Two very different customers land on the same page: the one with a leak this morning and the one planning a bathroom for the spring. The first wants a phone number, the second wants photos and a price range.
References are the strongest currency here: before and after, with the town, the time it took and roughly what it cost. That convinces faster than any about-us page, and it filters enquiries down to the work you actually want.
Half the enquiries die on geography: people want to know whether you come out to their town at all. A plain list of the areas you cover, and the name of whoever turns up, filters out the trips you were never going to make.
How long it takes and how much mess it makes are the questions behind every enquiry. A realistic timeline, and what happens to the kitchen or the bathroom while the work runs, closes the jobs that a price alone leaves hanging.
Explain the pricing rather than avoiding it. Which timber, which finish, how much fitting an uneven wall costs in hours: that explanation is what turns a nervous visitor into somebody willing to book a survey.
Be specific about what is made. Fitted wardrobes, staircases, alcove units, windows, gates and doors are separate specialisms with different equipment, and a general claim of carpentry attracts the wrong enquiries.
Show the awkward jobs. A sloping ceiling, a curved wall or a chimney breast is where made-to-measure earns its price, and a photograph of that is more persuasive than a perfect straight run.
Say something about the material. Timber moves with humidity, joints open slightly in a new-build, and a maker who explains that in advance is trusted rather than blamed a year later.
There can be no price list because nothing is standard. What a site can do instead is explain what moves the figure — the timber, the finish, the complexity of the space — so an enquiry arrives with realistic expectations.
Say whether you make or you fit. A joiner producing something in a workshop and a carpenter installing what somebody else supplied are different trades, and customers use both words interchangeably without knowing.
Built around the absence of a price list: what drives the cost explained, the specialisms named, awkward spaces shown and the behaviour of real timber described honestly.
The sentence that prevents an argument next winter: wood moves, and here is what that looks like.
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