Websites for Reading builders.
Custom-coded websites for Reading building firms. £100 up front, £20 a month, your homepage designed free before you commit, and nothing tying you in afterwards.
Reading is a Victorian terrace town with a modern income
Caversham, Newtown and the streets either side of the Oxford Road are dense with Victorian and Edwardian terraces, and the technology and finance employers around the town have filled them with owners who can afford to alter them. The recurring job is the same one repeated thousands of times: side return, loft conversion, knock-through, rear extension.
That repetition is an advantage if the site uses it. A prospective customer in a terrace wants to see the same house as theirs, already done. Photographs organised by the type of terrace and the alteration, rather than by date, let them recognise their own street and picture the result immediately.
Party wall awareness sells better than another gallery
Terraced work means shared walls, and shared walls mean party wall notices. Most homeowners have never heard of the process until a neighbour objects or a surveyor's letter arrives, and it is one of the most common reasons a job stalls.
A builder who explains it clearly on their own website, including when a notice is needed and roughly what the surveying costs, is doing something almost none of the competition does. It builds a great deal of trust before the first phone call, and it filters out the enquiries that were never going to proceed.
Custom-coded rather than a plugin build
The site is written directly, so there is nothing to update and nothing to break. It loads in under a second on mobile data, which is where nearly every enquiry now starts, and it stays that way because nothing gets bolted on over time.
Updates are part of the monthly fee rather than a billable job. New photographs go live the same day they reach me.
What you actually get
Your homepage designed in full before you pay anything. Approve it and the rest follows in roughly 48 hours: completed work grouped by job type, the areas you cover, your accreditations, a contact form that reaches your phone and Google Business Profile set up for Reading searches.
Written for Reading and the surrounding suburbs specifically.
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Straight answers for Reading builders.
How much does a builder's website cost in Reading?
£100 to build and £20 a month on Get Found. Most firms take Get Customers at £250 plus £40 a month for the larger gallery and the Google reviews section.
Should the gallery be grouped by job type?
For terraced work, yes. People want to see their own house already altered, and a date-ordered feed makes that hard to find.
Is a page on party wall notices worth having?
It is one of the most useful pages a Reading builder can publish. It answers a question that stalls jobs and it makes you look like the firm that has done this before.
Do you cover Caversham, Earley and Tilehurst?
Yes. The site is built around the suburbs as well as the town centre.
Can I change things later?
Send them over and they go live the same day, included in the monthly fee rather than charged as a separate job.
How long until it is live?
About 48 hours from approving the preview, with photographs usually the limiting factor.
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