Residential plumbing business

Alder & Valve Plumbing: A residential plumbing business website, built and updated with Designhouse.

A residential plumbing website with detailed service information and a clear path to requesting a visit. Close-up photography and a dark blue design frame practical information about the diagnostic fee, coverage, and what happens before a repair begins.

The brief

The starting brief.

This is the original build brief. Studio edits refined the logo, homepage image, and price formatting. Explore the updated website below.

Purpose
Help Hamilton homeowners arrange residential plumbing repairs and planned fixture installations, with clear service details, pricing and a straightforward request for a visit.
Audience
Homeowners in Hamilton, Dundas, Ancaster and Stoney Creek looking for help with a leak, a troublesome toilet, a blocked sink or a bathroom or kitchen fixture replacement.
Tone
Capable, clear and neighbourly. Explain the work in natural sentences. Reassurance comes from a useful process and specific information, without slogans, scare tactics or sales pressure.
Key facts
  • A small residential plumbing business based in Hamilton, Ontario, serving Hamilton, Dundas, Ancaster and Stoney Creek.
  • Services: leaking taps and visible pipework, toilet repairs and replacements, blocked sinks and household drains, shut-off valve replacement, and kitchen and bathroom fixture installation.
  • A diagnostic visit costs CAD $95 plus HST. This covers the visit and assessment, not repair labour or parts. If the customer accepts the repair quote, the diagnostic fee is credited against that repair.
  • Repairs and installations are quoted after assessment. The customer agrees to the price before work begins. Do not invent package prices or hourly rates.
  • Working hours are Monday to Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, and Saturday, 9 am to 1 pm. Visit requests are answered during those hours. The business confirms the appointment directly.
  • Customers can call about an active leak during working hours to discuss availability. There is no guaranteed arrival time or round-the-clock service.
  • The team explains the proposed repair, protects the work area and tidies up afterwards. For planned replacements, customers can describe the fixture they already have or the change they want.
  • The business travels to customers and has no public shop or walk-in address.

The live site

Explore the website.

The pages

From the brief to the finished pages.

Asked for
Introduce residential plumbing in Hamilton through confident, distinctive design and convincing detail photography. Help a visitor recognise their job: a leaking tap, an unreliable toilet, a slow sink or a new fixture. Explain the diagnostic visit and how its fee is credited, then the straightforward path from request to agreed quote to repair. Include the service area, working hours and a clear route to request a visit. Present the business as attentive and professional without invented history, ratings or customer stories. Avoid repeating the entire services page.

The Home page of Alder & Valve Plumbing at desktop width
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The Home page of Alder & Valve Plumbing at mobile width
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Asked for
Explain the supplied repair and installation services in useful terms, grouped around the homeowner's problem. Include appropriate photography of plumbing details and finished fixtures, without fabricated project case studies. Explain exactly what the CAD $95 plus HST diagnostic visit covers, how the credit works and when a repair quote is agreed. For planned fixture work, explain what information helps arrange the visit. Do not supply DIY repair instructions or extend the offering into gas, boiler or electrical work.

The Services page of Alder & Valve Plumbing at desktop width
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The Services page of Alder & Valve Plumbing at mobile width
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Service area

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Asked for
Make coverage clear for Hamilton, Dundas, Ancaster and Stoney Creek. Use a considered typographic or geographic composition, with locally appropriate residential imagery if useful, rather than a third-party map embed. Explain that visitors include their neighbourhood and postal code in a request so the business can confirm the visit. Include working hours and a practical explanation of scheduling, without invented travel times, office locations or same-day guarantees. Keep the page concise and useful.

The Service area page of Alder & Valve Plumbing at desktop width
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The Service area page of Alder & Valve Plumbing at mobile width
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Request a visit

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Asked for
Create a working visit-request form with name, email, phone, neighbourhood or postal code, type of job and a short description. Explain that sending it requests a visit and the business replies during working hours to confirm availability. Display the supplied phone and email, opening hours and diagnostic fee explanation. Give calls a clear place for someone dealing with an active leak during working hours. The form must not claim an appointment is booked, a plumber dispatched or a payment taken. Do not ask for file uploads or render a fake calendar. Show Hamilton, Ontario as the base without inventing a street address.

The Request a visit page of Alder & Valve Plumbing at desktop width
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The Request a visit page of Alder & Valve Plumbing at mobile width
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Updated October 2026

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