What Houston customers look for
Houston, TX has hurricane-season storms, flooding, salt air and year-round humidity. For a general contractor, that means wind-rated windows and corrosion-resistant materials matter near the coast; moisture control, mold remediation and drainage are frequent concerns.
Give remodeling, additions and commercial projects their own pages that answer those questions, each with a call button and a short request form.
Immediate repairs versus renovation planning
We keep urgent problems, planned projects and recurring work apart. Customers describe what they see without having to diagnose it, and you get the address, contact and scope you need to follow up.
Local notes for Houston
- Area
- Houston, TX: Harris County; Greater Houston
- Conditions
- Hurricanes, humidity, flooding, rare hard freezes and expansive clay soil
- Permits
- Houston Permitting Center (Houston Public Works)
- Nearby
- Katy, Sugar Land, Pearland, The Woodlands and Pasadena
Most Houston jobs fall within Harris County, but customers across Greater Houston search for the same work. Customers in Katy, Sugar Land and Pearland search with their own town's name, so each place you serve gets a page of its own.
The conditions to plan around are hurricane season (June 1 to November 30), high humidity and flash flooding after downpours. Storm rebuilds and code-required wind upgrades are a big share of Houston project work, and they move on insurance timelines. Moisture control matters in Houston: ventilation, flashing and moisture-resistant materials should come up on project pages.
There is no statewide general contractor license in Texas, so customers rely on insurance, references and the city's permit process. When a contracting job in Houston needs a permit, it goes through the Houston Permitting Center (Houston Public Works). A line on each service page about licensing and who pulls the permit answers a question many Houston customers ask before calling.
Pages we would build first in Houston
- Storm rebuilds in Houston: insurance timelines, code upgrades and permits.
- Moisture-smart remodels in Houston: ventilation, flashing and materials for damp conditions.
- Floodplain projects in Houston: how floodplain rules affect elevation and finishes.
- Katy and Sugar Land service-area pages: one page each, naming the services you actually offer there.
Other general contractor website pages in the region: Austin, TX, San Antonio, TX, Dallas, TX and Fort Worth, TX.
Houston in more detail
Climate and building rules
Houston is in IECC climate zone 2A: hot, humid summers, mild winters and a hurricane season from June 1 to November 30. Hurricane Harvey's 2017 flooding, the May 2024 derecho that blew out downtown windows and Hurricane Beryl's July 2024 power outages are still reference points for homeowners.
Houston has no zoning ordinance; land use is shaped by deed restrictions and city development rules, and permits go through the Houston Permitting Center. After Harvey the city tightened its floodplain building rules, so elevation and floodplain questions come up on many projects. Flood-related rebuilds and elevation work, storm repairs, foundation repairs on clay and remodels in older neighborhoods are core project types, and floodplain rules affect many of them.
Neighborhoods and housing stock
The Heights, Montrose, Midtown, EaDo, Rice Village and the Galleria area mix older bungalows with new townhomes, while master-planned communities in Katy, Cypress and The Woodlands are mostly newer construction.
Getting around
Houston is organized by rings: the 610 Loop, Beltway 8 and the Grand Parkway, with I-10 (the Katy Freeway), I-45 and US-59/I-69 running out to the suburbs. A service area defined as 'inside the Beltway' or 'Katy to the Heights' reads better to customers than a radius in miles.
Before a Houston site goes live
- Credentials: there is no statewide general contractor license in Texas, so customers rely on insurance, references and the city's permit process.
- Permits: a short note on how jobs in Houston are permitted through the Houston Permitting Center, and how suburbs differ.
- Service areas: pages for Katy, Sugar Land, Pearland and The Woodlands, limited to the places you actually serve.
- Language: a Spanish version of the main pages if your team takes calls in Spanish.
- Photos: your own Houston jobs where you have permission, never stock images presented as your work.
What your Houston site includes
- Service pages: one for each service you offer, up to 6 with the $399 Website or 12 with Website + Marketing ($699/month).
- Town pages: one for each town you actually serve, up to 10 with the $399 Website or 50 with Website + Marketing.
- Lead capture: a call button and a short request form on every page, with each lead emailed to you and saved in your leads dashboard.
- Website tools: pick 2 for your trade (estimates, booking requests, ZIP checks or calculators) with the $399 Website, or get every tool plus AI tools with Website + Marketing.
- Local search and reviews: every site is set up so Google can read it. Website + Marketing adds local SEO and Google Business Profile upkeep every month (with your access and approval) and a review wall of real reviews you choose.
- Ready for search: every page is written and set up so Google and AI search tools can tell what you do and where.
Technical details
Page titles, descriptions, internal links, a sitemap and structured data that match your real business details.
What it costs
Website: $399, paid once. A finished site you own, with up to 6 service pages, 10 town pages and 2 website tools, live in about 7 business days after we have your details. No required monthly fee: host it with us for $9/month or take the files and host it yourself. AI tools are quoted separately. Website + Marketing: $699/month. A bigger site (12 service pages, 50 town pages, every tool for your trade, plus AI tools), hosting, call tracking, local SEO and Google Business Profile upkeep every month, and 2 blog posts and 2 edits a month. No setup fee; cancel anytime. Any ad budget is optional and billed separately. Compare the two plans.
You own the site. If you ever leave our hosting, you get a full copy of the files and steps for moving your domain. Every build follows the same path: a free preview, your details, a copy draft, your revision rounds, then we check every page, form and phone link before launch. Already have a site? We keep the pages that work and redirect the rest. We can’t promise rankings or a set number of leads — we can promise the work.
To see how the site turns Houston searches into calls and quote requests, read contractor lead generation in Houston.
Questions from Houston general contractors
What should a general contractor website in Houston include?
Start with a page for each service you want more of in Houston, such as remodeling, additions and commercial projects, then a page for each town you serve. Put a call button and a short request form on every page.
What do you need from me to get started?
Your logo, the phone and email customers should use, the services you offer, the towns you cover around Houston, any photos you have the right to use, and the inbox where leads should go.
Which license and permit details should a Houston general contractor site show?
Keep in mind there is no statewide general contractor license in Texas, so customers rely on insurance, references and the city's permit process. When a contracting job in Houston needs a permit, it goes through the Houston Permitting Center (Houston Public Works). We show your license number on every contracting service page.
Which Houston pages should we build first?
Start with the work you want more of, then local pages such as storm rebuilds in Houston, moisture-smart remodels in Houston and floodplain projects in Houston, plus service-area pages for Katy and Sugar Land if you work there.
Can one website cover Katy, Sugar Land and the rest of Greater Houston?
Give each town you actually serve its own page, up to 10 with the $399 Website or 50 with Website + Marketing. We leave out towns you don’t work in.