A plumber site concept for the southeast side

Big Cove Plumbing & Drain is a design concept: a residential plumber's site for southeast Huntsville and Hampton Cove. It is not client work, and the business is made up. We built it the way we build for clients, to show what a home-service site for this side of town looks like when the customer's questions are answered on the page.

What it does

It names the neighborhoods it serves, so a homeowner in Hampton Cove or Owens Cross Roads knows in a glance that the truck comes there. Each kind of work has its own page. The thing most plumber sites hide, the price, is on the page as a set price in writing, so a customer knows what a call-out costs before they make it. The phone is tappable at the top of every page, and a service request form goes to the owner's inbox for the jobs that are not urgent.

Why we built it that way

A home-service customer on the southeast side is usually on a phone, comparing two or three results, and chooses the one that answers the most questions fastest: do you come here, do you do this, what does it cost, how do I reach you. A site that answers all four on the first screen is the one that gets the call. You can open the sample from the Services page and see it on your own phone.

Photo: the Flint River at Hays Nature Preserve by GranCavallo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Flint River at Hays Nature Preserve with trees turning in the fall

A set price in writing

The concept shows how a price in writing can sit on a page without scaring customers off. It is the same thing we do with our own prices: the floor on the page, the written price before anything starts.

One page for Hampton Cove and Owens Cross Roads

Hampton Cove and Owens Cross Roads sit side by side on the southeast side of Huntsville, and a business in one almost always serves the other, so one page covers both rather than two pages saying the same thing. The businesses there are the ones you would expect on the edge of a city: home-service trades that work the neighborhoods, and the offices, shops and services that serve the people who live in them. For a trade, the site names both places and the parts of Huntsville it reaches, and the Google Business Profile lists the same towns. For a shop or an office, hours, directions and what you do come first.

A standard five-page site starts at $2,450; a full site with a page for each service starts at $3,400. You get the price in writing before anything starts, you own the site and the domain, and there is no long-term contract.

Common questions

Do you serve Owens Cross Roads?

Yes. This page covers Hampton Cove and Owens Cross Roads together, because a business in one nearly always serves the other. The site we build names both, and the Google Business Profile lists both.

Do I get a price in writing?

Yes, after the first call and before anything starts. The price includes the timeline, and the floors are $2,450 for five pages and $3,400 with a page for each service.

Can my prices go on the site like the concept's?

If you want them there, yes. A set price in writing is a strong thing for a home-service site to show, and the plumber concept shows one way to do it. Whether and how to show your prices is your call, and we talk it through on the first call.

Get a price for your site

Tell us about your business on the southeast side. You get the price in writing before anything starts.