A plumber gets the call when water is somewhere it should not be. The person ringing has a towel on the floor and two tabs open, and they are checking three things in about twenty seconds: do you cover their part of Dublin, do you do emergency callouts and will you answer, and are you RGI registered if the boiler is involved. Websites for plumbers in Dublin win or lose on those three answers and on how big the phone number is.
Three kinds of call, one site
The emergency call wants your number, your hours and your area, and nothing in the way. The planned job, a bathroom, a new tap, a toilet that runs, a radiator that will not heat, wants photos of your work, an idea of price and a way to send you a picture and get a quote. The landlord or letting agent wants to know you turn up, invoice properly and hold the right registration, because they will use you for ten houses if the first one goes well.
One site carries all three. The call and WhatsApp buttons sit at the top of every page. Each service gets its own short page with photos and a “from” price if you want to give one. And the enquiry form takes a photo of the leak or the old cylinder, so the quote starts before you get in the van.
What earns the trust
Your RGI registration number on the page for anyone whose job touches gas, because customers have learned to ask and the ones who have not should be told. Your insurance. The areas you cover, written as the postcodes and towns people actually type. Photos of real jobs: a bathroom you fitted, a boiler with the pipework neat, a cylinder in a hot press, the van with your name on the side. Reviews, which for a plumber say “came when he said he would” more often than anything about pipes.
Google does more than the website
Most plumbers are rung from the Google card before the person ever opens the site. So the Google Business Profile is set up as a service area business, with the home address hidden if you work from home, the right categories, your hours for emergency work, and photos. Behind it, the site carries a page for each part of Dublin you cover, which is what the hub of areas we build for is about. The service area part is explained in how to set up a Google Business Profile in Ireland.
We do not promise a position on the map. We set it up right, keep it right, and send you the number of calls and direction requests it produced each month.
The year under the sink
The first cold week in October or November brings the boilers that did not get serviced. A cold snap in January brings frozen pipes and burst ones. Christmas week brings the calls nobody wants to make and everybody makes. Summer brings bathrooms, outside taps and the jobs people have been putting off. When you are booked out, the edit page lets you put “no new bookings until the 20th, emergencies only” at the top of the site from your phone in a minute, and take it down when the week clears.
Your homework, about ten minutes of it
Your list of services, the areas you cover, your RGI number, a line about insurance, your hours and what you do about out-of-hours calls, whether you charge a callout fee and whether you want to state it, twenty photos of jobs and the van, and the number that should ring. If you have a Google listing already, whoever has the login.
Plan and price
Plumbers live off the phone, so Essentials at €499 to set up and €50 a month does the job: the site, the .ie domain in your name, the Google listing, the buttons, the form and the monthly report. Complete at €1,499 and €100 a month earns its keep when you want Google Ads running on emergency searches, a chat box answering “do you do callouts tonight” while you are under a sink, and a review request texted after every job. Both are on the pricing page. If you do heating as well as plumbing, the page on websites for heating engineers covers the service and boiler side.