Websites for builders.
I'm Huw. I build sites for builders and other small businesses around Bridgend and South Wales. I can help acquire and setup your domain, the hosting and your custom email.
It's just me, so you deal with the same person the whole way through.
For most sites I build, there's no ongoing monthly cost once it's live, that includes no hosting cost. You'll see some other agencies charge a monthly ongoing fee to keep your site live, with me, you only pay when you actually need something.
I'm in Bridgend, working across South Wales and remotely anywhere in the UK.
What your customers type
The searches worth turning up for. Each one wants something slightly different from the page it lands on.
- single storey extension ideas
- kitchen extension ideas
- open plan kitchen diner ideas
- how much does an extension cost per m2
- do I need planning permission for an extension
- loft conversion vs extension
- how long does an extension take
- new kitchen cost
- garage conversion cost
- kitchen fitters Bridgend
- loft conversion Cardiff
- builders near me
The job starts months before you hear about it
Somebody’s outgrown the kitchen. They spend a fortnight on Rightmove pricing up moving, work out that a rear extension costs less than stamp duty and a van, and then read for three months. “Kitchen extension ideas”, “open plan kitchen diner”, “loft conversion vs extension”. By the time they ring anyone they’ve got a shortlist of four and a Pinterest board. Nearly all your money is in that person, and that person reads everything you put in front of them.
What’s going through their head
They’re picturing the finished room, which is why photographs of your own jobs get studied harder than anything written next to them. They’re more frightened of the paperwork than the money, permitted development against an application, building control turning up, drawings. And the question that actually decides it, the one almost nobody puts on a website, is how many weeks they’ll be living without a kitchen. Behind all that there’s a thin stream of urgent work as well, a wall down after a gale, and that person wants a number and nothing else.
What I’d do for you
The first meeting is me taking you through the run your customers go on, from Rightmove in January to ringing four builders in March, and what each stage of it needs. Then I’ll scope it and put a price on it.
The build, your email and your Google profile
Most of these sites are static: plain files on a server, nothing to log into, no plugin sat there waiting to be patched. They load quickly on a phone with two bars of signal, and for most of them there's no ongoing hosting cost. No monthly retainer, and the domain renews once a year at list price in your name with no commission from me. If you'd rather edit the pages yourself I'll build you something you can edit, and tell you what it costs to run before we start.
Email goes on your own custom domain, setup properly so your quotes, invoices and confirmations land in the inbox rather than the spam folder.
Then the Google Business Profile, which on a phone often sits above every website on the screen. I go through yours with you and get it agreeing with the site, because when the two disagree they stop being read as the same business.
What I'd build for builders in your town
The job is the same wherever you are. What changes is which town and village names belong on the page, that's what people type.
See where your site stands first
Put your address into the free check and it tells you where the site's hosted, what it's built with, what a search engine actually gets and whether your email is setup right. Takes about ten seconds and nothing on your site is touched. Run the free check.
If the email records come back failing, that's worth reading about on its own. If it's the site, here's how I build them, and here are five things to ask anyone quoting you.
Tell me about the business.
Say what you're trying to achieve and I'll tell you what I'd do, including when the answer is an hour on your Google Business Profile would do more than a new site.