Case study — website rebuild

A website rebuild for DC Hammer & Nail

DC Hammer & Nail remodels kitchens and bathrooms across Washington, DC and the metro area. Their work has 26 years of craftsmanship behind it. Their website didn't show any of that — it was a template that stamped the same title, the same content, and the same description across 16 pages. We rebuilt it from scratch: nine pages, each written for what it actually is. Site health went from 80% to 95%.

ClientDC Hammer & Nail
IndustryHome remodeling — kitchens & bathrooms
LocationWashington, DC & the metro area
The workFull website rebuild (design, copy structure, SEO foundations)
Live sitehammernaildc.com ↗ (opens in a new tab)
The new DC Hammer & Nail homepage — 'A home that feels more like you'
Before the rebuild

Where they started

The old DC Hammer & Nail website — template design, before the rebuild

The old site had seven pages and one template problem: the same title tag, page content, and meta description repeated across 16 pages, so search engines couldn’t tell the pages apart. A Semrush audit scored it 80% for site health, with 50 errors and zero healthy pages out of 19 crawled. Three pages were broken outright. The hosting was unreliable enough that pages timed out while loading. And the two services the company is known for — kitchen remodeling and bathroom remodeling — had no pages of their own, just photo galleries.

The website rebuild

What we did

Rebuilt the site as nine pages with clean addresses (no more .html URLs)

Gave kitchen remodeling and bathroom remodeling their own pages — the services customers actually search for

Merged the two separate galleries into one "Our work" page

Wrote a unique title, description, and page copy for every page — nothing stamped, nothing duplicated

Redirected every old .html address to its new page, so existing links and bookmarks still work

Rebuilt the contact page around one job: getting an estimate request

Before → after

The numbers

Site health (Semrush)

80% → 95%

the top-10% benchmark is 92%

Healthy pages

0 → 10

Pages with issues

16 → 4

Broken pages

3 → 0

Semrush Site Audit, before (Oct 15, 2026) and after (Oct 19, 2026).

Before

Semrush site audit before the rebuild: site health 80%, zero healthy pages
Before / Oct 15, 2026

After

Semrush site audit after the rebuild: site health 95%, ten healthy pages and zero broken pages
After / Oct 19, 2026

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