Web design for damp proofing companies
The firm that names the cause gets the survey.
Damp is searched for by people who are already worried. A survey has flagged it before completion, a lender wants something in writing, or a corner has gone black behind a wardrobe. They have also read that some firms sell a damp-proof course for what turns out to be a blocked gutter, so a damp proofing website earns the call by explaining the difference first. We design it, build it, host it and look after it.
- Per month: £49.99
- Upfront website design fee: £0
Illustration: a damp proofing companies pictogram beside an example website built for that trade.
Read at eleven at night
Six things a worried homeowner checks before they ring anybody.
Damp gets searched for after a wardrobe has been pulled away from a wall, or the morning a survey report lands. Nobody is comparing brands. They are working out which of the three firms on the screen will tell them the truth.
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"Is this rising damp, or is it something else?"
Four problems with four different fixes, set out with the signs of each, so somebody recognises their own wall before they pick up the phone. Explaining it is the sale.
- 02
"Will they sell me a damp course I don't need?"
One sentence, high on the home page: the survey comes first, and if the cause is an overflowing gutter or a raised flower bed, that is what the report will say. That sentence outperforms any badge.
- 03
"What happens at a survey, and is there a fee?"
How long you are in the house, what gets checked, whether you charge, and when the written report arrives. Stated, not hinted at.
- 04
"Can they write the report my solicitor is asking for?"
Buyers, sellers and lenders want something in writing before a completion date. The site says whether you produce it and how quickly. The most time-sensitive enquiry you take.
- 05
"What are these people actually qualified in?"
Whatever you hold sits beside the survey button: memberships, surveying qualifications, insurance. Nothing you do not hold appears anywhere. Your credentials only.
- 06
"Do they even come out to my postcode?"
The towns you cover, in the first screen, so nobody two counties away fills in a form you will have to turn down. Your patch, made obvious.
The four things a survey separates
Problems that look alike on a wall and are nothing alike underneath.
Most people arrive having been told three different things by a mortgage surveyor, a neighbour and a forum thread. Your site sets out what each type of damp is and what a survey checks for, so the doorstep conversation starts from understanding instead of fear.
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Rising damp
Ground moisture drawn up through the wall where a damp-proof course is missing, has failed or has been bridged. Tide marks, salting and blown plaster, usually to about a metre. The page explains what a damp-proof course does, and why a raised patio or a heaped border is so often part of it.
- 02
Penetrating damp
Water arriving from outside: a blocked gutter, cracked render, failed pointing, a tired flat roof, a slipped tile. It follows the weather and dries back between spells of rain. Sometimes the answer is a roofer rather than you, and the page says so.
- 03
Condensation and mould
Warm, moist air meeting cold surfaces. Black spotting in corners, on window reveals and behind furniture, worst between November and March. Ventilation, heating and extraction explained without lecturing a household about drying washing indoors.
- 04
Timber decay
Wet rot, dry rot and wood-boring beetle in joist ends, skirtings and roof timbers. What each looks like, why a moisture problem is almost always underneath it, and what treatment or replacement involves.
- 05
Below ground
Cellars and basements are waterproofing rather than damp proofing: cavity drain membrane, sump and pump, or a tanking system. A different subject, priced differently, and given its own section if it is a real part of your week.
Written to your practice and read by you before publication. The site talks about damp in general terms: it never diagnoses a property and never reads a wall from a photograph.
Diagnosis before treatment
The cause decides the job. Everything before it is guesswork.
The reason this trade has a reputation to live down is not workmanship. It is the firms that arrive with the answer already written: an injected damp-proof course and a replaster, whatever the meter says. The person in the hallway has half expected it since the moment they searched, so a website that leads with treatment confirms their fear.
This one leads with the survey instead: what you check, in what order, and the four things you are separating before anything is recommended. It says plainly that a wall soaked by an overflowing gutter does not need a chemical injection, and that a bedroom corner going black in January is usually a ventilation problem.
It also sets up the honest version of the sale: when the report does recommend work, the reader has already followed the reasoning, so the price arrives attached to a cause rather than a fear.
A survey that rules three things out is worth more than one that rules one thing in.
