For plumbers · free to look, pay only to publish
Answer two questions above the fold, on a cracked phone screen, one-handed: do you come out here, and can I reach you now. Type your company name and your town and we build that page — services, areas covered, hours, your number one tap from dialling. Looking at it costs nothing.
§ 01 — what the page has to do
The person reading it has water coming through a ceiling, or no heating on the coldest night of the year, or a landlord on the other line. They will give your page about eight seconds and they will give it one thumb. Everything that is not an answer to “can this person help me, right now, here” is in the way — and most plumbers’ sites are ninety per cent in the way.
A named list of the places you cover — the suburbs, the villages, the postcodes people actually say out loud. Not “the greater area”, which tells nobody anything and loses you the call to whoever wrote their town down.
Your number as a dialling link at the very top of the page, again as the big button under your name, again in the emergency block, again beside the areas you cover, again in the contact block and again in the footer — six places on one page. Plus what your out-of-hours actually is. This is the highest-value element on a plumber’s website and it is usually a photograph of a telephone.
Your services with whatever pricing you are willing to state — a call-out from, a service from, quoted per job. You decide what to publish. What you publish, we put on; what you do not, we do not invent.
Everything above comes from what you type and what you send us. Nothing is written on your behalf — no reviews, no claims about your business, no numbers you did not give us. Build mine — free
Nobody browses a plumber at leisure. They pick the first one who looks reachable.
§ 02 — the proof
This is not an example of the kind of thing we do. Ridgeway Plumbing & Heating is a complete plumbing website — a two-van outfit in Asheville, North Carolina — with six priced services, nine named service areas, emergency hours and a working quote form. It runs on the same system that will serve yours. Open it on your phone and put it through its paces.
DEMO-TRADERidgeway Plumbing & Heating · demonstration build
Emergency leaks from $180 call-out. Boiler service from $140. Bathrooms quoted per job. Nine areas listed by name. Emergency cover, twenty-four hours. Everything a person in trouble needs, and nothing they have to scroll past to get to it.
The address, in full openhousesites.com/app/for/ridgeway-plumbing-heating-asheville-nc Ridgeway Plumbing & Heating is a demonstration business — invented so that a plumber’s site could be built out end to end, priced services and all. The site is real and answers at that address. The company is not.
Yours gets built the same way, with plumbers in mind instead of somebody else's trade. Build mine — free
§ 03 — the bill
Starts at
59 US dollars per month
Cancel any time, by email.
Or pay once — $599, and no monthly fee. $599 is about ten months of $59, and it covers twelve. Twelve months of the monthly plan comes to $708, so paying once keeps $109 in your pocket and leaves nothing to cancel. In pounds: £499 once, against £588 over a year. You choose at the moment you publish, not before.
14 days to change your mind Full refund, no reason required — on one email to contact@openhousesites.com. Back to the card that paid it.
Build my site — freeNothing is charged while you look. The payment button only appears once your site exists and you have read it.
No retainer. No lock-in. After the first year, keep it with us or take it anywhere you like — it is yours. And none of it costs anything until you say publish.
§ 04 — straight answers, for plumbers
Because a recommendation ends in a search. Someone gives your name at a barbecue, and that evening the neighbour types it into a phone. If nothing comes up, or what comes up is a directory profile between three of your competitors and an advert, you have paid for the recommendation and somebody else has collected on it. A site of your own is where that search is supposed to land.
No. You decide what goes on, service by service. Some plumbers publish a call-out rate and quote the rest; some publish nothing and just list what they do. Both work. What we will not do is invent a figure or promise something on your behalf — if the page says a quote is free, it is because you told us it is.
Yes, and you should. Send us the towns, villages, suburbs or postcodes as you would say them on the phone, and they go on the page as a named list. That list is doing two jobs at once: it reassures the person reading, and it puts the place names on your page in text.
From $59 a month — £49 in the United Kingdom, billed in pounds — and one email cancels it whenever you want. Or pay once: $599, or £499, which covers the first twelve months with no monthly fee, so there is nothing to cancel. That is about ten months of $59, and it covers twelve. Either way: your own domain connected, hosting and SSL, the working quote form, one round of revisions. Building it and reading it costs nothing, and if you pay and change your mind you have fourteen days for a full refund.
§ 05 — not your trade?
Whatever you do, the front door is the same one: the Openhouse home page, or type your trade straight into the form and we build from that.
Free to look · pay only to publish
That is genuinely the whole thing. Two fields here, your town on the next screen, and we build your plumber site. You read all of it, on your own phone, on your own time — and then you decide whether it is worth $59 a month.
Then your site already exists. The link in that email opens it — or type your access code in here.
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