New Zealand · September 2026
Someone searching for a plumber, gasfitter or drainlayer is usually trying to solve a problem right now. Your website’s job is to look like a real, registered business fast, not to win a design award. We build it first, from what is already public about you, and then give it to you. It costs nothing to have and nothing to keep.
Nobody searches for a plumber on a quiet afternoon out of curiosity. They search on a phone, standing next to a burst pipe or a blocked drain, usually within a few minutes of the problem starting. “Emergency plumber Hamilton”, “blocked drain near me”, “gasfitter open now”: these are urgent, local, and answered mostly by the map results, not the ordinary search list underneath them.
That changes what the website is for. It is not there to be read at leisure. It is there so that when someone taps through from the map or a search result, they see a real business (a phone number, the towns you cover, and something that looks current) in the two or three seconds before they decide whether to call you or the next name on the list.
Every plumber, gasfitter and drainlayer doing sanitary plumbing, gasfitting or drainlaying work in New Zealand is required by law to be registered with the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board under the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Act 2006, and to hold a current annual practising licence. It is not optional and it is not a marketing claim. The register is public, and anyone can look you up on it. Putting your registration number on your own website, rather than leaving people to take your word for it, is one of the simplest trust signals available, and almost nobody bothers to use it.
If you are a Master Plumbers member, that is worth a line too. It comes with a 12-month guarantee for the homeowner, covering up to $20,000 if a job is left unfinished or the workmanship is faulty. Most people calling a plumber for the first time have no way to tell one business from another. Anything that removes doubt before they dial is doing real work.
Nothing. We build the page from what is already public about your business and send you the link. If you want it, we put it live and you pay us nothing for it. There is no card, no trial, and no fee that starts later. It sits at an address of ours, not your own domain name, and it carries one line at the bottom saying we built it.
It asks one thing of you. Once a year we send one message asking whether the details are still right, and two reminders over the month after it. If we cannot reach you, the page comes down — a page with your name and a wrong phone number on it is worse for you than no page at all. It also comes down when you ask, for any reason or none, within five New Zealand working days at the latest, and we will not ask you why.
The only thing you can pay for is changes made for you. You message us a new price, new hours, a holiday closure or a photo of the new van, and we make the change, within five New Zealand working days at the latest. That is NZ$299 for the year, and it includes your own domain name registered in your business name and email on it. No monthly fee, no minimum term, and it does not renew itself. No GST is added. The full terms are here.
If somebody else would suit you better — and for plenty of plumbers they would — we have listed every option we could find, with the price each company publishes on its own site: who should build your website.
We build the first version of your page from your Google Business Profile, your Facebook page, and anything else already public about your business, then send you the link. You look at it before anything happens. If you do not want it we take it down, you owe nothing, and we will not contact you about it again.
If you have not claimed your Google Business Profile yet, it matters even more for a plumber than for most trades, because someone with a burst pipe is looking at the map results, not scrolling past them. The walkthrough is here: how to claim your Google Business Profile in New Zealand.
Being straight with you: we build and host the website, not your Google Business Profile, because that needs a verified New Zealand address and we are not in New Zealand. The walkthrough above covers the whole process yourself; it takes about twenty minutes and it is free.
Yes. Showing it, rather than leaving people to take your word for it, is one of the fastest ways to look legitimate to someone who has never used you before.
Your trade, the towns you cover, a phone number that gets answered, and whether you do after-hours or emergency callouts. Photos of finished work help more than a paragraph about your company history.
Yes. The registration requirement, the licensing, and the way people search for help all sit close enough together across plumbing, gasfitting and drainlaying that the same page structure works for all three.
For a lot of trades, a Facebook page covers most of what people need day to day. What it does not do well is show up when someone searches your trade and town on Google rather than on Facebook, and it can look less permanent to someone checking you out before they call. We wrote the comparison up properly here: Facebook page or website, for a New Zealand trade business. If you are not showing up in a search at all — not even for your own business name — here is why, in the order it usually happens.
Send us your business name and the town. We will tell you honestly whether we can build one, and if we can, we email you the link to look at. There is nothing to pay at any point for the page itself.
Not a plumber? See the same approach for electricians, builders, roofers, landscapers, auto electricians, painters, plasterers, scaffolders, fencing contractors, gardeners and lawn care businesses, handyman businesses, tilers, concreters, gutter cleaning businesses, pest control businesses, locksmiths and glaziers.
Based in a main centre? See the same approach for businesses in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Hamilton, or see every trade and city.
Send us your business name and the town. We will tell you honestly whether we can build one — this is one person, so we cannot build for everyone who asks. Either way there is nothing to pay.