Websites for trades and home services
I'm Alex, and I build websites for plumbers, electricians, roofers, landscapers and anyone else who works out of a truck. One price, no quotes to chase: $500 to build it, $99 a month to keep it running with as many changes as you want. And I build your homepage for free first, so you can see it before you spend a dollar.
Measured on your device, just now. Every site I build is this light — that's what stops people leaving before your page finishes loading.
What you get
Most trades don't need anything clever. They need to be findable, readable on a phone, and easy to call. That's what I build.
Most people looking you up are standing in their driveway on a bad connection. The site opens before they give up and call the next guy.
Your hours, phone number, service area and trades written the way search engines read them, plus your Google listing sorted out.
Photos of your trucks, your crew, your finished jobs. No stock photos of people in headsets.
Messages land in your inbox and you reply straight back to the customer. No login, no portal, no dashboard to remember to check.
If it breaks, goes down, or the domain is about to expire, it's my problem and you don't get an invoice for it.
New price, new number, new photos, dropped a service, added a town. Text me as often as you like — it's in the monthly, and it's done within two working days.
How it works
Nobody should have to hand a stranger five hundred dollars for something they can't picture yet. So I build one simple homepage first, for nothing, and you decide from there.
The homepage mock-up is free — one version, no changes. If you want the full site after seeing it, it's $500: $250 to start and $250 before it goes live. Your changes and the rest of the pages are part of that.
What you do, where you work, which pages you need, what colours feel right. No quote to wait on — the price is $500 and $99 a month before you start typing.
Within a week I text you a link. A real working page, kept simple on purpose — enough to show you the direction, not the finished article.
Say no and that's the end of it — you've paid nothing and owe nothing. Say yes and the changes, the polish and the rest of the pages all start.
The first half starts the build. When the finished site is in front of you and you're happy, the second half puts it on your own domain the same day.
Why it costs less than you expect
That's the whole trick, and I'd rather tell you than have you wonder. Work that took an agency three weeks and a team of four takes me about a week on my own — so I charge five hundred dollars instead of five thousand, and I can afford to build your homepage before you've paid me anything.
You're not getting less website. You're getting the same website without paying for someone's office.
What it costs
No packages, no tiers, no quote to wait on. Every site I build costs the same, and the only thing that changes the monthly is online booking.
What turns that free homepage into a real website — your changes, the rest of your pages, your own domain, live and working.
Hosting, your domain, and me on the other end of a text. The changes are the point: send as many as you want.
Customers pick a slot themselves and it lands in your calendar. Skip this if people just call you — most trades do.
Prices, hours, phone number, photos, a service you've dropped, a town you've added. As often as you want. It's the reason the monthly is $99 and not $30.
If you'd rather own it than rent it, you can buy it any time and I hand over every file. After that you owe me nothing and you're free to host it wherever you like.
Send whatever you've got, even phone photos off the job. I crop, straighten and compress them so the site stays fast. No stock images unless you ask.
Canadian dollars. The build is $250 before I start and $250 before it goes live; the first half isn't refundable once work has started. Unlimited changes means content — words, prices, hours, photos, pages — not new features like a store or a login system. The monthly has no contract: cancel any month and the site comes offline thirty days later, or buy it outright for $995 and keep it. Your domain is yours either way.
Questions I get asked
Never before you've seen your homepage — that part is free. Once you've seen it and want the full site, it's $250 to start the build and $250 once the finished site is in front of you and you're happy with it. Then $99 a month from the day it goes live.
Not once I've started building, no. It pays for work I've already done rather than for the finished site, and a week spent on your website is a week I can't sell to anyone else. The one exception: if I don't deliver what we agreed, you get it back. Up until you pay it, walking away costs you nothing.
Anything already on the site: wording, prices, hours, phone numbers, photos, adding a service, dropping one, swapping a page around, adding a town to your service area. As many as you want, as often as you want. I ask one thing — send them one at a time rather than in a list of forty, and each one's done within two working days.
New machinery, not new words. An online store, customer accounts, a booking system, anything that takes money or logins — those are new features rather than changes, and they either cost more per month or need quoting. Booking is the one I do as standard, at $39 a month. Ask me about anything else and I'll give you a straight number or tell you it's not worth it.
Because with a builder you're the one making the changes at nine at night, and with me you send a text and it's done. That's the whole difference. If you're happy learning the software and doing it yourself, honestly go and do that — you'll save money. The $99 buys a person, not a product.
About a week for the free homepage after you send the form, and about a week again for the finished site once you've said go. If it's going to be longer than that because you're mid-season or I'm mid-exams, I'll tell you the date up front rather than let you wonder.
Yes. I build one simple homepage from your answers before you've paid me anything. If you don't want it, you say no and we're done — I keep the work, you keep your money.
Not before you've committed, no. The free one is a single version built from your answers — deliberately simple, enough to show you the direction and the standard of the work. Changes, wording, colours and polish are all part of the build, and they start once the first $250 is in. Otherwise I'd be redesigning pages for people who were never going to hire me.
You get an email and thirty days. After that the site comes offline, because the hosting was being paid for out of the monthly. Nothing is deleted and nothing is held over you — if you change your mind later, it goes back up.
Yes — $995 any time, and I hand over every file and the whole repository. Total to own one outright is $1,500, which is about what this site would cost you anywhere else. Most people would rather pay the $99 and never think about it again, but the door's open either way.
You do, always, whatever else happens. It goes in an account in your name, and if you ever want it moved elsewhere I do that within a few working days at no charge. The domain is your business's address — it was never mine to hold.
The box with your hours, phone number, photos and reviews that appears beside the map when someone searches your name. For a local trade it often matters more than the website. I set it up with you — Google verifies the owner, usually by postcard or a phone call, so you have to be there for that part.
It's what I'm set up for — plumbers, electricians, HVAC, roofers, landscapers, painters, cleaners, movers, general contractors. A business whose website changes twice a year is one I can look after properly at $99. If you run a restaurant or a shop with stock that moves daily, call me anyway and I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit.
Me, every time. I'm a programming student, I build every site myself, and I answer my own phone. No account manager, no ticket queue.
Get started
You know the price before you start — $500 to build, $99 a month — and you'll have a real homepage in front of you before you've paid anything. If you'd rather just talk it through, call me instead.
