For builders

Websites and automation for builders

People worry about picking the wrong builder. We build builders' websites around real projects with dates, your paperwork explained, and a quote form that asks the right questions first.

One flagship build · told properly
the real issue

How people choose a builder

An extension is a big spend with a small firm, and people worry about picking the wrong builder.

The wrong-builder fear
People have heard the horror stories. Your site either calms that worry or adds to it.
The quote treadmill
Evenings at other people's kitchen tables, pricing enquiries that were never serious. Free quotes are only free for the customer.
The ageing portfolio
Your best work sits in camera rolls in the van while the website still shows the jobs it launched with.

So the builders' sites we make lead with one project told properly, start to finish.

the site

What a good builder's website includes

This is Hartwell Plumbing, the plumbing and heating concept we built to show the standard. The bones are the same for a builder. Hover it and it walks through itself.

  • One flagship project told properly

    Start to finish: the before, the stages, the dates, the after. One full story tells people more than fifty thumbnails.

  • Accreditations and insurance shown, then explained

    What each badge commits you to and what the insurance actually covers, in one line each. The explanation is what reassures people.

  • A quote form that asks photos and budget band first

    The awkward question up front, before anyone gives up an evening. Serious enquiries self-select.

  • Named reviews tied to named jobs

    A review means more pinned to a project on the same page. The reader can line the words up against the work.

Hartwell Plumbing is a concept, not a real builder. Yours gets built on your projects, your paperwork, your patch.

CONCEPT · PLUMBING & HEATINGHartwell Plumbinghover to view it live →
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example plan

An example automation plan for builders

Three jobs a review usually finds for a business like yours, in the order we'd do them. Each is a small build. Yours will differ, which is what the review is for.

Kitchen-table quoting for dead enquiries

Job 1 · today

Every enquiry earns an evening: the visit, the measuring, the pricing, the follow-up that goes quiet. Whole weeks of evenings go into jobs that were never real.

What we'd build

A quote form that asks for photos and a budget band before anything else. The serious enquiries come through qualified, and those are the evenings you spend.

Ask about the quote form

Job photos stuck on phones

Job 2 · today

Every job gets photographed and none of it goes anywhere. The website ages while your best work sits in three different camera rolls.

What we'd build

A simple project log: photos from the van upload straight to the job's own page as the build goes up. Your portfolio stays up to date as the job goes on.

Ask about the project log

Stage payments chased by text

Job 3 · today

The schedule was agreed at the start, but every stage still ends with you drafting an awkward message about money to someone whose kitchen you're standing in.

What we'd build

Stage-payment reminders that go out on schedule, politely, without you having to write them.

Ask about payment reminders

not sure where to start

If none of these is obviously first, the automation review is £395: 90 minutes with Chris and a written plan of the jobs worth automating, in order. Go ahead with a build within 60 days and the £395 comes off it.

Read about the automation review
what it costs

Prices for builders

Pay monthly with nothing upfront. One monthly price covers everything your site needs: hosting, security, backups and small changes.

Starter
from £79/mo
Nothing upfront · priced to your build

One page, done properly. Enough to look real, be reachable, and come up when someone searches your name. Hosting, changes and care are in it, same as every other tier.

Get a Starter website price
Standard
from £149/mo
Nothing upfront · priced to your build

The builder's site done properly. The flagship project told start to finish, insurance explained, named reviews tied to named jobs, hosting, changes and care, bundled.

Get a Standard website price
Rather pay once? Builds start at £595. The full ladder is on the pricing page, and we'll tell you if the smaller option fits.
Already on Checkatrade or MyBuilder? Keep it if it's bringing in work. A directory puts you in a list next to other firms and the customer picks. Your own site is where someone who already has your name, from the van, a neighbour or a review, lands on you and nobody else.

Get in touch

Thirty minutes on the phone with Chris: he'll tell you what we'd build, what it costs, and whether it's worth doing at all. If your current site just needs your last two years of work putting on it, he'll say so.

Where we work

We work with builders across the UK from our base in Quorn, Leicestershire. There's a page for each of the towns nearest us, with distances from our door.

Loughborough 3 miles Leicester 10 miles Nottingham 18 miles