Websites for groundworkers, built before you pay.
I build websites for groundworkers in Worcestershire and across the UK. Groundwork is big money and the customer is nervous about it, so the website has to show you have done it before, properly. I build yours first, finished, and you only pay if you want it: £650, or nothing. I trained in plumbing and heating and ran my own firm with 7 full-time staff, so I know the trades.
£0 to see it finished
£650 if you want it live
Or WhatsApp me One message is enough to start.
I’m Archie Spencer. I build every site myself.
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“Really made things easy for me as I’ve got not much experience on computers, but he sorted everything.”
Real sites, live now. Open any of them.
There is no groundworker among my live sites yet. That is why yours is built first: you judge your own site, not a promise. The nearest match is Luke Cross Plastering, a plasterer near Bridgwater: one page built from photos of his own jobs, with every one of his Google reviews on it, word for word, and his number at the top.
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Livelukecrossplastering.co.uk
Luke Cross Plastering
Plasterer, Bridgwater and Taunton
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Livepaularmstrongfitness.co.uk
Paul Armstrong Fitness
Personal trainer, Alcester
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Livemyheru.com
HERU
Building infrastructure, Bidford-on-Avon
“If you're a small business needing a website, I'd definitely recommend him.”
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Brilliant website and great support throughout. Archie built a new website for my fitness business and I'm really pleased with it. It's clean, looks professional and is easy to find your way around, which is exactly what I wanted.
I'm not techy at all, but Archie helped me through the whole process and explained everything I needed to do in plain English. Nothing was too much trouble. If you're a small business needing a website, I'd definitely recommend him.
I’ll build it first. You decide after.
Tell me the trade name, the town you work out of, and the jobs you want more of. I send you three homepage designs within a day, then build the whole website in the one you pick, every page written, usually in about 2 days, and send you a link. Look at it in your own time, with whoever else has a say.
If you want it, it’s £650: a £162.50 deposit once you’re happy with the design, and the rest within 7 days of it going live. If you don’t, say so and it comes down. You pay nothing, and I won’t follow it up.
What is yours, and the small print
- Your domain (your web address, like yourbusiness.co.uk) is bought in your name, on your card. About £10 a year, paid to the company you buy it from, not to me. I send you a one-page guide to buying it.
- Every login is handed over in writing once it is paid for, and the hosting moves to an account in your name at no cost. Nothing is locked to me.
- No monthly fee unless you choose monthly care: £29 a month for up to five changes, stop any time.
- If you change your mind after saying yes, the 25% is kept for the work done. If I can’t get it live for a reason on my side, it comes back in full.
- You pay by bank transfer to the account named on the invoice. My bank details will never change by message.
What groundworkers need from a website.
The front driveway rules, in plain English
In England, laying more than five square metres of a front garden with a hard surface that water cannot soak through needs planning permission. Permeable paving, or letting the water run off onto a lawn or border, does not. Most homeowners have never heard of it. Say which you lay and why, and you sound like the firm that will not land them with a problem.
Dropped kerbs
A new driveway often means a dropped kerb, and that needs the council’s permission, usually with their own approved contractors. Say whether you handle it or explain how it works. It is the question people only think of after they have paid somebody else.
Show what is underneath
Photos mid-job: the dig, the sub-base going in and compacted, the edging set before a single block goes down. People trust a driveway they have seen being built properly underneath, and it is the part the cheapest quote always skips.
If the digger goes out, say how
With a driver or without, by the day or by the job, and how wide a gap it needs to get through. A page like that brings builders and landscapers to you as well as homeowners, and it answers the first three questions before the phone rings.
One page per job, not one page for groundworks
Driveways, drainage, footings and foundations, patios and paths, site clearance, mini digger hire. Different searches, different money, different customers. A page for each gives the search engines something to rank and the customer what they came for.
Your real area, named
About ten miles round the town you work out of, with the places listed. “The Midlands” tells nobody anything and brings you jobs that are an hour and a half each way. A drawn map with the river, the motorway and the towns on it does the job better than an embedded Google map, and it loads instantly.
What usually goes wrong.
Already got a website? Check your current one
Plenty of good groundworkers have no website at all: jobs posted on Facebook, a Google listing with no site on it, and the big jobs going to whoever looks the most established.
The sites that do exist have the same faults. The number is not a link.
No town is named. The photos are a stock digger on a building site somewhere else entirely. Nothing about drainage, nothing about what goes under the blocks, nothing about the driveway rules. And the enquiry form goes to an inbox nobody reads.
Fair questions, answered plainly.
What groundworkers ask before they get in touch, with straight answers.
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Fair questions
What should a groundworker’s website show?
Photographs of your own jobs, including the work underneath, a page for each kind of job, how you handle drainage and dropped kerbs, and the towns you cover.
Does a new driveway need planning permission?
In England, not if it uses permeable paving or drains onto a lawn or border. Covering more than five square metres of a front garden with a surface water cannot soak through does need permission.
Most of my work is word of mouth. Do I still need a website?
Yes. The person you were recommended to looks you up before they get in touch, and the website is what they find. More on why word of mouth still needs a website.
How much does a groundworker’s website cost?
£0 to see it. £650 for the website built and live on your own domain: £162.50 when you say yes and £487.50 within 7 days of it going live. Or £900 with a year of changes, up to five a month. A one-page website is £350.
How long does it take?
Three homepage designs within a day, then usually about 2 days to build. Then you look at it in your own time, before deciding anything. Once you say yes, it goes live within 3 working days of your last change, and within 14 days at most.
What’s the catch?
Here is everything it can cost you. If it’s a no, nothing. If it’s a yes, 25% to go ahead: it is kept if you change your mind before the site goes live, and refunded in full if I can’t get it live for a reason on my side. The rest is due within 7 days of it going live. Your domain is about £10 a year, paid by you. Changes after it goes live are £50 for up to five, unless you have the year of changes or monthly care, and you send them to me: there is no editor to log into. And nobody can promise you a place on Google, me included.
yourbusiness.co.ukNot built yet
Send me your business and I’ll build it.
Your business name, what you do and where. That is enough to start. I build it, send you the link, and it costs you nothing to see it.
You deal with me, Archie Spencer. I build every site myself. I reply within 24 hours.
Said yes on a call already? You don’t need this form. Your link comes through on WhatsApp.
Got it, thank you. It has come straight to me.
I reply within 24 hours. Within a day I send you three homepage designs. Pick one and I build the whole website, usually in about 2 days. Nothing is payable unless you want it.
Got photos or a logo? Send them on WhatsApp, or email archie@archiespencer.com.
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