leaving it to you.

You can do it yourself. We build on WordPress with Bricks Builder, so changing text, swapping photos of recent jobs, or adding a service is a five-minute job with no code. You get a Loom walkthrough and a printed cheat sheet at handover. If you would rather not touch it, the Stay Ahead retainer covers it, but that is a choice rather than a trap.

Almost certainly. The published proof happens to be scaffolding, roofing, concrete, civils and highways because those are the clients who let us publish numbers, but web design for trades is the same job underneath: prove you are accredited and insured, show work like theirs, make the phone one tap away, and load fast on a phone in a van with one bar. Electricians, plumbers, joiners, groundworkers, landscapers and plasterers all buy on the same three checks.

Yes, and with roofing clients on the books rather than as a category we would be willing to try. ProMax Roofing runs fourteen service pages and over 100 local-area pages and went from 19 to 98 on mobile speed. Headingley Roofing is the other. Roofing web design has two specific tests most trades sites fail: the gallery has to show your own roofs rather than stock photography, because homeowners can tell, and the emergency and insurance-work paths need their own route through the site instead of being buried in a general contact form.

You keep everything. All WordPress access, the Bricks templates, the brand files, the hosting credentials and the domain are yours, handed over at launch. There is no platform rent, nothing locked to us, and any WordPress developer in the country can pick it up. That is the whole argument against renting a site from a trade-web company that owns your domain.