Mainstay Handyman website template
Mainstay is for handymen, plumbers, electricians and one-van trades that get booked over the phone. The number is a tap on every page, recent jobs show what they cost, and your service area is spelled out before anyone asks.
Who Mainstay is for
- Multi-trade handymen and property maintenance one- or two-person firms
- Plumbers, electricians and carpenters who take small domestic work
- Painters and decorators quoting room by room
- Any local trade that gets booked over the phone rather than by email
- Sole traders who want to stop answering ‘do you cover my area?’
What’s included
- Pages
- 4 pages, written and laid out
- Grows with you
- 6 project entries at /work/ — add one and its index and detail page both update
- Enquiries
- A working form — messages land in your Sitelas inbox
- Fonts
- Bricolage Grotesque and Figtree · light theme
Build Mainstay by asking your AI agent
- 1Connect Sitelas to Claude, ChatGPT or another AI agent that supports MCP. How to connect
- 2Ask for it in plain words: “Build my handyman website with the Mainstay template: it's just me and one van in Austin doing small plumbing, electrical and carpentry jobs, with prices from $90, the neighborhoods I cover and a quote form that takes a photo.”
- 3Open the preview link it sends back, ask for changes, and publish when it reads right.
Then keep changing it from the same chat
- Rewrite the copy“Rewrite the ‘Services and prices’ page with my details, in a warmer voice.”
- Change the design“Keep the layout, but swap Bricolage Grotesque for another typeface and use my brand colours.”
- Add project entries“Add three project entries from these notes, each with its own page.”
- Swap the photos“Replace the photos on the ‘Recent work’ page with my own.”
Everything here can also be done by hand in the visual editor.
About the Mainstay template
Built for handymen and local trades
Most local-trade sites are brochures; this one is a phone number with a site attached. Customers who find you want to know three things: can you do the job, do you cover their area, and what will it roughly cost.
What's on the site
- Home with tap-to-call buttons, what you can do and where you work
- Services and prices
- Recent work, with each job's real price
- Get a quote, with a form that asks for postcode and urgency
What to know
Your service area is spelled out, which cuts out-of-range enquiries before they arrive. Quote requests land in your Sitelas inbox, and each one says how urgent it is, so you can decide who to call back first.
When to pick something else
Mainstay is the wrong template for these. Where there is a better one, it is linked.
- Appointment-led practitioner selling sessions
- National or multi-branch operation — this is built for one van
- Decorating crew with a gallery of finished interiors and exteriors — try Dado
- Repair company with a staffed crew, a page per trade and articles — try Spanner
- Fixer with a public rate card, an online visit request and rental unit turnovers — try Jamb
- Pipe and drain firm with several plumbers, seasonal deals and a cost calculator — try Flange
- Crew on a weekly round mowing, feeding and plowing yards — try Sward
- Guarding company with officers on site and patrol cars at night — try Postern
Free to use · No credit card required
Key Highlights
Questions about Mainstay
Can I show which areas I cover?
Yes. A named service area sits on the page, which cuts out-of-range enquiries before they arrive.
What does the quote form collect?
The job, a postcode and how urgent it is, so you can sort requests before calling back.
Who is Mainstay for?
Mainstay is for a handyman or a small multi-trade outfit, one or two people and a van, booked over the phone. The number is a tap away on every page, each service shows a from-price, recent jobs show what they cost, and your service area is a list of named neighbourhoods. The quote form asks what needs doing, a postcode, how urgent it is and an optional photo, so you can price from the picture. It has four main pages (home, services, work and contact), and each recent job gets its own page with what it cost. The sample firm is in Sheffield and prices in pounds, so change the town, currency and postcode label for your own. A plumbing company with a crew fits Flange better, an electrical contractor fits Conduit, and a home repair company with several trades fits Spanner.
What pages come with Mainstay?
4 pages, already written and laid out: Home, Services and prices, Recent work and Get a quote. Add, rename or remove pages whenever you like.
Can Claude or ChatGPT build my site from Mainstay?
Yes. Connect Sitelas to your AI agent and ask for a site that uses Mainstay. It fills in your details, sends you a preview link, and publishes when you approve. The same chat can keep running the site afterwards.
Can I change Mainstay without code?
Yes. The Bricolage Grotesque and Figtree type, all 4 pages and the project entries, every photo and every colour can be changed in the visual editor, or by asking your AI agent.
What does it cost?
Nothing to start, with no trial clock. A free site runs on a sitelas.com address; Pro is $9 a month per site ($90 a year) for your own domain, analytics and more room.
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Make Mainstay yours
All 4 pages open in the editor already written, with 6 starter project entries. Make the words and photos yours, then publish.
Free to use · No credit card required
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