Websites for roofers.
I'm Huw. I build sites for roofers 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.
- how much does a new roof cost
- how long does a roof last
- EPDM vs felt flat roof
- GRP or rubber flat roof
- slate vs concrete tiles
- do I need scaffolding for a roof repair
- flat roof replacement cost
- chimney repointing cost
- roof leak in heavy rain
- roofer Bridgend
- storm damage roof repair
- emergency roof repair near me
Two halves, and they arrive differently
Half your traffic is somebody whose roof is thirty years old and starting to worry them. They’re searching “how long does a roof last”, “slate vs concrete tiles”, “how much does a new roof cost”, and they’ll read for weeks before they ring three people. The other half arrives all at once. A gale takes ridge tiles off half a street and by 7am everyone’s searching “roof repair” on a phone. If your page takes six seconds to load on a bad signal they’ve already rung someone else.
What each of them is stuck on
The planner is stuck between a repair and the start of a re-roof, and genuinely wants EPDM against felt, or warm deck against cold deck, explained by somebody who fits both. The one asking what a new roof costs is really asking what the scaffolding adds, which is the bit nobody mentions until the quote lands. And a good few of the storm lot won’t ring at all, they’ll send a photo of the ceiling stain at half nine at night and see who replies first.
People have been warned about roofers
Everyone knows somebody who paid a deposit to a bloke who knocked the door and never came back, so a real address, a company number and the fact that you don’t cold call carry more weight in your trade than in any other.
What I’d do for you
The first meeting is me taking you through it, who’s searching and what they want, then a scope and a price.
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 roofers 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.