Websites for handymen & property maintenance firms
Websites for handymen, built around the jobs you actually take on
A handyman website has one job the other trades do not: it has to say what you will and will not do, before the phone rings. Most enquiries are small, urgent and specific, from a customer who has just measured a shelf or found a dripping tap and wants somebody reliable today. We build handyman websites that answer that in the first screen: the jobs you take, how you charge, the area you cover, and a number to tap.
Why a generic site lets you down
What a handyman's customers actually do
Half the calls are for jobs you do not do
Handyman is the widest job title in the trades, so people ring you for everything from a flat-pack wardrobe to a full rewire. Every call about work you cannot take is time off a job, and every customer who finds out on the phone goes away disappointed. A site that lists the work you take on, and says plainly where a Gas Safe engineer or a registered electrician is needed instead, filters those calls before they reach you.
They are letting a stranger into the house
Most of your work happens inside someone's home, often while they are at work or alone in the house. That customer is judging whether you are safe to let in, not just whether you can fix the tap. A real photograph of you, your insurance stated plainly, reviews with names attached and a proper address do more for that decision than any amount of design.
Small jobs get priced by phone and lost by silence
Nobody wants a site visit to quote for two hours of work. The customer wants a rough idea of the cost and when you could come, and they are ringing three people to find it. If your site does not say how you charge, by the hour, by the half day, or with a minimum call-out, you are the one they ring last.
Built for the trade
What we build into every handyman website
A page for each job you want more of
Flat-pack assembly, shelving and mounting, door hanging and adjustments, sealant and grout, fence panels, gutter clearing, small repairs and decorating touch-ups. Each gets its own page with its own photos, because somebody searching for a TV wall mount and somebody with a broken fence panel are different customers with different urgency.
How you charge, in writing, before they ring
Your hourly rate, half-day and day rates, or a minimum charge, whichever way you work, shown on the site rather than explained on every call. It sets expectations, stops the haggling, and means the people who do ring have already accepted the basis of the price.
A clear line around gas and electrical work
Gas work must be done by a Gas Safe registered engineer, and notifiable electrical work needs someone qualified to certify it. Saying so on the site protects you, tells the customer you know the rules, and turns a call you cannot take into trust you can bank. If you hold those registrations yourself, the site shows them beside the phone number instead.
A quote form that takes a photograph
Most handyman jobs can be priced from a picture: the shelf, the leak, the gate that will not close. The form asks what the job is, where it is, how soon they need it and lets them send photos, so you can quote from the van at five o'clock instead of driving across town to look at a door handle.
Your face, your insurance and your reviews together
For work in occupied homes the trust signals matter more than the logo. A photograph of you, your public liability cover stated in plain words, and your Google reviews shown on the site rather than only on a directory profile. Older customers and landlords in particular look for exactly this before they let someone in.
The streets you actually cover
Small jobs do not travel. Twenty minutes each way on a two-hour job is the difference between profit and a favour, so the site names the areas you genuinely serve and the same areas go on your Google Business Profile. Real coverage only, with no run of near-identical town pages.
A proper place for your accreditations
Badges your customers look for, shown where they look, with a link to the register so they can check.
- Public liability insurance
- Which? Trusted Trader
- TrustATrader
- Checkatrade
- Gas Safe Register (only if you hold it)
Property maintenance and landlord work
If your work comes from letting agents, landlords and blocks rather than homeowners, the site is shaped for a different reader. That means a page about reactive maintenance and response times, how you invoice, whether you hold keys, and what you can cover across a portfolio, alongside the domestic pages. Agents check those things before adding a contractor to the list, and most handyman sites never mention them.
Proof
Websites we've built for handymen
We haven't published a handymen site as a public example yet. Ask and we'll walk you through comparable trade sites we've built.
What's included
Fixed price, fixed scope, no surprises
- Phone-first design, tap-to-call on every screen
- A page for each service you want to win work for
- Your reviews and accreditations built in
- Quote-request form that emails you and keeps a record
- Fast, mobile-first, made to rank locally
- You own the site, the domain and the content
Getting found locally
Handyman work is won street by street. The searches are 'handyman near me', 'flat pack assembly' and 'odd job man' plus a town, nearly always on a phone, with Google's map results sitting above everything else. Those map places go to businesses with a complete Google Business Profile, steady reviews and a website with a real page for each job and area. We build that last part properly; keeping the profile fed and the reviews coming is ongoing work.
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How it works
- 1
Tell us about the work you want more of
Three quick questions, your trade, your current site, how to reach you. You get a fixed price and a timescale back.
- 2
We build it around how your customers buy
We start with the list of jobs you take and the jobs you turn away, then how you charge and the area you cover, and you sign off each page before it goes live.
- 3
Go live, then get found
Hosting, care and (if you want it) SEO so the site keeps earning its keep. No lock-in: it's yours.
Questions
Handymen ask us
Should my website list every job I do?
List the work you want more of, and be just as clear about what you do not take on. A long undifferentiated list tells Google nothing and tells the customer even less. A page each for flat-pack assembly, mounting, door adjustments and gutter clearing gives both of them something specific, and a short line about gas and electrical work saves you the calls you cannot accept.
Should I put my prices on the site?
Put the basis of your pricing on the site even if you cannot put a figure on every job. An hourly rate, a half-day rate or a minimum charge tells the customer whether to ring, and it stops you quoting the same three answers on the phone all week. Trades who hide it get more calls and fewer jobs, because the people ringing have not agreed to anything yet.
Can I just use a free website builder?
You can, and for a handyman starting out it may be enough for a while. Where the free builders fall down is the parts that win small jobs: a number that is tappable in the first screen, a quote form that accepts photographs, a page for each job type so search can find you, and somebody to fix it when the platform changes. What we build is yours outright, including the domain, the pages and the photos on them.
How much does a handyman website cost?
One fixed figure, agreed in writing before any deposit. For a handyman it moves with how many job types get their own page and whether you want a separate section for landlords and letting agents. The packages on our pricing page set out what is included; what trade websites usually cost across the UK, and why two quotes can be so far apart, is in our cost guide.
Can I see handyman websites you have built?
Not a handyman one yet. The trade sites we can point you to today are a decorator, a landscaper, a groundworks contractor and a Liverpool plumbing and heating firm, all built by JW Digital Services Ltd, which runs this site. We are happy to walk you through what would change for handyman work, where the job list and the pricing basis do most of the selling.
Know the price before you call
Three quick questions and you'll have a fixed price and a timescale. No sales calls, no pressure.