Web Design · Scaffolders
Scaffolding websites that fork domestic and commercial at the front door
Two people arrive at a scaffolding website with nothing in common: a homeowner who wants to know what a week over a bay window costs, and a contracts manager checking whether you can design, insure and inspect a five-storey frontage. One page trying to reassure both reassures neither.
In short
Web Design for scaffolders in the UK needs a different build from an off-the-shelf website, and this is how PipelineOS structures it. The homepage is a fork rather than a funnel. Two clearly labelled routes — domestic hire and commercial contracts — each leading into its own section with its own tone, its own proof and its own enquiry form. The section that carries the most weight is Domestic hire page with figures: it is the only question this visitor has. The most common way this goes wrong: one homepage addressing both audiences, so the contracts manager reads about protecting the driveway and the homeowner reads about TG20 compliance.
How we build it
The homepage is a fork rather than a funnel. Two clearly labelled routes — domestic hire and commercial contracts — each leading into its own section with its own tone, its own proof and its own enquiry form. The domestic route exists to answer the price question, because for that visitor it is the only question. Explain how hire periods work: what the first period covers, what a weekly extension costs, and what happens when the roofer overruns. Give an indicative figure for the common jobs and name what changes it — height, ground conditions, bridging over a conservatory, pavement, a temporary roof.
The commercial route is a different document written for a different reader. TG20 compliance and where bespoke design is required, who produces the drawings, the inspection regime and how records are issued, CISRS card levels held by the squad, employers’ and public liability levels as figures, and the contract sizes and sectors you already work in. That reader is not price-shopping. They are deciding whether you will be the reason a site fails an inspection, and they want a named contact rather than a form.
Neither route converts on a call alone, because scaffolding cannot be priced blind. So the enquiry form is designed around what a quote genuinely needs: address or postcode, number of storeys, what the work above is, how long it is wanted for, and photographs of each elevation taken from the ground. Asking for a picture costs you a handful of enquiries and turns most of the rest into an accurate quote without a site visit. A pavement licence page — who applies, which council, how long it takes — earns its place because people search it and nobody answers it.
The pages that do the work
The pages that carry the work, and what each one has to do before it earns the enquiry.
| Page or section | What goes on it | Why it converts |
|---|---|---|
| Domestic hire page with figures | How the hire period works, what a standard rear-elevation or chimney scaffold costs, extension charges, and the list of things that push a job up | It is the only question this visitor has. Answering it wins the ones who would otherwise ring four firms simply to establish a number. |
| Commercial capability section | TG20 and bespoke design, inspection and handover records, CISRS card levels, insurance figures, sectors and contract sizes worked in, and a named contact | A contracts manager is screening for risk, not shopping. Evidence and a person to ring is what moves you onto the list. |
| The elevation-photo enquiry form | Postcode, storeys, the work being carried out, dates wanted, access notes, and an upload for a photograph of each elevation | It converts slightly fewer people into far better enquiries, and it removes a wasted drive from most of them. |
| Pavement licence and road closure page | Who applies for the licence, which authority, typical lead times, what a licensed scaffold costs on top and who is responsible | Low volume, serious intent, and almost nobody publishes it. It also reads as competence to the commercial visitor who wanders into it. |
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Ten to sixteen pages is normal once both routes are built properly, which puts the build around £1,400–£2,800. The cost drivers are the two-audience navigation, which has to work without either visitor feeling they are in the wrong place, and the upload handling on the enquiry form — images from a modern phone are large, and they need compressing, storing and attaching to the enquiry that arrives in your inbox.
Judge it against the work it is meant to attract. A domestic hire is commonly worth £600–£1,200 and a commercial contract £4,000–£15,000 over a longer period, so the site clears its cost inside a handful of jobs. The stronger argument is the time it removes. A scaffolder who quotes from photographs instead of driving to every enquiry recovers a morning a week, and a site that publishes hire-period pricing stops the conversations that were only ever going to end in somebody deciding they would borrow a ladder.
Four ways this goes wrong
- One homepage addressing both audiences, so the contracts manager reads about protecting the driveway and the homeowner reads about TG20 compliance.
- No price guidance anywhere on the site, which guarantees an inbox full of people who wanted a number and were never going to book.
- A contact form asking only for a name, an email and a message, which means every single quote requires a visit before it can be written.
- A gallery of birdcages and towers with no scale, no context and no insurance figures anywhere, which tells a commercial buyer nothing they needed to know.
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Questions
Should we publish scaffolding prices online?
A range and an explanation of the hire period, yes. Most scaffolders resist it because every job differs, but the visitor is not looking for a fixed quote — they want to know whether this is a two hundred pound thing or an eight hundred pound thing. Give the common cases, list the variables, and state your minimum charge. It filters the enquiries you were losing money answering.
Why ask for photographs in the enquiry form?
Because a scaffold cannot be priced without seeing the elevation, the ground and the access, and a photograph gives you all three. A form with an upload field converts a little lower and produces enquiries you can quote the same evening. It also flags the awkward jobs — conservatories, narrow alleys, sloping gardens — before you have committed a morning to them.
Do we need separate pages for commercial work?
Yes, and ideally a separate section rather than one page. The commercial buyer wants inspection records, design capability, card levels and insurance figures, and none of that belongs on a page aimed at a homeowner having a roof done. Kept apart, both read confidently. Mixed together, the domestic copy makes you look small and the commercial copy makes you look expensive.
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