Founding offer: No setup fee for the first 5 clients

Stop renting your leads.

We design, build and run websites that bring in jobs for home-service trades in Greater Manchester: plumbers, electricians, heating engineers, roofers and the rest. Found on Google and Maps, from £149/month, no contract, and yours at month 12.

Every month on a lead platform is rent.Every month here is equity.

Pay a platform and you are renting access to a customer who is being sold to five other trades at the same time. Stop paying and it all stops with you.

The trades taking over your patchare not better on the tools.

They own the thing that turns up when someone searches. That is the whole difference, and it is the one part of the job you can buy outright.

You don’t want a website. You want the phone to ring.

Nobody got into the trade to fiddle with a website, so you don’t. You give us fifteen minutes at the start and one message a month after that. We do the rest, and we send you the numbers.

15 Minutes

Of your time to get started. Services, areas, a few job photos. No design meetings.

1 Message a month

One WhatsApp with a couple of photos. Miss it and nothing stops: we post from a bank built for your trade.

48 Hours to preview

Your homepage, live on a link, with your real words in it. Measured from your Monday kick-off, and guaranteed inside 7 days or you don’t pay for it.

12 Months to yours

Stay twelve months and the website becomes yours, free. Same site, same price, same service.

The only thing we ever ask you for is a photo. Everything else, the writing, the Google profile, the reviews, the reporting, is ours to run.

Do the maths on your “leads”.

What a bought lead really costs once you count the ones that never turn into a job, and what you are left holding the day you stop paying.

Some of them charge you per lead. Some charge you every month whether the work comes or not. Either way you are paying for the same customer that three, ten or twenty other trades are also paying for.

And word of mouth? Brilliant, until the quiet month when nobody is talking.

Meanwhile 164,500 people a month type “plumber near me” or “electrician near me” into Google in this country. Every one of those is a customer choosing between whoever turns up.

What a won job really costs
£95–£375
Before you’d lifted a tool. And it all stops the day you stop paying.

Now do it with your own number.

Both lines are what you will have spent by that month. Neither of them is a forecast of work won.

£120

Drawn at £120 a month. With JavaScript on, this is a slider you can set to your own figure.

Own the Patch, Presence. Month 12: the website vests to you, free. Renting a platform. …and the day you stop, it all stops.
12 months renting
£1,440
12 months on Presence
£1,788
What you hold at month 12
Renting: nothing. Here: the website, your domain, your profile, your reviews.

Cost per won job: Local Ladder’s published analysis of member-reported lead-platform quotes, July 2026. Search volumes: Ubersuggest, United Kingdom, August 2026. Figures are third-party or self-reported, vary by trade and postcode, and are not a projection of your results.

A pipeline you own. Not a listing you rent.

A website built to make the phone ring

Loads in under a second, your number front and centre, a quote form for the planners and click-to-call for the emergencies.

Found where people actually look

Google, Google Maps, and now AI tools like ChatGPT, which are already answering “best electrician near me”. We build what they look for, and we check quarterly that you are appearing.

Reviews working for you

Your best jobs, your ratings, your areas, in front of every visitor deciding who to let into their home.

Proof, every month

One email: how many people visited, how many enquired, how many tapped to call. You will know exactly what the site is doing for you. Try getting that from a lead platform.

Found where people actually look

Local results Illustration

  1. Another local business 4.9 128 reviews Open now
  2. Another local business 4.7 64 reviews Open now
  3. Your business Your reviews Open now
One of the three names in the map results your town actually rings. That is the spot we work towards, and we check it monthly and show you.

Proof, every month

Hollinbeck Electrical

Stockport · August

Example

Visits
214
Enquiries
9
Calls
17
Top search
emergency electrician stockport

Visits, last 30 days 214

What they searched
emergency electrician stockport 38
electrician near me 31
fuse box replacement stockport 22
eicr certificate stockport 14
Example report.

See the work

Two real builds, not screenshots.

The site every plan starts from, built twice: once for an emergency trade and once for a planned one, because the two are not the same site. Open either on your phone and go through it. Same speed, same structure, same everything; only the businesses are invented.

  • Emergency electrician · Stockport

    Aldenwick Electrical

    Emergency work. The number is the first thing on the screen and dials in one tap; the form is for the people with a day to spare.

    Open Aldenwick

  • Bathroom and kitchen fitter · Macclesfield

    Emberwell Bathrooms

    Planned work. The gallery and the process do the selling, prices are stated from, and the quote form is the main action.

    Open Emberwell

  • Open it on your phone

    The way your customers will. Tap the number, send the form, see how fast it comes back.

