Websites for carpenters
Carpentry is looked at from a foot away. The mitre on the skirting, the gap round a door, the way a wardrobe meets a sloping ceiling: that’s what your website should show.
A few minutes.
Free to look. £19 a month to go live, for six months, then £29.
Made to measure, and photographed that way
A fitted wardrobe in an awkward alcove or a staircase you built from scratch is worth more than a list of services. Take a photo straight on, then one close enough to see the joints.
Put each piece in your past jobs with a short note, oak floating shelves or a run of loft cupboards. We turn it into a paragraph somebody can picture in their own house.
People ask for a carpenter by name
A good joiner gets passed on by word of mouth, so somebody may search for you having heard your first name and little else. Your website can speak as you, with your first name on its buttons.
If you run a workshop with a few hands, keep it speaking as the business instead. You choose which on your account and change it whenever you like.
First fix, second fix, and the bespoke bit
The builder ticks a carpenter’s usual work for you, wardrobes, kitchens, doors and frames, skirting, decking and staircases. Flooring, loft boarding and garden gates sit further down the list.
Keep the ones that are yours and add the rest in your own words. Anything you’d turn down, like window repairs or flat pack, stays off your website altogether.
Your jobs, ticked for you
Step three of the builder starts carpenters with these. Keep them, untick them, or add your own.
Ticked to start with
- Fitted wardrobes
- Kitchen fitting
- Doors & frames
- Skirting & architrave
- Decking
- Staircases
On the list to add
- Flooring
- Shelving & storage
- Garden gates
- Window repairs
- Loft boarding
- Bespoke joinery
The carpenter we made up
To show the shape of one, we made up Pryce Joinery, in Penarth, and built its website with our own builder. Its past jobs:
- Alcove wardrobes in a front bedroom, Penarth
- Sash windows mended, not replaced, Cardiff
- Shelves beside the chimney breast, Dinas Powys
- A new balustrade, Barry
- Doors hung through the house, Sully
Questions
- I do a lot of work for kitchen fitters. Should that go on?
- Only if you want homeowners to ring you about it. Leave kitchen fitting ticked and it goes on your services; untick it and your website stays about the work you want.
- Can I change the words if they don’t sound like me?
- Yes. Every line can be rewritten from your editor, by you or by asking for it in plain English. Your edits wait in a draft, and your live website moves only when you press Publish.
How it works
Three simple stepsTell us about your business
Your trade, your town, the jobs you take on. Rough answers are fine: we do the writing.
We write and build it
A website written from your answers and nothing else, laid out in one of our designs, that reads right on a phone. No logo? We’ll draw you one from your business name.
You look, change, decide
Change anything, in your own words. Nothing goes live until you subscribe.
A few minutes.
Free to look. £19 a month to go live, for six months, then £29.