Last Updated on September 8, 2026
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Most UK small businesses pay between £3,000 and £6,000 for a professionally built website, with a five-page freelancer brochure site at £1,500 to £3,000 and hidden costs adding 30 to 50% on top, according to Whito’s May 2026 pricing data.
Source: Whito, whito.co.uk/for/painters-decorators/painters-website-cost-uk, September 2026. Free to quote with a link to this page.
A painter does not need a big website. You need a checkable one, and the price of checkable is lower than the price of impressive. Here is what the market charges in 2026 and what the money must buy.
Published 2026 prices
| Option | Published price | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Five page freelancer brochure site | £1,500 to £3,000 | Whito’s May 2026 pricing research |
| Professionally built business site | £3,000 to £6,000 | Whito’s May 2026 pricing research |
| Hidden extras (hosting, changes, plugins) | adds 30 to 50% | Whito’s May 2026 pricing research |
| Business site, budget route | about £500 to £1,500 a year including some support | Checkatrade website cost guide, read 4 Sep 2026 |
| DIY builder (Wix Core plan) | about £17 a month on annual billing | Whito’s July 2026 builder test |
On the DIY route, read our exit test first: Wix, Durable, Framer and Hostinger’s AI builder all offer no clean export of a finished site to another host, so the cheap monthly fee buys a site you can never take with you. WordPress at £130 to £160 a year after intro pricing lets you move everything.
What a painter’s site must contain
Whatever you pay, the checklist is the same, and most of it is text a builder cannot charge much for. Your company number and trading name in the footer. Insurance cover, stated. PDA, Dulux Select or TrustMark membership if held, written as text, because engines cannot read a badge JPEG. A page per job type with local photos. A day rate or from-prices where you can be honest. The areas you cover, named. In our June 2026 compilation, 78% of UK businesses now have a website. The differentiator is no longer having one, it is whether the machine reading it finds anything worth quoting.
The one-evening alternative
If £1,500 is not this year’s money, a single well-built page beats a stale five page site: one page, day rate, ten photos, proof in text, phone number. Painters win jobs from less. Whatever route you take, run the free Visibility Check before and after, and make the builder explain any check that still fails.
Common questions
How much should a painter and decorator pay for a website in 2026?
A five page freelancer site runs £1,500 to £3,000 and a professionally built site £3,000 to £6,000, per Whito’s May 2026 pricing research, with hidden costs adding 30 to 50%. A budget route at £500 to £1,500 a year exists via template builds, and a well made single page can carry a sole trader.
What must a painter’s website include?
Company number and trading name in the footer, insurance in text, any memberships such as PDA or Dulux Select written as text, a page per job type with local photos, honest from-prices and named coverage areas. These are the elements search and AI engines quote.
Are cheap website builders worth it for tradespeople?
They are cheap to start and expensive to leave. Whito’s July 2026 test found Wix, Durable, Framer and Hostinger’s AI builder offer no clean export to another host, while WordPress lets you take everything with you.
Before you spend any of this, check what the machines can read
Run the free Visibility Check before paying any builder, and again after. Seventeen checks, scored out of 100, no email needed.
The structural checks behind this research run on any website in about twenty seconds. Enter yours and read the full result on the page. Free, and we do not ask for your email.
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