The Bid Room · home services
Find out what the work is really worth
A dripping tap or a house on bare land. Describe it once, and the people who could do it each give a price without seeing anyone else’s — so nobody shades their number against a rival. You see every price, and you choose.
Free for customers, always. The winner pays under $10 on a repair, $25 to $175 on a set of drawings. Everybody who does not win pays nothing.
What are you trying to do?
- Something needs fixingA leak, a dead socket, a hole in the wall, a boiler playing up.Post it once and the right trades price it, sealed — every price against the same list of what is and is not included.Start here
- I need plans and a permitBare land, an addition, or a remodel the city will want drawings for.We work out which surveyor, engineer and designer you need — and each one prices their own part.Start here
- I am ready to buildPlans approved and the permit issued, or a remodel ready to start.Every trade hired direct, in the order the work happens. No contractor in the middle taking a cut.Start here
Not sure which? Start with the middle one. Whoever you hire first will tell you what the city wants.
This app works in California. What it tells you about licences, permits and what you may do yourself is California law, and it is different in every other state.
3 sealed prices
$975
The middle price. Usually the fairest guide to what this work is worth.
$260 between the cheapest and the dearest. Every figure is the full price — what each tradesperson would charge once their extras are added on.
What Jean saw after posting “water heater is broken, needs replacing”.
How it works
- 1
Say what needs doing
A sentence in your own words and a photo or two. No forms full of jargon, and no phone calls.
- 2
Tradespeople price it, sealed
Each one submits a price without seeing any other, or even how many others have bid. There is nothing to shade a number against.
- 3
You see every price, and choose
The spread between them is your answer. Take the cheapest, or the one who can finish soonest — it is your call, not ours.
What it costs
The rules that make it honest
A marketplace is only as good as what it refuses to do. These are ours.
Nobody sees a rival's price
Not in the page, not hidden in the data behind it. It is enforced on the server and checked by twelve tests that must pass before anything ships.
Everyone prices the same list
The app publishes what the job includes, and a bid that skips items is refused rather than compared. Nobody wins by quietly leaving work out.
Your address stays yours
Bidders see a neighbourhood, never your address. Photos are stripped of the location your phone hides inside them before anyone else can see them.
Finishing counts, not starting
Anyone can say they will start tomorrow. Every bidder also says when the work would be finished, and that is what you compare on.