How to Get Your Trade Business Online: Websites for Plumbers, Electricians and Builders

Picture where your next customer actually comes from. Someone's boiler dies, or the fuse box trips again, or they finally decide to do the extension. They ask a neighbour, get your name, and then — before they ring you — they Google you at the kitchen table. If nothing comes up, a little trust leaks away. If a tidy one-page site comes up with your trade, your area, photos of your work, and a contact form, the job is half-won before you have picked up the phone.

The good news: that site no longer takes an agency, a website builder, or a free weekend. With SiteDrop you answer a few questions about your trade and a finished site goes live the same evening.

What a Trade Website Actually Needs

Forget what web designers sell. A plumber, electrician, or builder needs a page that answers the four questions every customer has:

• What do you do? Your services, in plain words — boiler repairs, rewires, extensions, emergency call-outs.
• Where do you work? The towns and areas you cover, so the right people call and the wrong ones do not.
• Can I trust you? Photos of real jobs and a line or two about how long you have been at it.
• How do I reach you? A phone number and a contact form that actually works.

That is it. Nothing else wins you work. A twelve-page site with a blog you will never write does not quote jobs any faster.

The Old Options (And Why Vans Still Have No Websites)

• The agency quote— £500 to £2,000 for a site you will wait weeks for, plus a monthly "maintenance" fee for a page that never changes.
• The DIY builder at 11pm — after a full day on the tools, you sit down with a website builder, fight a template for an hour, and never open it again. The half-finished draft keeps billing you.
• Doing nothing — the most popular option, and the reason the customer at the kitchen table books the other firm.

The SiteDrop Way: Live Tonight

Here is the whole job, start to finish:

1. Sign up free and say the site is for your business.
2. Answer the short questions — your trade, your name, the area you cover, the kind of look you like.
3. Watch the site build itself — your answers become a clean, professional one-pager in front of you.
4. You're live — on your own web address, ready for the van, your Google Business profile, and your WhatsApp status.

And the part trades care about most: enquiries. When a customer fills in your contact form, the message lands in your built-in SiteDrop inbox. No setting up business email, no paying for Google Workspace, no messages lost to a spam folder. Open the dashboard, see the job, ring them back.

The Maths vs an Agency or a Builder Subscription

One bathroom refit pays for years of this. Against the £500–£2,000 agency route you are saving the whole invoice; against a £15-a-month builder subscription you are saving the fee andthe evenings you would have spent dragging blocks. The site earns its keep the first time a kitchen-table Google search ends with your form instead of a competitor's.

Who Is This For?

• Plumbers, electricians, builders — and roofers, plasterers, landscapers, locksmiths: any trade where customers search before they call.
• One-van firms that rely on word of mouth and want the Google search to back the recommendation up.
• Local food and service businesses too — the same logic powers our takeaway website guide.

For the broader picture of how the answer-the-questions flow works for any small business, see How to Get a Business Website by Just Answering a Few Questions.