Stuck on Base44, Wix, or a broken page builder?
We rebuild and migrate UK trade websites trapped on Base44, Builder.ai, Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy and old WordPress sites — onto a fast, hand-coded subscription site that actually ranks. Free rebuild, £24.99/month, live in 5 working days.
If your website is on any of these, you have a problem
Page builders solve a real problem — they get a tradesperson online quickly. But the long-term costs (slow load times, weak SEO, platform risk, and no clean exit) almost always outweigh the early convenience. Here are the platforms we rescue trade sites from most often.
Base44
Platform is winding down for many users. Sites are slow, the SEO is locked behind their hosting, and there's no clean export route. We rebuilt JCT Building's Base44 site from scratch and migrated their domain in 5 days.
Builder.ai
Builder.ai went into administration in 2025. If your site is still on their platform, you are on borrowed time and need a clean rebuild before the platform shuts down completely.
Wix
Slow on mobile, locked styling, monthly fees creeping past £20 once you add the apps you actually need. The PageSpeed scores tell their own story when you compare to a hand-coded build.
Squarespace
Beautiful templates, but the same template every business in your trade is using. Rankings struggle because the underlying code is heavy and the SEO controls are limited.
GoDaddy / 123 Reg builder
Built years ago, never touched, opening hours wrong on Google, slow as treacle on a phone. The hosting renews every year for more than you remember paying.
Old WordPress site
Built by a relative or a one-off freelancer in 2018, hasn't been updated since, and now the plugins are out of date and the site goes down every other month. Time to start fresh.
How a rescue migration works
Five days from "I'm stuck" to "We're live on the new site." Here is exactly what happens at each stage.
Free 15-minute call
We look at your current site together, identify what is working and what is broken, and confirm the migration is viable. No commitment, no quote pressure.
Brief and content gather
We pull your existing content across, ask a handful of questions about your trade, your service area, and the customers you actually want, and lock down the brief.
Build (3 to 5 days)
Charlie hand-codes the new site from scratch. Mobile-first, fast, with proper local SEO and schema markup baked in. You see progress in real time, not in a black box.
Domain switch
Once you have approved the rebuild, we update your DNS to point at the new site. The cutover is usually invisible to customers — no downtime, no broken links.
Ongoing management
From there, you pay a flat monthly fee. We handle hosting, SSL, content updates, and (on the SEO plan) ongoing local search optimisation. No surprises.
Why a rebuild — not just another builder
The instinct when a builder fails or frustrates you is to find another builder. But every page-builder platform shares the same fundamental compromises: a heavy generic codebase, slow mobile load times, limited SEO control, and a business model where they own the platform you're paying to use.
A hand-coded site solves the underlying problem. It loads faster because the code is written specifically for your business, not generated by a one-size-fits-all engine. It ranks better because the on-page SEO, schema markup, and structured data are built in correctly from the first commit. And it doesn't depend on a third-party platform staying solvent — your site lives on Vercel and your domain stays under your control.
The cost objection that usually keeps trades on builders ("I can't afford a £3,000 web design quote") doesn't apply with us — the rebuild is free, and the monthly fee from £24.99 is competitive with most builder subscriptions once you add the SEO, hosting, and SSL extras builders charge for separately.
We have done this rescue migration for tradespeople caught out by Base44 and Builder.ai already, and we are seeing increasing demand as more cheap-builder platforms either close down or get bought out and rebranded. If your site is on a platform you're worried about, the right move is to start the rebuild now while there is no urgency, not when the lights go out.
Ready to get off the page builder?
Email us with the URL of your existing site and we'll send back a quick assessment within 24 hours: what we'd rebuild, how long it would take, and what the migration looks like. No quote pressure, no obligation.
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