  • Check it against your own site

    Run both through Google PageSpeed. That gap is the one your customers feel when a page takes four seconds to show them a phone number.

  • They are demos, and they say so

    Neither business is real and each site is marked as a demo on every page, so nobody rings a number that goes nowhere. Yours would carry your work, your areas and your reviews.

Both open in a new tab. Demo businesses, not clients.

Three steps. One week.

Tell us about the business

Fifteen minutes: your services, your areas, your best job photos. No design meetings, that is our job.

We build it

Builds start on Mondays. Your build begins the first Monday after your details are in and your first payment has cleared: get both done by 5pm Thursday and it is that Monday. From kick-off the preview link is with you inside 48 hours, guaranteed within 7 days or you don’t pay for it.

The phone does the rest

Every enquiry lands in your inbox the second it is sent, and the monthly report shows the count in black and white.

See what the first 90 days look like

One setup. Three plans. No contract.

Every plan builds the same thing: a pipeline of jobs you own, not rent. Each rung just compounds it harder. And cancelling never torches your business, because your domain, your Google profile, your reviews and your rankings stay yours.

Start on Presence. Move up when it is working. No contract either way.

Presence Start here
Get found.
£149 /month

The rung everything above is built on. When someone looks you up, whether it is the referral checking you out or the quote-chaser comparing three names at 9pm, they find a business worth calling and they can call it in one tap.

  • Hand-built site: preview in 48 hours, most launch on day 7
  • Domain, hosting, security: all handled
  • Listed accurately across the directories Google cross-checks
  • Click-to-call and a spam-filtered enquiry form
  • 2 edit requests a month by WhatsApp — one message, up to five changes each
  • Monthly proof: visits, enquiries and calls, one page
  • Your reviews pulled onto the site at launch, refreshed quarterly
Growth Most popular
Get chosen.
£349 /month

When locals compare trades on Google and on Maps, you are the one they pick. Strangers start ringing, not just referrals, and every enquiry is counted so you can see it working.

  • Everything in Presence
  • Area pages built to win each town you serve
  • Your Google profile managed month to month, not set up once and left
  • Two Google posts a month, photos and hours kept current, questions answered
  • Review requests built into how you close a job, so they keep arriving
  • Every enquiry logged, instant alerts to your phone
  • A deeper search report each quarter, on top of the monthly numbers
  • 4 edit requests a month
Engine
Run the patch.
£650 /month

Yours becomes the name your area finds first: on Google, on Maps, and in the AI answers your customers are starting to ask. The machine compounds monthly while you are on the tools.

  • Everything in Growth
  • Automatic review requests after every job, responses handled for you
  • Call tracking on your own local number: every call logged and reported, never recorded
  • A new ranking page every month: area, service or post — fair use, guide of one a month
  • 4 Google posts a month
  • Quarterly AI visibility check with screenshots: what ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI actually say about your trade in your town
  • A twenty-minute strategy call each quarter, with the report in front of you
  • Priority changes, next-working-day target

What managed month to month means

The same profile, looked after two different ways.

Everything below is a setting somebody either keeps current or does not. That is the whole of the difference, and it is why the middle rung exists.

Set up once and left

Hollinbeck Electrical Stockport

Category
Electrician, and nothing after it
Services
None listed
Hours
Never confirmed since setup
Photos
3, all from launch day
Posts
None
Questions
1 asked, still unanswered

Managed month to month

Hollinbeck Electrical Stockport

Category
Electrician, plus four secondary
Services
11 listed, priced where it helps
Hours
Open now, closes 18:00. Bank holidays set
Photos
22, six of them added this month
Posts
Posted four days ago
Questions
Answered inside a day

Founding offer 5 left

Setup: free for the first 5 £750

The whole build: design, all the words written for you, domain, a clean wordmark logo, your Google profile built out properly with categories, services, areas and photos, launch and testing — and your business details verified and made consistent everywhere Google cross-checks them. Normally £750 one-off. Waived in full for the first five founding clients, after which it returns to £750, or £250 across your first three months.

Pay the year, get two months free

Any plan, 12 months for the price of 10: £1,490 / £3,490 / £6,500, one payment.

  • Price locked while you stay
  • Rolling monthly by Direct Debit or card
  • Cancel anytime and keep your domain, Google profile, reviews and rankings
  • All prices exclude VAT. We are not currently VAT registered, so no VAT is charged.

Don’t take the speed on trust. Measure it.

Run this page through Google’s own PageSpeed test, then run your current site through it. Same tool, same scale, two numbers. That gap is what a customer feels while a page decides whether to show them your phone number, and it is the first thing we fix.