Proof, where the doubt is
Credentials belong beside the survey button, not in the footer.
Somebody choosing between three damp firms is hunting for a reason to trust one of them. Everything you can prove goes next to the point where they decide, on every page.
We never write in a membership, a surveying qualification, an insurance-backed guarantee or a review that you have not given us. If you hold it, we show it, worded the way you word it.
What we display if you hold it
- Property Care Association membership
- CSRT and CSSW qualified surveyors
- TrustMark registration
- An insurance-backed guarantee, with the scheme named and the term written in your words
- Public liability and professional indemnity insurance
- Approved-installer status for the systems you fit
- Reviews on Google, Checkatrade or Which? Trusted Trader
Scheme names show where they would sit. You tell us what you hold at onboarding and the site shows exactly that.
How it works
You are under a suspended floor most days. Your part takes an evening.
Choose a plan, tell us how you survey and what you take on, then read the draft. We write the damp pages and you check every line is true to your practice.
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Choose your plan
Pick Website or Website + SEO. Your first monthly payment is taken at signup.
- 2
Tell us about the business
A short onboarding in your Client Platform: services, areas, anything you want highlighted, your logo, any photos and the number you want calls to go to.
- 3
Ready to Build
We check we have what we need. If something's missing we'll say exactly what, and work with what you have where we can.
- 4
First draft
You see a working draft of your site, on desktop and phone, and tell us what to change.
- 5
Approve and launch
Reasonable in-scope revisions, then you approve it. Nothing goes live until you say so.
We aim to have your first website draft ready within 5 working days once PrimeStart has everything needed and confirms your project is Ready to Build. Payment alone doesn’t start the clock; missing details, revisions or domain delays can extend it.
You review the draft and request reasonable in-scope changes. If there’s a genuine problem we can’t put right within scope after reasonable attempts, we can cancel the agreement and refund Website subscription payments made, subject to any disclosed non-recoverable third-party costs.
The plan
Five pages, in the order a frightened reader needs them.
The survey is the decision they are making, so the site is built around it. Then the four causes, what treatment involves, and one short way to ask you to come and look.
Home
The survey comes first, and treatment only where the survey finds a cause for it. The four types of damp in a line each, the towns you cover, and a button that stays within reach.
- Survey first
- Towns covered
- Book a survey
Types of damp
Rising, penetrating, condensation and timber, each with the signs, the usual causes and what a survey checks for. Written to settle somebody down, not to frighten them into booking.
- Rising damp
- Penetrating
- Condensation
- Timber
Surveys
What happens on the visit, how long it takes, whether there is a fee, what the report contains, and how quickly it reaches a solicitor when a sale is waiting on it.
- What is checked
- The report
- Fee stated
Treatment
Damp-proof courses, replastering, ventilation, timber work and below-ground waterproofing, each explained honestly, with what it does not fix stated alongside.
- Damp-proof course
- Ventilation
- Waterproofing
Book a survey
A short request: the address, what they have noticed, a photograph or two and when they are usually in. It reaches your inbox with a postcode attached.
- Photo upload
- Straight to your inbox
Generally up to five pages on Website, planned around how your customers choose.
Need something extra later? No problem. PrimeStart customers can order additional services such as extra pages, branding and one-off optimisation through their client dashboard whenever they need them.
The logic of SEO
The searches that decide who gets asked to survey.
Website + SEO is optional monthly work on how easily local customers find you, aimed at three searches agreed with you. For a damp firm those usually split between the phrase everybody types, the survey phrase a house sale puts into somebody's hand, and the one problem you would rather have more of.
The kind of searches SEO works on
- damp proofing Portsmouth
- damp survey Portsmouth
- basement waterproofing Portsmouth
£349.99/month total, website included. SEO never promises a position, a number of enquiries or a revenue figure. It promises the work, every month.
Already have a website you are happy with? Ongoing SEO is only available with the managed website, as Website + SEO — PrimeStart does not run SEO on a site it does not host. If you would rather keep your current site, talk to us first and we will tell you honestly whether moving it across is worth it.
