# Websites for bricklayers

> Websites for bricklayers that talk to two buyers at once: the builder who needs a gang that turns up, and the homeowner who wants a garden wall or repointing done properly.

- Source: https://nerdsharks.com/industries/bricklayers
- Publisher: Nerdsharks (Exeter, Devon, UK)
- Updated: 2026-09-27

There are 24,345 specialist construction businesses not classified elsewhere across 377 UK local authorities (ONS UK Business Counts, SIC 43999, 2025, OGL v3.0).

## How customers choose

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.

## What most websites in this trade get wrong

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.

## What the website has to do

- **Contractor enquiries for labour-only and supply-and-lay work** - Steady volume from builders keeps a gang busy.
- **Homeowner quote requests with photos** - Walls and repointing can often be priced from photos and a measurement.
- **Period and lime work** - Specialist, better-paid and hard for customers to find anyone for.

## Pages

- **Home** - Split contractor and homeowner routes straight away.
- **Extensions and new-build brickwork** - Scale, speed and gang capacity.
- **Garden and boundary walls** - The most common homeowner job.
- **Repointing and lime work** - Period properties and why the mortar matters.
- **Chimney repairs and rebuilds** - Separately searched and often urgent after storms.
- **Work for contractors** - Gang size, cards, insurance, how you price.
- **Projects** - Matched brickwork, with the brick and mortar named.
- **Contact** - Separate options for trade and domestic enquiries.

## Features that matter

- **Separate contractor and homeowner routes from the homepage** - The two buyers want completely different information.
- **Photos of matched and period brickwork with materials named** - Matching the existing house is the homeowner’s main worry.
- **Contractor page with gang size, CSCS cards and insurance** - This is what a main contractor checks before calling.
- **Photo upload on the homeowner quote form** - Most small jobs can be scoped from a photo.
- **An honest minimum job size** - Saves both of you a wasted call about a single loose brick.

Trust signals: Photographs of matched and period brickwork; CSCS cards for the gang; Public liability insurance; Contractors you regularly work for, named with permission; Lime and heritage experience where genuine.

Seasonality: 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.

## Local authorities with the most

| Local authority | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Cornwall | 270 |
| Somerset | 265 |
| West Northamptonshire | 230 |
| Havering | 225 |
| Buckinghamshire | 220 |
| North Yorkshire | 220 |
| Birmingham | 200 |
| Newry, Mourne and Down | 195 |
| Wiltshire | 190 |
| Dorset | 190 |

## The offer

- **Monthly**: £299 upfront, £99/month (the upfront is a setup fee), 12-month minimum term. We build it, host it and look after it - and after 24 monthly payments, it is yours.
- **Own It**: £1,795 upfront, £49/month, no minimum term. Buy the website outright. It is yours to keep, move or cancel.
- **Pro**: £6,950 upfront, £299/month, 12-month minimum term. No limits. For large, multi-site and fast-growing businesses.
- Payment: The setup fee is paid when you book, and it starts the design. Monthly fees are collected by Direct Debit, covered by the Direct Debit Guarantee, from the day your site goes live.
- Guarantee: You see your finished design on your phone and approve it before anything goes live, with two full rounds of changes included. Nothing launches until you are happy with it. The Monthly plan runs for 12 months from launch.
- Bolt-ons: Google Business Profile management £29/month; Local SEO pack £49/month; Business email £5/month. Coming soon, not yet on sale: Missed-call text back, Review booster.
- VAT: We are not VAT registered, so there is no VAT to add to these prices.

## Questions

### Does a bricklayer’s website need to speak to builders and homeowners separately?

Yes - builders and homeowners want different information, so a bricklayer’s website works best with a separate route for each. A contractor wants gang size, how you price, areas covered, CSCS cards and insurance; a homeowner wants to see walls like theirs and know whether you take small jobs. Two short, clear pages beat one page trying to say everything to everyone.

### Should I say on my website that I don’t take small bricklaying jobs?

If there is a size of job you do not take, saying so on your website saves you and the customer time. A line as simple as “we take on work from a day upwards” stops the calls about a single loose brick. If you do welcome small jobs, say that instead - plenty of homeowners assume bricklayers only work for builders and never ask.

### What if I do not have photographs of my work?

Start taking them now, on your phone, before and after every job. Photographs of your own finished work convert better than any stock image or any amount of copy, and in the trades they are the single biggest factor in the size of job you get asked to quote for. We will lay out the site to work with whatever you have and improve as you build up a library.