Blackpool is unusually good territory for a trade. The town is full of Victorian and Edwardian terraces in Layton, Marton and along the streets off Whitegate Drive, and older properties mean constant work: rewires, re-roofs, damp, boilers, bathrooms. Then there’s the seafront. Salt air and westerly weather off the Irish Sea are brutal on render, flat roofs, guttering and paintwork from the Promenade back through South Shore, so hotels, guest houses and holiday lets need trades year-round - and a lot of that refurbishment work lands in the quieter months between the Illuminations switching off and the season starting again. The work is there. The question is whether people can find you, and whether what they find makes them ring you rather than the next name on the list.
What we build for a trade
Not a brochure. A tool for getting enquiries. Every trades site we build is designed around one job - turning a search into a phone call:
- Big, obvious contact buttons. Call and WhatsApp buttons that sit on screen on a phone, because someone with water coming through the ceiling isn’t going to fill in a long form.
- Galleries of finished jobs. Before-and-after photos of real work are the single most convincing thing on a trade’s website. If your photos need help, we can arrange professional photography as an optional extra.
- Your reviews, on your site. Our Google reviews widget (£3.99 a month) pulls your Google reviews straight onto the page, so the proof does the selling for you.
- A page per service. “Boiler repairs”, “flat roofing”, “full rewires” - separate pages rank for separate searches, and they let you show the exact work you want more of.
- Areas-covered done properly. Blackpool, Bispham, Cleveleys, Thornton, Poulton, Lytham St Annes - listed so Google (and customers) know exactly where you’ll travel.
We’ve built for trades on the Fylde Coast before - Heavenly Fireplaces, stove installers working across the coast, run on one of our sites - so we know what this kind of customer looks for. The most recent is Cash and Carry Kitchens, a kitchen supplier and fitter with a showroom on Bispham Road: a bespoke site built around booking a free home measure and quote, with its own pages for the towns it fits kitchens in. It went live in September 2026 and scored 100 in all four of Google’s PageSpeed categories on mobile and desktop when we tested it on 27 September 2026.
Websites for electricians, plumbers and builders
Every trade sells differently, so the site is built around what your customers check before they ring.
Electricians
Customers and letting agents want proof you’re qualified before anything else, so your scheme membership (NICEIC, NAPIT or similar) and Part P status sit near the top of every page, with a link to check them. Blackpool has a lot of rented housing, so landlord work gets its own pages: EICRs, rewires, consumer unit upgrades, EV chargers. Emergency call-outs get a one-tap call button that stays on screen.
Plumbers and heating engineers
Your Gas Safe registration number goes where people look for it, because checking it is the first thing a careful customer does. Separate pages for boiler installs, servicing, repairs and bathrooms, each with the areas you cover, so “boiler repair Bispham” finds the page about exactly that. An emergency line for leaks, and an enquiry form for the planned jobs that can wait until morning.
Builders, roofers and joiners
Bigger jobs are won on proof of past work, so the site leads with project galleries and before-and-after photos, grouped by type: extensions, loft conversions, re-roofs, flat roofs, kitchens. Memberships like TrustMark or the FMB go on show if you have them, and a quote form asks the questions you’d ask on the phone (job type, postcode, photos), so you can price before you visit.
Why pay monthly makes sense for a one-van business
Most sole traders and small firms don’t want to hand over two or three grand for a website, and they definitely don’t want to become their own webmaster afterwards. Our deal is £99 to set up, then £29.99 a month, and that’s genuinely the whole cost: design, hosting, SSL, your domain, business email and every change you ever need. Won an award, bought a new van, want last week’s loft conversion on the gallery? Message us and we’ll update it - no invoice.
It also means the site never quietly rots. Ongoing maintenance - security updates, backups and renewals - is part of the monthly fee, so you’re never the roofer whose own website has a hole in it. Already got a site that’s gone stale? We redesign existing sites too.
Being found in Blackpool: local SEO for trades
For a trade, local search is the whole game. Nobody in Marton searches for “best plumber UK” - they search “emergency plumber Blackpool” or “electrician near me” at half nine at night. Two things decide who they find:
Your Google Business Profile. The map listing with your reviews is usually the first thing a local customer sees. It needs to be claimed, categorised correctly and pointing at a proper website - a profile that links to nothing (or to a dead Facebook page) leaks jobs. We’ll make sure yours and your site back each other up - and for trades chasing the busiest searches, our ongoing SEO campaign does the whole search side for you.
A site built for local searches. We write your pages around the searches Blackpool people actually make - service plus place - and set up the technical side (titles, structured data, a fast mobile site) so Google can trust it. FY postcodes, real area names, real services. That’s how you show up for the streets you actually work.
Ready when you are - message us on WhatsApp, email us, or start below and we’ll take it from there.
Not certain yours is the problem? Check it free before you spend anything - speed, Google visibility and local signals, explained without the jargon.
Questions Blackpool tradesmen ask us
How much does a tradesman website cost in Blackpool?
£99 setup, then £29.99 a month, and that’s the lot: bespoke design, UK hosting on our own servers, SSL, your .co.uk domain, business email, local SEO foundations and 3 content edits a month. Cancel any time with 30 days’ notice and there’s no exit fee. Want online bookings for call-outs or a shop for parts? Those are add-ons at £9.99 and £19.99 a month.
Will my site show up for searches like ‘builder Blackpool’ or ‘plumber near me’?
That’s the aim, but nobody can promise a position on Google and you should be wary of anyone who does. What we can do is build the two things those searches run on: a claimed, properly categorised Google Business Profile, and a fast site with a page per service and your real areas covered - Blackpool, South Shore, Bispham, Cleveleys, Poulton - so Google has evidence to rank you for the streets you actually work. For trades chasing the busiest terms, our SEO campaign (£99.99 a month, month to month, no contract) does the ongoing work.
Can I show my Google reviews on the website?
Yes. The Google reviews widget is a £3.99-a-month add-on that pulls your Google reviews and star rating straight onto your site, so someone comparing three plumbers at half nine at night sees the proof without leaving your page.
How fast can it go live? I need work coming in now.
Usually within a week of getting your details and photos. If you’ve got a busy season coming, tell us and we’ll work to it.
Can we meet in person to talk it through?
Yes. We’re at the Blackpool Enterprise Centre on Lytham Road, FY4 - message first and we’ll arrange a time, or we’ll sort the whole thing over WhatsApp and email around your jobs. Most trades never have to down tools for it.
Do I own the website?
Your .co.uk domain is registered in your name from day one, so it’s yours whatever happens. Complete 12 months with us and the website and all its files are yours to keep as well. Leave earlier and the build stays with us, but your domain and content always go with you (an early domain transfer is a £15 admin charge). It’s all in the terms, in plain English.