Extensions
The sequence of the job, week by week, in your own words.
IrelandCounty Galway
Builder website design in Galway
New estates going up faster than anywhere in the country, a separate city and county council since the eighties, and Atlantic weather that decides what an extension has to be built out of on the west side.
Three weeks from go ahead to live, and about ninety minutes of your time: one call, twelve photographs, one read through.
Hand built, not templatedLive in three weeksYou own the domain, files and logins
3 weeks
from go ahead to live
90 minutes
of your time, start to finish
Under 2 sec
page load on 4G
The awkward bits
The things you say before you say yes
It is a small city, everybody knows a builder
The people who grew up here do. Knocknacarra, Roscam, Doughiska and Oranmore have filled with households who have nobody to ask, and a good share of the work is for owners living elsewhere entirely. All of them find a builder the same way, which is by searching.
The weather changes what I can build and customers argue about it
So put the argument on the page before it starts. What wind-driven rain does to a west-facing wall, what you build instead and what it costs. A homeowner who reads that arrives having already accepted it, which is the whole point of a website.
City or county — which planning office do I name?
Both, because they are genuinely different. Galway City Council and Galway County Council have been separate authorities since the city was split out, so a job in Salthill and a job in Athenry go through different offices. One line, and it does more than any adjective.
The season decides everything here
Then the page has to carry both halves of the year. Summer is changeovers, short lets and outdoor work; winter is the jobs people have been putting off. Most trade sites here are written for one season and go quiet in the other, which is a page problem rather than a market one.
What you get
The pages your site needs
A page per job, never a page per suburb.
Loft conversions
A different buyer from an extension, so a different page.
Renovations
Dates and sequence matter more than finished photographs.
Groundwork and foundations
The part nobody photographs and everybody worries about.
Structural alterations
Where building control and a calculation enter the conversation.
Garden rooms and garages
The faster jobs that keep a team busy between the big ones.
The one question your form must ask
Do you have drawings yet?
It sorts a customer who is ready to book from one who is eighteen months out, and both are worth having.
One thing about Galway worth checking
Checkable, like the rest of this page. Here is where we read it.
Galway ceased to be part of County Galway in 1986 and was renamed Galway City in 2001. Galway City Council and Galway County Council are separate authorities, so a job in Salthill and a job in Athenry go through different planning offices.
Read from Galway, Wikipedia, 2026-08-18
Beeforge is a small studio working across the UK and Ireland. There is no office in Galway and we are not going to pretend otherwise — nothing here says we have worked in the city, only that we build for builders who do.
Straight answers
Questions we get asked most
How much does a website cost for a builder?
Ours come in under the price of a coffee a day and you get the number on the first call. Across the market a template is a few hundred pounds and a written site is several thousand. Whoever you use, ask for the five year total including hosting and changes.
Why is my building company not showing on Google Maps?
Almost always no Google Business Profile, one that was never verified by post or video, a business name and address that does not match your site, or no reviews at all. Fix them in that order. All four are free and all four beat a redesign.
Next step
Tell us your trade and the towns you cover
A straight yes, no, or not yet, within one working day.
Nothing to sign
No twelve month tie in, no exit fee and no notice period. Stop whenever you like and the site stays yours.
It is yours, in writing
Before you pay a penny we tell you who the domain is registered to, where the files sit, who holds the logins, and how to move the site elsewhere.
Your side of it is small
No copy to write and no hosting to work out. Answer questions for about an hour and a half and send twelve decent photos.