When their heating goes, they ring whoever answers.
A website for a plumber or a heating engineer is judged in seconds. The person judging it is cold, worried about the cost, and holding a phone. It has to say you cover them, you are Gas Safe registered, and here is the number. We build that, and the system behind it that stops the enquiry getting lost.
Breakdowns, servicing, landlord certificates, bathrooms and full installs. Suffolk and north Essex.
What does somebody with no heating actually want from your website?
Three things, in this order: are you Gas Safe registered, do you cover me, and how do I ring you now. Everything else on the page is for a different visitor on a different day. A hero photograph and a paragraph about your values, above a phone number they have to hunt for, loses that job to whoever put the number at the top.
What a page like that is built to do →Why does a boiler page need to read differently from a bathroom page?
Because the person reading it is in a completely different state, and most trade sites write both the same way. Same business, same engineer, and the pages should not sound alike.
No heating, half past ten at night
Six words a line. Are you coming, when, roughly what will it cost. The number enormous and tappable. Competence, not charm, and no story about the company.
Thinking about a new boiler since March
They are not in a hurry and they are frightened of being sold to. This page can afford paragraphs: what happens, in what order, how long, what changes the price, photographs of real installs.
A landlord with a certificate due
This one is a date, not a decision. They want to book it and stop thinking about it, and they will use whoever makes that easiest. That is a back office job more than a website one, and it is how you keep them year after year.
A bathroom, being planned for months
Proof and process. Real photographs of finished rooms beat anything written, and this is the page where a gallery earns its place rather than filling space.
Where does my Gas Safe registration go on the site?
Your number, in text, near the top, and in the footer of every page. In text rather than in a picture, because a number inside an image cannot be read by a search engine, an assistant, or somebody using a screen reader, and it is the single strongest trust signal you own.
Every scheme on your page is checked on the register that issued it, with the date written down. A customer can do the same in seconds, which is why the number carries more weight than the badge.
How the words get written and checked →Where does the enquiry go while I am under somebody's sink?
Into your own back office, with the customer’s photograph of the boiler attached to it. So you get to the van already knowing whether you are carrying the part.
It is on one list with where it has got to, rather than an email in a pile. It was safe the second it arrived, and the reply goes back from your own address and stays against the job.
On your phone in the van it is the same information in the order you need it: today’s calls, the address, and what they said was wrong.
What you get on a boiler enquiry, before you drive out →What happens to the job after they ring off?
A web designer builds you a website. This is the half that decides whether the business gets easier, and five agency sites were measured on 11 August 2026 with not one of them selling any of it.
The enquiry lands in your own back office
One list, with where each job has got to, instead of an email you have to remember. It is safe the second they press send, so you keep the boiler swap even when your email provider is having a bad afternoon.
The annual service comes back round on its own
Every service and every landlord certificate is a date. The system knows when it is due and puts it in front of you, which turns a one-off job into a customer you keep.
Your engineers see the day on their phones
The jobs, the address, the customer, the gate code, and work marked done with photographs. One hand, outdoors, on a bad signal, in the rain.
The paperwork happens at the job, not on Sunday
Photographs, readings and notes captured against the right job at the time it happened, instead of being reconstructed at the kitchen table three days later.
You answer from the same screen
The reply goes from your own domain, in your name, and the exact words are kept. When they reply it comes back in automatically and sits underneath.
AI on top, only where it pays
Drafting the reply, chasing the quote nobody answered, reading the numbers off a supplier invoice. Always as a draft a person approves, never sent on its own.
The back office comes with Growth and Full.
What actually gets me found for “boiler repair near me”?
The map results, which for a heating engineer matter far more than the ordinary blue links. So that is where the work goes.
What we work on is your Google Business Profile, a page that genuinely answers what somebody typed, and reviews from real customers.
We set the profile up properly, we write the pages, and we build asking for a review into the end of the job so it happens without you remembering.
How the listing work is done →What does a heating engineer's website cost?
The prices are on the home page and they do not change depending on who is asking. Three of the five agencies measured make you request a quote first.
A one-off to build it, then a monthly to run it
The build is the site, the words, the photographs organised, the Business Profile set up and the whole thing live on your own domain. The monthly is hosting, changes and keeping it working.
The back office and the app are the step up
Every plan starts with a website that works properly, and you get the enquiries whatever you are paying. Above it is where the enquiry turns into a job, the services come back round, and your engineers get the app.
Anything passed through, we say so
Your domain, and your advertising budget if you run ads, are yours and go straight to whoever provides them. Our fee is our fee and it is never quoted as though it covered your spend.
Yours to keep
The site is yours, in your name, and so is everything in it. One month's notice, and that month is when we hand it all over.
Every price we charge is on one page, with exactly what each tier covers.
Will an assistant send somebody my way?
People describe the symptom now rather than searching for a trade. They tell an assistant the boiler is losing pressure and ask who to ring, and one answer comes back. Google writes the same sort of answer above the blue links on an ordinary search.
- An assistant matches what your pages actually say. So the faults you diagnose, the makes you work on, your out-of-hours terms and what a call-out costs have to be written down.
- The symptom pages are the ones that get quoted. A page answering why the water goes cold after ten minutes is worth more here than a page listing services.
- It is the same work as ordinary search, in Google's own words, so there is nothing extra to buy.
What catches heating engineers out when they change website?
Losing the email on the day of the switchover. The settings that point your website at where it lives sit alongside the ones that point your email at your mailbox, and the commonest way this goes wrong is somebody moving the first and taking the second down with it.
For a trade where the enquiries arrive by email that is a day of jobs gone and no way to know what you missed. We write down every record before anything changes, move the site, and leave the mail records exactly where they are.
The whole switchover, step by step →Where does the money actually go?
Into a page for every town you genuinely work in. Google filters out the ones aimed at towns a business does not really cover, so those are the pages that win you nothing.
Into listings on the registers a customer would actually search, and your Gas Safe number in text where anybody can check it. Never a bought link.
Into a page written when there is something real to say. Website chat goes on once there are enough visitors for somebody to be answering it.
What we do charge for, on one page →What would it be worth to stop missing the calls?
Where the calls come from, what happens to the ones you miss, and what you end up doing in the evenings. Nothing to pay for the conversation.
Nothing to pay, and nothing to sign. We come out to twenty towns across Suffolk and north Essex, and the home page has the prices and what is in each tier.
What else is worth reading?
Every page here answers one question properly rather than skimming five. These are the others, and each one says what it is before you click it.
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Foothold AI: websites and AI for local service businesses
A website that gets found, a back office that runs the day, and an app for your team. From £295 to set up and £99 a month. Suffolk based, UK wide.
Where we work: Suffolk and north Essex
Twenty towns across Suffolk and north Essex, from Sudbury. Most are twenty or thirty minutes away, and the person who builds your site comes out.