Websites for bricklayers that win the work.

A great deal of bricklaying is bought by other builders. Main contractors, developers and extension builders hire bricklayers on a price per thousand or a day rate, and choose on whether you turn up with enough hands, lay to line and keep the job moving. They find you by word of mouth and check your site to confirm you are real and can handle their size of job. Homeowners are a separate market: garden and boundary walls, chimney rebuilds, repointing an old house, small extensions where they are managing the trades themselves. They care about new work matching the old - the brick, the mortar colour, the joint profile - and on older houses, whether you understand lime. They are slower to decide and far more influenced by photographs of walls that look like theirs.

When demand peaks. Mortar cannot be laid in frost, so bricklaying slows in the coldest weeks and contractors book gangs hard from spring. Homeowner walls and repointing peak in spring and summer.

Many bricklayers have no website at all, and the ones that exist are usually a single page with a phone number and a photo of a half-built wall. That is enough for a builder who already knows you and not enough for anyone else. Homeowners need to see matching work - new brick beside old, repointing on period houses, curved and decorative work - and whether you take small jobs. Contractors want gang size, areas covered, cards, insurance, and whether you work labour-only or supply-and-lay. Most sites answer neither audience, so both ring someone else.