How Much Does a Joiner's Website Cost in the UK? (2026 Price Guide)

Ask three joiners how much they paid for their website and you will get three wildly different answers: one built it free on Facebook, one paid a local lad £400 cash, and one is still paying an agency £79 a month two years later. None of them can tell you what a website should cost. This guide fixes that with real 2026 numbers, explains what actually drives the price, and shows why a fixed quote beats an hourly one every time.

How much does a joiner's website cost in the UK in 2026?

Here is how the main options compare for a typical joinery website — a home page, your services (fitted wardrobes, kitchens, doors, decking, general carpentry), a gallery of past jobs, and a way to get in touch.

Those DIY figures assume you pay monthly. Squarespace sits around £16–£30 a month in the UK and Wix around £11–£33 a month, before you add a domain (£10–£15 a year). Run the maths and you are paying £150–£360 every year, forever — and you are still the one uploading photos and wrestling with templates on a Sunday night when you should be quoting the next job.

The monthly-agency option is the one to watch. A "free website" that costs £79 a month is £948 a year, or £2,844 over three years — and the day you stop paying, the site vanishes. You never owned it.

What actually drives the price of a joiner's website?

Once you know what moves the number, most quotes stop being mysterious.

Number of pages. A five-page site is cheaper than fifteen. For most joiners, five to seven pages is plenty: home, services, gallery, about, contact, and maybe an area-covered page.

Who writes the words. Copywriting is often quoted separately. Hand over your own text and you save money; ask the agency to write it and expect a few hundred pounds on top.

The photo gallery. This is where joinery sites live or die. Your work sells you — sharp photos of a fitted kitchen or a hand-built staircase do more than any sales copy. Some builders charge to set up a proper gallery; a good one includes it.

Custom design vs template. A tidy template in your colours is fast and cheap. A design drawn from scratch costs far more and rarely earns its keep for a trade business.

Revisions. The quiet budget-killer. Many quotes include "two rounds of changes." Round three onward is billed by the hour, and that is how a £1,500 job quietly becomes £2,500.

If you are a joiner who needs to look professional, show your work and get the phone ringing, you do not need bespoke design or a content management course. You need a clean, fast site with your services, a gallery and a big "call me" button. That is exactly the thinking behind Brightray's websites for tradesmen.

The ongoing costs nobody mentions in the quote

The build price is only half the story. Every website has running costs, and they are easy to miss when you are comparing prices on the phone.

• Domain name: £10–£15 a year for a .co.uk.
• Hosting: £5–£30 a month (£60–£360 a year) if it is not bundled.
• SSL certificate: usually free now, though a few hosts still charge.
• Business email: around £5 per user per month for name@yourjoinery.co.uk.
• Maintenance/care plans: agencies often sell these at £30–£100+ a month.
• Content changes: if you cannot edit the site yourself, every new gallery photo is a bill.

With a DIY builder these are rolled into the monthly fee, which is why the yearly number looks small until you realise it never stops. With a freelancer or agency, ask exactly what the running costs are before you sign. A cheap build with an expensive care plan can cost more over three years than a dearer build that leaves you self-sufficient.

Why a fixed price beats an hourly quote

Almost every website quote in the UK is really an estimate. Freelancers and agencies guess how many hours a job will take, then bill against it. If the work runs over — and it usually does, once revisions and "can we just add the decking page" requests pile up — the number climbs. You do not control that. They do.

You already know this from your own trade. A customer who wants a "rough idea" and a customer who wants a fixed price for a fitted wardrobe are two different conversations. The fixed price protects both of you. Websites are no different.

Fixed price flips the risk. You agree £500, and £500 is what you pay, whatever happens during the build. No hourly clock, no surprise invoice, no awkward scope conversation. For a sole trader or small joinery firm watching cash flow, that certainty is worth as much as the low headline number.

Brightray's websites from £500 are built this way on purpose: one fixed fee, a done-for-you site, live in about a week. You are not learning a website builder in your evenings, and you are not renting your own website off an agency forever. You brief it, Brightray builds it, and it goes live — the whole idea behind the 7-day website.

WhatsApp on every job — built in as standard

Here is the bit most joiners actually care about. When someone finds your site at 8pm, they do not want to fill in a contact form and wait. They want to fire over a photo of the wonky door or the space where the shelving should go and ask "can you do this?"

Every Brightray site has a WhatsApp for Business click-to-chat button built in as standard. One tap and the enquiry lands on your phone with a photo attached — the way trade enquiries actually happen in 2026. No extra plugin, no extra fee.

Which option is right for you?

Choose a DIY builder if you have spare evenings, enjoy fiddling with design, and genuinely do not mind that the running cost never ends. Cheapest way to start, most expensive way to stay.

Choose a freelancer if you want something more custom and you have found someone reliable with a portfolio you trust. Get the revision policy and the final total in writing.

Choose an agency if you need bespoke branding and have the budget. For most joiners this is overkill.

Choose fixed-price done-for-you if you want a professional site — gallery, services, WhatsApp button, the lot — without the time sink, the hourly billing or the monthly rental trap. This is the sane middle ground for most joiners, and it is exactly what the websites for joiners line is built for. Brightray works with trades across Scotland and the wider UK.

So what should you budget?

For a straightforward UK joinery website in 2026, budget £150–£360 a year if you build it yourself, £800–£3,000 for a freelancer, or £2,500–£5,000+ for an agency — and watch out for monthly plans that quietly cost more over three years than any of them. If you would rather skip the hourly billing and the guesswork, a fixed £500 done-for-you build lands better than all of them: you own it outright, there is no surprise invoice, and it is live in about a week.