Free homeowner tools — ProFix Directory

Symptom triage decision tree across plumbing, HVAC, electrical, and appliance issues.

Best for: You hear a noise, see a leak, or smell something off and want a quick read.

Voice-first triage that listens and walks you through the next safe step.

Best for: Hands are full or you would rather talk than type.

Curated gas, power, water, and 911 numbers for every Ohio metro.

Best for: Active leak, no heat, sparking outlet — find who to call right now.

Your private dashboard: this season's maintenance, your saved home details, and every tool in one place. Nothing leaves your browser.

Best for: Coming back to one personalized home base instead of re-finding each tool.

Personalized annual maintenance budget for Ohio homes by age, size, and systems.

Best for: New homeowners who do not know what to set aside each year.

Life-expectancy calculator for furnaces, AC units, water heaters, roofs, and more.

Best for: Replace-or-repair decisions on aging equipment.

Compare your repair quote with the live replacement-cost median, cited lifespan, DOE age guidance, and labeled industry rules of thumb.

Best for: A furnace, AC, water heater, or roof just broke and you want facts before deciding.

See the quietest and busiest permit month for your trade, from a matched sample of real building permits — an availability signal, not a price guarantee.

Best for: A non-urgent project you can schedule, and you want to book in the off-season.

Compare the cost to deliver heat across gas, electric, oil, propane, and a heat pump — your own fuel prices, EIA-cited energy content, ENERGY STAR efficiencies.

Best for: Deciding between heating systems, or whether a heat pump would actually cost less to run.

Compare the yearly cost to heat your hot water across gas, electric, tankless, and a heat-pump water heater — your fuel prices, EIA energy content, DOE/ENERGY STAR UEF efficiencies.

Best for: Choosing a water heater type, or seeing if a heat-pump model would pay off.

See what a higher-SEER air conditioner would cut from your cooling bill — the SEER ratio on your own cost, no fabricated load estimate, cited to DOE/ENERGY STAR.

Best for: Deciding whether a higher-efficiency AC upgrade would actually pay off.

Month-by-month maintenance tasks tuned to Northwest Ohio weather patterns.

Best for: Staying ahead of furnace tune-ups, gutter cleans, and AC startups.

60+ priced jobs across plumbing, HVAC, electrical, roofing, and concrete in NW Ohio.

Best for: Sanity-checking an estimate before you sign.

Estimate price ranges by trade, scope, and state from real building-permit data — the Real Cost Index, not crowd-sourced guesses.

Best for: Turning a cost guide into a planning number for your specific project.

Compare a written quote total with Real Cost Index ranges and review scope questions to ask before signing.

Best for: You already have a contractor quote and want a clearer follow-up checklist.

Pick a trade, project, and Ohio metro to calculate a planning range from ProFix cost data.

Best for: Turning a generic price guide into a local planning number.

Pick a trade and two U.S. metros to see each one's median home-service cost, the typical P25–P75 range, the sample size, and the % difference — every number from real building permits.

Best for: Relocating, or sanity-checking whether your metro really runs higher than another.

Pick a trade and a U.S. metro or state to see the real median permit cost, the typical P25–P75 range, the sample size, and the permit-year range — from real public building permits, not a crowd-sourced guess.

Best for: Answering 'how much does a [trade] cost in [my city]?' before you call around.

Pick a trade and a U.S. state to see the real BLS average annual + weekly wage, the covered-employment level, and the national comparison — what the trade earns as employees, not what you pay to hire one.

Best for: Researching contractor pay by state (and seeing why it's not the price you pay).

Pick a trade and a U.S. metro (or the national fixed panel) to see the real year-over-year median declared permit value, the % change across the window, and the sample size behind each year — a public-record trend, not a price index.

Best for: Seeing how a trade's costs have actually moved over recent years.

Pick a U.S. state to see its adopted NEC, IRC, and IECC editions, how many editions behind the current published baseline each is, and a link to the full per-state breakdown — computed live from public adoption status. "Behind" is which book a permit office is on, not a safety rating.

