Community

Open public, no member-to-member contact. Every comment lands in the founder inbox. Useful signal surfaces back into the site; junk gets auto-replied. The site does not let strangers connect with each other — by design.

What gets read

• Local-jurisdiction code quirks the MN page does not yet capture.
• Trade-by-trade DIY experience reports (what really happened on your build, what the inspector flagged).
• Heat-pump model recommendations with real cold-climate data, ideally with a year of energy logs.
• Plywood-shiplap fire-rating answers from your county.
• Geothermal-loop tales — what trenching cost, what the licensed installer charged for tying in, what the rebate paid back.
• Variant requests for sites we have not modeled (steep slope, very narrow infill, shoreland).

What does not get a reply

• Solicitations.
• Generic "great site" notes (read and appreciated, not responded to).
• Requests for one-on-one design consulting (we are not a design service).