About Home Cost Report

Home Cost Reportanswers one question well: what does it actually cost to replace, install, or repair the expensive parts of a house? A new AC, a roof, windows, a sewer line, an electrical panel. The web is full of cost “guides” that quote a single vague national number and bury it under ads. We do the opposite.

For every project we publish a low–typical–high range, built from several public cost sources rather than one, with the sources and the date right there on the page. Then we give you an estimator that takes our range and narrows it for the things that actually move the price: the size of your home, the materials you pick, how complicated the job is. You leave with a number you can sanity-check a contractor's bid against.

We are not a contractor and we are not a marketplace. We don't bid on your job. When you're ready for real numbers, we point you toward licensed local pros, and we may earn a small fee if you request quotes through a partner. That fee never changes the cost figures you see here. See our disclosures for the details.

The honest part is the whole point. Construction prices drift with inflation and local labor rates, so we re-check our data on a regular cycle and stamp every page with when it was last verified. If a figure is getting old, the page says so. How we put the numbers together is laid out in our methodology.

Spot something wrong, or have a project you'd like us to cover? A contact channel is coming as the site launches.