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website for tradies
Website design for tradies
that makes the phone ring.
You don't need a brand story. You need the bloke with a burst pipe at 7pm to find you, trust you and call you. That is the whole job. We build for plumbers, sparkies, builders, landscapers and concreters from $690 +GST ($759 including GST), with the price fixed in writing before work starts.
Plumbers · electricians · builders · landscapers · concreters · roofers · across Sydney and beyond.
the moment that matters
Your next customer is
on a phone, in a hurry.
Nobody browses plumber websites for fun. They search when the hot water dies or the switchboard trips, they search on a phone, and they call whoever looks real first. Your website has one job: turn that search into a call before the back button wins.
They search when it hurts
Blocked drain at 9pm. No power on a Sunday. The jobs that pay best are urgent, which is why your number has to be one tap away, not hidden behind a menu on a contact page.
They choose from a map
For "electrician near me", the map shows three businesses before any website appears. Your Google Business Profile gets you into the three. Your website is what they check before they commit.
They judge in seconds
On mobile data, a site that takes five seconds to appear has already lost to the one that took one. We build lean and test on real phones, not just a desktop score.
tradie website design, honestly
What a tradie website needs.
And what it doesn't.
Not much, done properly, beats a lot done badly. Five things earn their place on a tradie's website. Most of what agencies want to sell you isn't on the list.
| It needs | Because |
|---|---|
| A click-to-call number, visible without scrolling | Most of your visitors are on a phone with a problem. Ringing you must take one tap, not a hunt. |
| Photos of your real jobs | Customers can smell stock photos. Your actual work, your ute, your team. That's what earns the call. |
| The suburbs you actually service | "Sydney" wins nothing. Name the areas you'll drive to and you win the searches that become jobs you'll take. |
| A quote form that works on a phone | A few fields and a photo upload, and it must land in your inbox. A form that fails silently is worse than no form. |
| Your reviews, on the site | People read reviews before they call. Show your Google rating instead of hoping they go looking for it. |
Put your licence number and ABN in the footer too. Costs nothing, and it separates you from every unlicensed operator underquoting you. What it doesn't need: a blog you'll never update, a slideshow, a mission statement, a chatbot, or animations that delay the phone number. If a feature doesn't help someone decide to call you, it's decoration.
the usual suspects
Why most tradie websites
never ring.
We rebuild a lot of trade sites, and the same four failures turn up every time. None of them are about design taste. All of them cost jobs.
No photos of the work
A stock handshake, a stock hard hat, nothing that proves the business exists. The customer can't see a single job you've done, so they call someone whose work they can see.
The number is buried
A phone number in a desktop header that vanishes on mobile, or lives only on a contact page. Every extra tap between the customer and the call loses a share of them.
Built once, then abandoned
Prices from 2019, hours that are wrong, a form delivering to an inbox nobody checks. Customers notice, and so does Google.
Not built for phones
Pinch-and-zoom text on the device nearly every trade search happens on. If your site only works on a desktop, it only works where your customers aren't.
do this now
Check your own site.
One minute, from the ute.
Turn off wifi so you're on mobile data. Open your own website. Count the seconds before you can read it. Now try to ring yourself from the page without scrolling, zooming or hunting for a contact link. If the site took more than about three seconds to show, or the call took more than one tap, you've just found out why the phone is quiet. Every customer runs this same test. They just don't tell you the result.
the site and the map are a pair
The map wins the search.
The website wins the job.
For most trade searches the Google map pack sits above every website, and those three spots come from your Google Business Profile, not your site. But the two work together. The profile gets you seen, the customer taps through, and what they find decides whether they call. Google also cross-checks your name, phone and details between profile and site, so they have to agree everywhere.
The do-it-yourself half is free and we've written it up properly: our guide to getting a local trades business found on Google covers categories, service areas, reviews and photos, step by step, no purchase required. This page is the other half: what it costs to have the website side built by someone who does it for a living. The ongoing ranking work after the build is local SEO, and we do that too.
Where you work changes the search, not the price. If your runs are out west, web design Penrith covers Penrith and the Nepean and web design Parramatta covers Parramatta out to Bankstown. Same build, same fixed quote, different customers typing.
trades we've built for
Real trades clients.
Judge the work yourself.