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A site that reads like a specialist
Three damp firms get compared on a phone in about four minutes. The one whose site explains the difference between the causes tends to get the call.
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Found while the report is still on the table
SEO is monthly work on the local searches, your Google Business Profile and the listings that decide who appears when somebody near you types damp survey.
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More of the work you actually want
Visibility for condensation brings ventilation work. Visibility for below-ground waterproofing brings tanking. Choosing the three searches is really choosing which sort of week arrives.
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A page built to turn worry into a visit
The explanation first, the credentials beside it, and a form that asks for a postcode, a photograph and when they are in. Attention is no use if the enquiry arrives without an address.
Your Client Platform
One place to watch it being built, and to say what to change.
Every PrimeStart customer gets their own Client Platform. It is where the project lives: the stage it has reached, the draft to read through, and the button that says you are happy for it to go live.
- Follow the build stage by stage, without emailing to ask
- Send photographs of a treated wall or a dry cellar from your phone
- Message PrimeStart directly, with the whole thread in one place
- Read the draft on a laptop and a phone, and mark up what to change
- Approve the website before anything is published
- Ask for changes later: a new town, a survey fee, a system you now fit
- See your SEO report, tracked searches and recommendations each month (Website + SEO)
There is nothing technical to learn. One login to your Client Platform, and you never have to open WordPress.
Illustration of the Client Platform for a fictional damp proofing companies business. SEO reporting is included with Website + SEO.
The price
The full cost, stated once, with the term in the open.
Both plans are the same managed website. The difference is whether PrimeStart is also working every month on how local customers find it. Clear pricing. Straightforward terms. No surprises.
A damp and timber specialist's website: the causes explained, your credentials beside every survey button, and a request form that works from a phone in a hallway.
Designers usually charge for the build before the website exists. We absorb that cost and recover it through the monthly service, which is why the plan carries a minimum term, and why there is nothing to pay up front beyond the first month.
Complete the term and the website is yours: stay with us on a rolling basis with no new minimum, or move it to hosting of your own.
Want PrimeStart working on how customers find you? Website + SEO is £349.99 a month in total, with the same website included. The same website, plus monthly work on how the people already searching for a damp survey near them actually reach it. How SEO works
Both plans are the same managed website, with your domain name and the hosting included.
£49.99per month
- Upfront website design fee
- £0
- What you pay to start
- Your first £49.99, at signup
- Minimum term
- 18 months
- Over the minimum term
- 18 × £49.99 = £899.82
- After month 18
- The website is yours
- If you stay
- £49.99 a month, rolling, no new minimum
What the plan includes
- A page for each type of dampRising, penetrating, condensation and timber, written to your practice and approved by you
- A survey request formAddress, what they have noticed, photographs and when they are in, straight to your inbox
- Your credentials where the doubt isMemberships, qualifications and insurance beside every survey button, exactly as you hold them
- Hosting, your domain name and SSLRegistered and managed by PrimeStart
- Support, small changes and your Client PlatformReasonable small changes subject to fair use, and one place to follow and approve
- A professionally designed, custom-built WordPress websiteGenerally up to five pages, planned around how damp proofing companies are chosen
- Hosting, your domain name and SSLIncluded and managed by PrimeStart
- Security, backups and updatesKept current, backed up regularly, WordPress and plugins updated by us
- Enquiry forms and basic Google foundationsForms that reach you; structure, titles and descriptions search engines read
- Support, small changes and your Client PlatformReasonable small changes subject to fair use, and one place to follow, message and approve
Questions damp and timber specialists ask us
How much does a website for a damp proofing company cost?
Can the site explain the types of damp without saying something we can't stand behind?
Can people request a survey through the site?
We charge for surveys. Can the site say so?
Can you show our memberships, qualifications and guarantee?
Is the domain name included, and who owns the website after 18 months?
How quickly will I see a first draft?
What is SEO, and do I need it to start?
Nearby trades
The trades a damp report tends to send people to next.
Each one gets its own page, written for that trade.
You find the cause. We'll look after the website.
A damp and timber specialist's website designed, built, hosted and managed by PrimeStart: the four causes explained, your credentials beside every survey button, and enquiries that arrive with an address on them.
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