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Your DIY coach · Free

Do it yourself.
Do it right.

HomeHog turns "there's water in my basement" into a step-by-step plan — exact materials, honest safety, permits included — from a coach that knows your whole house.

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Coachknows your house
Water keeps showing up along the basement wall after heavy rain. Where do I start?
SAFETY CHECK · CAUTION Nine times out of ten this is grading or gutters before it's a foundation problem — cheaper fixes first. Here's the order I'd work:
  1. Walk the outside during rain — watch where water lands
  2. Check downspout discharge (needs 6 ft from the wall)
  3. Measure the grade: target 6 in of fall over 10 ft
If you see a horizontal crack in that wall, stop — that one gets an engineer's eyes, not a weekend fix.
Grade is dead flat. Build me the regrade plan?
What you get

A plan, not a pep talk

Every project gets the treatment a good contractor would give it — scoped, sequenced, and quantified before anyone swings a hammer.

Step-by-step playbooks

Ordered steps that teach the why in one breath, each with a target you can put a tape measure on.

TARGET: slope ~2% away from the house

Exact materials, computed

Concrete yards, stud counts, drywall sheets — from a deterministic calculator. The AI never guesses a quantity.

12×16 slab @ 4" → 2.5 yd³ (+5% waste)

Safety that means it

Breaker off and tested dead before anything else. Gas, service panels, and load-bearing walls get one answer: call a pro.

PERMIT LIKELY · inspector = free second opinion

Knows your whole house

Projects, photos, notes — even your breaker panel. Snap it once, then ask "which breaker is the kitchen?" forever.

SLOT 7 → kitchen counters · 20A
How it works

Three steps to done-right

Tell the Coach

"Water in the basement." "Wire the shed." Add photos of the problem — it reads them.

Get the playbook

Scoped steps, computed materials, safety rules, and a straight answer about permits.

Work the list

Check off progress, snap photos as you go, ask questions the moment it gets weird.

The hard lines

Some jobs get one answer: call a pro.

Most apps tell you what you want to hear. HomeHog is the friend who's done this for twenty years — it will happily teach you to wire a switch, and it will flatly refuse to walk you into a gas line. That's the point.

  • Gas piping & gas appliances
  • Inside the panel, ahead of the main
  • Load-bearing walls without an engineer
  • Digging before you call 811
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Free to use. No password, no credit card — just tell it what you're building.

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