Best for: Knowing which code edition your permit office actually enforces before you hire.

Pick a U.S. state to see your contract-cancellation rights: the federal FTC 3-day cooling-off rule (door-to-door only), the state's home-solicitation statute, any construction-specific framework, notable windows, the statute references, and where to file with the state Attorney General. General information, not legal advice.

Best for: Knowing whether (and how) you can back out of a contractor contract you just signed.

Compare ProFix, Angi, HomeAdvisor, and DIY lead-generation cost pressure.

Best for: Understanding how lead marketplaces can affect contractor overhead.

How much concrete, gravel, mulch, or paint do you need? Enter your dimensions and get cubic yards, bags, tons, or gallons — with the exact formula and cited coverage rates.

Best for: Buying the right quantity of materials without overspending or running short.

Pick the systems your home has and your climate, and get a season-by-season maintenance calendar — every interval cited to NFPA, EPA, ENERGY STAR, or the manufacturer.

Best for: Knowing what to service and when, so small upkeep doesn't become a big repair.

Before a freeze, storm, flood, or heat wave: a checklist of what to do now — each step from NWS, FEMA/Ready.gov, the Red Cross, or the CDC.

Best for: Getting ahead of severe weather instead of calling for emergency help after.

Pick the big-ticket systems your home has and get an honest yearly amount to set aside — each estimate is a real permit-cost median divided by a cited InterNACHI service life, never a fabricated number.

Best for: Building a sinking fund so a roof, furnace, or siding job is saved-for, not a surprise.

Pick a project and review the existing ProFix cost benchmark, permit answer, lifespan, material calculators, license check, and quote links in one place.

Best for: Planning a water heater, panel, furnace, AC, roof, remodel, sewer line, or tree-removal job before hiring.

Tell us what you need and get matched with up to 3 verified Ohio pros.

Best for: You want quotes without calling around.

Proximity search with map view across the full Ohio coverage area.

Best for: Finding the closest licensed pro in your ZIP.

Every Ohio county, metro, and major city covered by ProFix Directory.

Best for: Out-of-metro searches or relocating within Ohio.

Proof-of-work rankings — who actually pulls permits, by trade and jurisdiction.

Best for: Vetting a contractor before signing the contract.

Trust Oracle checks an exact license number against ProFix's 32-state verified-license roster, with possible name matches clearly marked.

Best for: Screening a contractor before you sign, then confirming current status at the official board.

FTC-cited checklist for scam red flags, questions to ask, written contract must-haves, and safer payment steps.

Best for: You verified the license and now want the hiring questions, red flags, contract points, and payment rules.

Direct OCILB license lookup with verification URLs for every licensable trade.

Best for: Confirming a license number a contractor gave you is real and active.

How to request a Certificate of Insurance and check general liability, workers' comp, limits, expiry, and whether the policy is actually active.

Best for: The 'insured' of licensed/bonded/insured — ProFix has no insurance data, so you verify it yourself.

County and city building departments with addresses, hours, and online portals.

Best for: Pulling a permit yourself or checking what your contractor filed.

Choose an Ohio county and project type to see the typical permit answer and office to call.

Best for: Checking water heaters, panel upgrades, furnaces, roofs, remodels, and sewer lines.

Architectural-review flags so exterior work does not get red-tagged after the fact.

Best for: Roof, siding, fence, or driveway projects in HOA neighborhoods.

Public datasets, refresh cadence, and CC-BY-4.0 license terms in one place.

Best for: Journalists, researchers, and data teams citing the directory.

Public APIs, MCP server, JSON-LD feeds, OpenAPI contract, and CSV exports.

Best for: Engineers building integrations or AI agents on top of ProFix.

B2B entry point for embed widgets, lead routing, and dataset licensing.

Best for: Insurance, real estate, utilities, and trade-association partners.

Copy-paste iframe embeds — Real Cost Index lookup, contractor license verify, and material calculators — each with a crawlable attribution backlink.

Best for: Bloggers, realtors, and contractor sites that want a free interactive widget.