Websites for drainage engineers
Web design for drainage engineers: £249.99 to build, then £49.99 a month, no minimum term. Emergency work pays the bills. Make the phone number impossible to miss.
A blocked drain is an emergency in a way most trades never see: it is unpleasant, it stops the household functioning, and it gets worse by the hour. The customer will ring the first firm that looks like it will come out.
Behind that sits more considered work — surveys, repairs, relining — usually driven by a house sale or an insurance claim, and bought quite differently.
What your customers want answered
- How quickly can you get here, and do you work at night
- What does a call-out cost, and is it fixed
- Is this blockage my responsibility or the water company's
- Can you find out what is wrong without digging up the garden
- Do you do the repair as well as the clearing
Explain who owns which pipeHouseholders are frequently unaware that many shared drains and sewers beyond their boundary became the water company's responsibility, and that some of what they are about to pay for may not be theirs to fix. A firm that explains this before taking the job is trusted with everything that follows.
No mention of the camera survey
A recorded survey turns an invisible problem into something a customer can see, which is what justifies a repair quote and what an insurer or a buyer's solicitor will want. Not offering it leaves the firm arguing about work nobody can verify.
Blocked drains are urgent
Most drainage enquiries start with a blockage or a smell, often out of hours. Put your number, availability and area at the top, and say how pricing works for call-outs, because people want to know before they ring.
Then the planned work
CCTV drain surveys, drain repairs and relining, new drainage for extensions, soakaways and pre-purchase surveys are planned jobs, and each is a separate search. A short page for each lets you explain what is involved and when it is needed. Homebuyers and landlords in particular look for CCTV surveys.
If you provide survey reports with footage, say so and describe what the customer receives.
Explain without the jargon
Customers rarely know the difference between a drain and a sewer, or who is responsible for which part. A plain explanation of what is usually the homeowner's responsibility and what is the water company's helps people, and it saves you calls about shared sewers.
Common questions
- What should a drainage company's website include?
- Your number and hours first, how call-out pricing works, separate pages for unblocking, CCTV surveys, repairs and new drainage, what a survey report contains, the areas you cover and a plain explanation of responsibilities.
- Should I explain who is responsible for drains?
- Briefly, yes. It answers a common question and builds trust.
- Do I need a page for CCTV surveys?
- Yes. Homebuyers and landlords search for it specifically.
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