A Website Builder for Plumbers and Contractors

Every tradesperson has a quiet-season list. Sort the van racking. Chase the invoice from March. Finally do the website.

The van gets sorted. The invoice gets chased. The website survives to next year's list, untouched, the way it has since you started — because a website is a different kind of job. It has no fixed scope, no obvious first step, and forty small decisions about fonts and photos that nobody under a sink at 8am has any appetite for. You're a plumber, an electrician, an HVAC engineer, a roofer, a painter. You finish real jobs all day. This one never starts.

Meanwhile it costs you work you never see. A homeowner with a leak shortlists the plumbers she can look up. Three have websites; you have a number on a card that's been on her fridge for a year. She doesn't ring four people — she rings the three she can check first, and one of them answers.

Why website builders don't fix this

Search "website builder for plumbers" and you'll find plenty of tools that will happily sell you the same project you've been avoiding, restated as software. Pick a template. Write your own copy. Source your own photos. Wire up a contact form. The builder isn't the bottleneck and never was — your evenings are. A drag-and-drop editor doesn't put hours back in the week; it just gives the unstarted project a login page.

The honest requirement is a website that gets built without you doing a build. That's a conversation, not a canvas.

Say what you do; the site takes shape

With Blinko, the contractor website is included with the Business plan — and setup is a chat with Blinko Copilot, not a project plan. You say what you actually do: "domestic plumbing and bathroom fits", or "electrics and EV chargers", or "roofing, gutters, exterior painting". Multi-trade is fine — tell it everything and it lays the site out around your services.

The questions are all skippable and mostly prefilled from your Blinko business profile, so the whole thing fits in the gap between two jobs. Copilot drafts the site at yourname.blinkolocal.com from a trades template, you read it in the van, and nothing goes live until you approve it. Regret a change later? One-click rollback restores the previous version.

Updates work the same way. Started taking on commercial work? Say so. New photos of a loft conversion? Send them over and tell Copilot where they go. Your phone number and hours you never edit at all — they sync from your Blinko profile automatically.

The enquiry form is a quote request pointed at strangers

Here's the part that earns its keep. If you already use Blinko, you know how quote requests work with existing customers: the details arrive written down, with photos, instead of trickling in over a phone call you couldn't take.

Your website gives that same front door to people who've never met you. The homeowner describes the job, attaches photos of the dripping boiler or the cracked flashing, and sends it — at 9pm, when trades get researched. You get a push alert, and the enquiry lands in your leads inbox with everything you need to price it. No voicemail tag, no "can you describe the noise?", no lead going to the next name on the list because you were on a roof when she called.

Speed matters here more than polish. The first tradesperson to reply with a sensible question usually gets the job — and it's easier to be first when the enquiry reaches your pocket the moment it's sent.

Found by search, typed to your trade

Every site ships search-ready — sitemap, canonical tags, and LocalBusiness schema typed to your trade, so search engines read a plumber's site as a plumber's site, not a generic business page. Analytics are cookie-free, which means no cookie banner standing between a visitor and your enquiry form.

None of this needs anything from you. It's the sort of invisible work you'd never have got round to, done by default.

Cross the website off for good

The point isn't having a website; it's what having one unblocks. You appear on the shortlist. Recommendations get a link instead of a half-remembered name. Night-time research turns into a written enquiry with photos, waiting for you at 7am.

And the project that's haunted your quiet-season list for years? It's a conversation you can finish this week.

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