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).