Not mockups. Two trades businesses whose sites we designed, built and still look after: a roofer and a coolroom builder. Both are live right now, so click through and judge the work yourself.
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coolroom builders · Sydney Select Coolrooms & Construction
Coolroom and freezer builders working Sydney and the east coast. Rebuilt around a live quote calculator wired into their CRM: $299,521 in quotes in four days and #1 for "cool room builders Sydney".
Read the case study → View live site → -
roofing · Glenmore Park Perfection Roofing
Roofing across Glenmore Park, Mulgoa and greater Sydney. Rebuilt and cut over to new hosting in a day, off a compromised server, without losing the phone number's place on every screen.
View live site →
That's the trades slice. See all 24 live sites we've built →
the money
The prices. On the page,
like a real quote.
You quote jobs for a living, so you know what an asterisk after "from" usually means. Here's how we do it instead: genuine starting prices below, then a fixed written quote for your actual job before any work starts. The number doesn't move after that, and you own the code, the domain and the hosting.
| Build | Right for | From, +GST | Incl. GST |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-page site | Sole traders who need one sharp page: click-to-call, quote form, Google basics wired in | $690 | $759 |
| Five-page business site | Established trades: services, service area, job photos, reviews | $1,490 | $1,639 |
| Larger custom build | Bigger operations, calculators and integrations | $2,490 | $2,739 |
| Online store | Selling supplies or products online | $3,490 | $3,839 |
| SEO plan, monthly | Ongoing ranking work after the build, no lock-in | $390/mo | $429/mo |
For comparison: the websites advertised at $99 a month add up to $2,376 over two years, and at the end you own nothing and can't leave with the site. A DIY trades website builder looks cheaper again, until you price your own weekends. Full inclusions are on the packages page, and if you already have a site, the rebuild packages show how we carry your Google rankings across instead of losing them.
good to know
What every build includes
- Twelve months of hosting, SSL and monitoring: included in the build price. After that it is $99 a year including GST, and nothing else.
- You own the code, the domain and the hosting. If you ever leave, you take all three with you.
- SEO-ready from day one: real heading structure, schema, internal linking and the AI-answer work most builds never get.
- Sydney based, 18+ years. The team that builds it also hosts it and monitors it, so problems get diagnosed rather than forwarded.
- Moving an existing site? Every URL is mapped with 301 redirects so the rankings you already have survive.
Full tier detail is on the packages page.
Tradie questions.
How much does a website for a tradie cost?
A one-page site is $690 +GST ($759 including GST). A five-page business site is $1,490 +GST ($1,639 including GST). A larger custom build is $2,490 +GST ($2,739 including GST) and an online store is $3,490 +GST ($3,839 including GST). Those are genuine starting prices, and you get a fixed written quote before any work starts. The number does not move after that.
What should a tradie website include?
Five things: a click-to-call phone number visible without scrolling, photos of your real jobs, the suburbs you actually service, a quote form that works on a phone and lands in your inbox, and your reviews. Your licence number and ABN help too. It does not need a blog, a slogan or a chatbot.
I have a Google Business Profile and a Facebook page. Do I still need a website?
Yes. The profile gets you seen on the map, but customers tap through before they call, and what they find decides whether they trust you with the job. Google also cross-checks your profile against a website, so a profile with no site, or one pointing at a dead page, loses on both fronts. The profile wins the search. The website wins the job.
Can you rebuild my old site without losing my Google ranking?
Yes. Every address on your old site gets a permanent redirect to its new home, so the Google standing you have built carries across instead of dying with the old site. We do this on every rebuild and verify the redirects after launch.
Do you build websites for plumbers, electricians and builders?
Yes, and for landscapers, concreters, roofers and industrial trades. People search for plumber website design or electrician website design as if they were different products. They are the same build: show the work, name the area, make calling one tap. Our live trades clients include a Sydney roofer and a coolroom and freezer builder whose rebuilt site issued $299,521 in quotes in four days, and you can click through to every site we have built.
Do you do SEO for tradies?
Yes. Monthly SEO plans start at $390 +GST a month ($429 including GST) with no lock-in. The plan keeps your Google Business Profile fed, your reviews coming and your pages ranking. If you would rather do the basics yourself first, our free guide to getting a trades business found on Google covers them step by step.
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