Website for building contractors

How people choose a contractor for a renovation

Word of mouth is still the main channel in construction. But word of mouth works like this: a happy client mentions your name, and whoever hears it looks it up on Google. If they find a website with your projects, the name becomes a phone call. If they find only an address on a map, it becomes a doubt.

It matters for the people who work with you too: architects, property managers, public-sector clients. A tidy website with your references is the simplest way to be taken seriously by people who don’t know you yet.

What to put on a building contractor’s website

The site comes with the sections for businesses that work to order — services, work, quote — and grows with your projects as you photograph them.

• What you do Renovations, new builds, façades, roofs, insulation, demolition. One line per type of work, in the words the client would use.
• Projects Before, during and after. Three photos and three lines per project — where, what, how long — beat any catalogue.
• How you work From site visit to quote, from permits to handover. People renovating for the first time are mostly afraid of what they don’t know: explaining it to them is already half the job.
• Who you are How many years, how many people, who runs the site. Even a photo of the team in hard hats is worth more than a sentence about professionalism.
• Areas covered The towns and regions where you take on work, listed by name.
• Site visit request The button that ends the page: call, email or WhatsApp, with your office address.

Three templates for building contractors

All twenty-eight templates are available, and none costs more. These three are the most natural starting points: you can switch template later without losing your text.

• Lastra Glass, metal and raking light: made to make materials look solid, because they are.
• Deriva Jobs slide sideways as the page scrolls down, one at a time: a portfolio of projects, not a list.
• Attivo Direct and commercial, sharp edges and a single colour. It’s instantly clear who you are and what you do.

Getting found in local searches

“Building contractor Bellinzona”, “flat renovation Lugano”, “roof replacement Leventina”: these are searches by people who have already decided to spend. A LyamFlow site starts with a title containing name, trade and town; every project you describe with its location adds a search you can answer.

What makes the difference over time:

• describing each project with the town and the type of work, not just with photos;
• linking the site to the firm’s Google Business Profile and keeping it alive with new photos;
• asking happy clients for a review once the work is handed over, while the enthusiasm is still fresh.

Projects, clients and invoices in one place

The website is free even on its own. LyamFlow’s management software for businesses that work to order adds jobs that run for days or weeks, the calendar, the price list for your work, each client’s documents and takings.

Invoices come out as PDFs with the Swiss QR-bill and go out by email. A fourteen-day trial, then the Basic plan.

How it works, trade by trade: management software for your business.

What it costs

• Free the website, forever Every template and every section, published at lyamflow.com/s/calcestre. No credit card.
• CHF 9 / month your own domain Optional: your own .ch or .it address instead of the free one, plus the domain registration.
• CHF 29.90 / month Basic plan, with the management software Long-running jobs, calendar, documents, price list and invoices with QR-bill. After a 14-day trial.

Frequently asked questions

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