About this site
When something goes wrong at home, the hard part usually isn't fixing it. It's working out who to phone.
A stain appears on your ceiling. Is that a plumber, a roofer, or the air conditioning? A raccoon is in the attic — is that the city, or someone you pay? Your basement is wet: does the plumber come first, or the restoration company, or the insurer? Get the order wrong and you pay twice, or you void a claim.
We built this after reading thousands of people describe the same experience: calling one trade, being told it's someone else's job, calling that one, being told the same thing back. One person put it exactly right —
"I've called a plumber who told me to call an appliance tech, and called an appliance tech who told me to call a plumber."
That loop is the problem this site exists to end.
What every page tries to do
- Answer in the first paragraph. If you're standing in water, you shouldn't have to scroll.
- Tell you who not to call. The trade that sounds right is often the one that will decline the job.
- Give the order. Who first, who second, and what it costs you to swap them.
- Show real prices with sources and dates — so you can tell a fair quote from a 2am shakedown before you agree to it.
What we are not
We are not a contractor, a dispatcher, or an emergency service. We don't send anyone to your house and we can't come and look at it. For anything involving fire, gas, carbon monoxide, downed power lines, or a person in danger, call 911 — that advice is on the relevant pages and it is never sponsored.
How we work
Every cost figure links to the page it came from and the date we read it, and pages where we couldn't verify a figure simply have no cost table. Mistakes get published in a public log rather than quietly edited. The full standard is in how we verify, and the mistakes so far are in corrections.
Get in touch
Wrong number, wrong price, a trade that refused the job, or a situation we haven't covered — all of it is genuinely useful to us.
Or use the contact form.