# Websites for handymen

> Websites for handymen and small property maintenance businesses, built for the customer with a list of eight small jobs and nobody who will come out for any of them.

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

There are 23,915 other building completion and finishing businesses across 376 UK local authorities (ONS UK Business Counts, SIC 43390, 2025, OGL v3.0).

## How customers choose

Handyman customers are often people the rest of the trade has turned away. They have a list - a dripping tap, a door that sticks, shelves, a curtain pole, flat-pack, a fence panel - and every specialist they rang said the job was too small. Many are older homeowners, busy professionals, or landlords with a property that needs a dozen fixes before the next tenant moves in. They decide quickly and mostly on trust: will this person turn up, be pleasant in the house and charge something reasonable. Price is usually by the hour or the half day, and they want to know the rate before they ring. Once they find someone good they keep them and pass the number to neighbours, so a handyman business is built on repeat customers - and the website is where the neighbour checks you out after being handed your number.

## What most websites in this trade get wrong

Handyman websites tend to list sixty services in a wall of text, which reads as someone who does everything and nothing particularly well. Customers want three things: what sort of jobs you do, what you charge, and whether you are safe to let in. Most sites hide the rate, show no photo of the actual person, and say nothing about what they will not do - gas, notifiable electrical work, anything structural - which is exactly the honesty that reassures people. The other miss is not making it easy to send the list. A form where someone can type out their jobs and attach photos turns a vague call into a booked half day.

## What the website has to do

- **Half-day or hourly booking** - Batching small jobs into a half day is what makes them pay.
- **Job list submitted with photos** - You can see what tools and materials to bring, and price it before you arrive.
- **Repeat landlord and agent work** - Property managers generate a steady stream of small jobs.

## Pages

- **Home** - Your face, your rate and the kinds of jobs you do.
- **Jobs I do** - Grouped into a handful of plain categories, not a list of sixty.
- **Prices** - Hourly, half-day and day rates, minimum charge, materials.
- **Landlord and letting maintenance** - Between-tenancy fixes and ongoing repairs.
- **What I don’t do** - Gas, notifiable electrics, structural work - and who you recommend instead.
- **About** - Who will actually be coming to the house.
- **Areas covered** - Small jobs only pay close to home.
- **Contact** - Job list form with photo upload.

## Features that matter

- **Published hourly and half-day rates** - The customer is deciding whether a small job is worth paying for at all.
- **A real photo and name of the person who visits** - Letting a stranger in is the real objection, and a face answers it.
- **Job list form with photo upload** - Turns a vague call into a priced, booked visit.
- **A short “what I don’t do” section** - Knowing your limits is itself a trust signal.
- **DBS check and insurance stated plainly** - Many handyman customers are older or vulnerable, and their families check.

Trust signals: A real photo and name of the person who will visit; Basic DBS check; Public liability insurance; Published rates; Membership of a local trader vetting scheme where held.

Seasonality: Steady all year, with bursts before Christmas (shelves, pictures, flat-pack), in spring (exterior and garden jobs) and in summer between student and rental tenancies.

## Local authorities with the most

| Local authority | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Barnet | 320 |
| Ealing | 305 |
| Buckinghamshire | 305 |
| Enfield | 300 |
| Havering | 280 |
| Birmingham | 250 |
| Redbridge | 250 |
| Waltham Forest | 235 |
| Brent | 230 |
| Bromley | 230 |

## 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

### Should a handyman put an hourly rate on their website?

Yes - publishing an hourly or half-day rate is one of the most effective things a handyman website can do. Handyman customers are usually deciding whether a small job is worth paying for at all, and an unknown price makes them put it off. A clear rate, with a note on the minimum charge and materials, turns “I will get round to it” into a booking.

### Should my handyman website list the jobs I don’t do?

Listing what you do not do makes a handyman website more trustworthy, not less. Saying plainly that you leave gas work to Gas Safe engineers and notifiable electrical work to registered electricians shows you know where the lines are, which is exactly what someone letting a stranger into their home wants to see. It also saves you from calls you would have to turn down.

### Should I list every town I cover?

List the towns you genuinely work in and would happily travel to. A short honest list produces better enquiries than a long optimistic one, and it stops you spending your day quoting for jobs ninety minutes away that you were never going to take.