Web design for plumbers, UK-wide
Plumbing is local work, so plenty of plumbers assume the web designer should be local too - someone you can sit across a desk from. Here's my honest take after building these sites: a local agency adds nothing for web work. The site gets built on a laptop either way, and you'll communicate by email and phone either way. What matters is whether the person building it understands plumbing businesses.
I work with sole trader plumbers across the UK - England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland - and the process is identical wherever you are: an enquiry form, a scope and price within one working day, and a site built around the work you want more of.
Why trade-specific beats local
The local agency down the road built a site for a florist last month. They'll approach your plumbing site with the same template thinking: nice photos, an About page, a contact form at the bottom. They don't know that a Gas Safe number above the fold changes enquiry rates, or that emergency work and quoted work need completely different pages.
A specialist who builds only plumber websites has already made your mistakes on someone else's project and designed them out. That knowledge doesn't travel through geography - it travels through repetition in one trade.
How remote actually works
Everything happens over email and a phone call if you want one. You fill in the enquiry form with your trade, areas and the jobs you want more of. I send back a scope and fixed price within one working day. You send photos and details when it suits you - most plumbers do this from the van between jobs.
One to two weeks later the site is live. Nothing about that process improves by sitting in the same room, and you'd pay a local agency's office rent for the privilege.
UK-wide pricing, no postcode premium
The price is the same whether you're in Cornwall or Caithness: £595 one-off, £795 plus £49 a month managed, or £1,195 with after-hours triage. London agencies charge London rates for the same laptop work - that's the only genuinely local thing about web design.
And because I also run Planning Leads, a weekly email digest of approved planning applications filtered for plumbing work, the site can be paired with a lead source that works in any UK council area.
Three ways to get your site built.
Fixed prices, agreed in writing before any work starts. No VAT added.
One-off build
We build it, you own it. No monthly fee, no strings. Hosting set up in your name.
Get a quote →Managed
We build it, host it, maintain it and make your edits. You never touch a dashboard.
Get a quote →Managed + triage
Everything in Managed, plus an after-hours triage system that sorts urgent enquiries from ones that can wait.
Get a quote →Full details, add-ons and what's included: the plumbing websites service
The only web designer who also finds you the jobs.
Your site is built by the same person who runs Planning Leads - a weekly email digest of approved planning applications in your area, filtered for plumbing work, with a ready-to-personalise letter template for every lead.
Questions plumbers ask us.
Do you build websites for plumbers anywhere in the UK?+
Yes - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The process is fully remote: enquiry form, a scope and price within one working day, then build. Most plumbers never need more than email and one phone call.
Isn't it better to use a local web designer?+
Not for the website itself. Local matters for plumbing because someone has to physically turn up; a website is built remotely regardless of where the designer sits. What actually changes the result is whether the designer knows plumbing businesses.
Will my website target my local area?+
Yes - that part is essential. Your service areas go into the page copy, titles and schema markup so you show up for searches in the places you actually cover. The designer being remote doesn't stop the website being local.
How do we communicate during the build?+
Email as the backbone, with a phone call whenever it's easier to talk. You'll see the site at a preview link before anything goes live, and nothing launches until you're happy with it.
Tell us about your business.
Your trade, your area, the jobs you want more of. You'll have a scope and a fixed price within one working day - no calls unless you want one, no obligation.