Every build has to clear Google’s bar on a mid-range phone before it goes live. It is a condition of the build, not a target we hope to hit.

Run the test on this page

Free visibility check

Not sure which rung? See where you stand first, free.

No pitch, no pressure, nothing that commits you. You get it back in plain English, usually within two working days.

What I look at

  • Map results.Where you come up for your trade in your town, and the three above you.
  • Google profile.Categories, services, areas, hours, photos, and whether your details match everywhere.
  • Reviews.How yours compare to the three above you: count, rating, how recent.
  • Your site on a phone.Load speed, a number you can tap without scrolling, a form that arrives.

After 12 months, the website is yours. Free.

A subscription site you could never own would just be rent with better manners. So ours is not: stay twelve months and the website, code, design, the lot, becomes yours. It is in the terms, not the small print.

Day one

Yours from the start

Your domain is registered in your name. Your Google Business Profile, your reviews, your leads and customer details are yours, full stop, whatever happens.

Month 12

Ownership vests, free

After twelve months of continuous subscription, the website itself becomes yours, with a licence to the template system behind it. Nothing changes unless you want it to: same site, same price, same service.

Any time

Or buy it out early

In a hurry? Buy the site outright any time before month 12 for a flat £1,500. And if you ever leave, a handover pack means any developer can pick it up in an afternoon.

“You stay because it’s working, not because you’re stuck.”
Try asking a lead platform what you get to keep when you stop paying.

About Own the Patch

One person, accountable.

Own the Patch is Eric Phung. Not an agency floor, not a reseller, not a queue. When you send a change it reaches the person who built the site, and it gets done.

The work is deliberately narrow: essential UK trades, a hand-built site, a Google profile worked properly, and a number every month that tells you whether it is working. And at month 12 the site is yours, because a subscription you can never own is just rent with better manners.

Eric Phung, who builds and runs every Own the Patch site
Eric Phung Founder, Own the Patch
Based
Sale, Manchester
Built for
Essential trades
First preview
Inside 7 days
You hear back
One working day

First preview within 7 days of kick-off, or you don’t pay for it.

Builds start on Mondays. From kick-off, 48 hours is the norm and 7 days is the promise: miss it and the setup fee is voided. We guarantee the part that is entirely in our hands, and never a number of leads, because nobody honest can.

Read the full guarantee

Straight answers

The questions you were going to ask anyway.

No. Rolling monthly by Direct Debit, cancel anytime, effective at the end of your current billing period. And cancelling does not torch your business: your domain, your Google Business Profile, your reviews and your rankings are yours and stay yours.

Your content, photos, domain, Google profile and reviews are yours, full stop, from day one. The website itself vests to you at month 12: after twelve months it is yours, free, and nothing changes unless you want it to. Before that, buy it out any time for a flat £1,500. It is in the terms, not the small print.

Try asking a lead platform what you get to keep when you stop paying.

Straight answer: nobody can guarantee what an AI tool says, and anyone promising that is selling you something. What we do is build exactly what those tools look for, which is consistent business details, real reviews, and clear answers about your services and areas. Then we check quarterly and show you the screenshots. You will see it moving rather than take our word for it.

Reply to one WhatsApp with a couple of job photos. That is genuinely it. Miss a month? We post from a content bank built for your trade, so nothing stops.

The whole build: design, all the words written for you, domain, a clean wordmark logo, your Google profile built out properly, launch and testing. Spread it over three months if that is easier. Refundable in full until we start building, and after that the 7-day guarantee covers it: a late first preview voids the fee.

Builds start on Mondays. Yours begins the first Monday after your first payment has cleared and your details are in with nothing missing. Get both done by 5pm on the Thursday and you have that Monday; after that it rolls to the following one. That Monday is your kick-off.

From kick-off the preview link is usually with you inside 48 hours, and 7 days is the deadline. That deadline does not move because you are not paying a setup fee: the founding five get held to the same clock as everyone else. Miss it and the setup fee is voided, credited back in full if you have already paid; where there is no setup fee to void, your first month is free instead. It is in writing. From your approval we are live within two working days, and most sites launch in that first week.

Start today

Own the patch.

Fifteen minutes of your details, then we build. Kick-off is the first Monday after your details and your first payment are in, and your first preview lands within 7 days of it.

  1. 01 Send your details Fifteen minutes and one form: your services, your areas, a few of your best photos.
  2. 02 We build it Kick-off is the Monday after your details and payment land, by 5pm Thursday. Preview inside 7 days, usually 48 hours.
  3. 03 The phone rings Live within two working days of your approval, and every enquiry counted from day one.
From£149/month