Write for us
Write for Us Home Improvement and Repair Guides
Write for us home improvement and home-emergency guides: sourced, safety-first, for a US audience. Nine categories, seventy-eight guides, and a first year of organic growth. No fee is paid in either direction, and every byline carries a real credential.
The short version
Original and sourced, calm and safety-first, disclosed if paid. Email a one-paragraph pitch to [email protected] and we will reply if it fits.
How it works
From pitch to published in three steps
- 01
Pitch the idea first
Email a one-paragraph pitch and a working title. Tell us the reader problem it solves and the sources you will cite. We reply to fits.
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Write to our standard
Original, sourced, calm and genuinely useful: with a clear safety line on any risky task. We edit for accuracy and house style.
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Disclosure and publish
Sponsored posts and any affiliate links are labelled per FTC and Google policy. Once it meets the bar, we schedule and publish.
What we accept
- Original home-emergency and repair guides that fit one of our nine categories
- Real, sourced cost breakdowns and honest hiring advice
- Practical safety content that routes risky work to professionals
- Data, checklists or tools a homeowner would actually use
What we decline
- Thin, spun or AI-dumped filler with no sourcing
- Dangerous do-it-yourself instructions for gas, live electrical, structural or height work
- Undisclosed paid links or keyword-stuffed anchor text
- Off-topic pitches (crypto, casino, unrelated SaaS)
Straight answers
Frequently asked questions
The questions homeowners actually search for on this problem, answered in plain language.
Browse all guidesWho can write for us home improvement guides?
Working tradespeople and technicians first: licensed plumbers, electricians, HVAC techs, locksmiths, restoration and roofing contractors, pest operators. We also take adjusters, inspectors and code officials. What we need is first-hand knowledge and a credential we can state accurately, not a portfolio of published articles.
Do you pay contributors?
No, and we do not charge either. This is an exchange: your expertise for a credited byline on a maintained page that names your license type, your state and the company you work for. If you need a fee, we are not the right home for the piece and we will say so quickly.
Do you accept sponsored guest posts?
Yes, within our niche and always clearly disclosed per FTC guidance and Google’s link-spam policy. Sponsorship never changes our safety guidance, and we decline anything that would mislead readers.
What does it cost, and what are rates?
We are early, so rates are modest and rise with traffic. Email us for the current guest-post and link-insertion rate card. Editorial fit and quality come first: a poor piece will not run at any price.
How do I pitch?
Email [email protected] with a one-paragraph idea, a working title, the reader problem it solves, and the authoritative sources you plan to cite. We reply to pitches that fit.
How long should a guide be?
Long enough to answer the question and no longer. Our cluster guides typically run 1,800 to 2,900 words because that is what it takes to cover triage, causes, costs and the hire decision properly. We would rather run a tight 1,400 words that earns every one of them than a padded 3,000.
Do I need to be licensed to contribute?
For hands-on trade content, yes, or you need equivalent verifiable experience. We will ask what you hold and publish it accurately. For research-led pieces such as cost analysis or claims-process explainers, a license is not required, but the sourcing bar is the same and the byline will describe what you actually are.
Can I link to my own company?
Yes, in your byline, and in the body where it is genuinely the reference a reader needs. What we decline is keyword-stuffed anchor text pointing at a commercial page, and any link placed as payment without disclosure. A relevant link to your own work, clearly attributed to you, is not a problem.
Will you rewrite my piece?
We edit, sometimes heavily, for accuracy, safety framing and house style. We do not change your technical claims without asking you first. You see the edited draft before it publishes, and if the edit has moved something you disagree with, we would rather resolve it than run a version you do not stand behind.
Do you accept AI-written drafts?
Not as submissions. The whole reason we want contributors is the first-hand detail a model cannot produce, and a draft assembled from existing articles gives us nothing our own research does not already cover. Using a tool to tidy your own writing is fine; sending us something you did not write is not.
What we are actually looking for
The pages that work on this site answer a homeowner mid-failure: what to do in the next five minutes, what it costs, and when to stop and call somebody licensed. If you work in one of these trades, the detail you take for granted is exactly the detail that is missing from every competing article.
The things we cannot get anywhere else are the ones only a working tradesperson knows.
Trade-specific guidelines: plumbing, HVAC, roofing and pest control.
- The symptom that separates two faults with the same presentation.
- The timing tell: how long a thing runs before it cuts out, and what that rules out.
- The check you do first because it is free and catches a third of calls.
- The part that costs fifteen dollars but gets quoted as a replacement.
- The reason a job that looked simple on the phone doubles once you are on site.
Those details make a page worth reading, and rewriting a competitor’s article never produces them.
We are equally interested in the honest limits. A paragraph saying you cannot tell two faults apart without a meter, and why, beats a confident troubleshooting tree that sends someone poking at a live panel. If the real answer is “call somebody”, we publish that with the reasoning attached.
Your byline, your credentials
We do not invent authors. Every byline belongs to a real person whose credential we can state accurately, so we will ask what you hold: license type, state, years in the trade, the company. If you would rather not be named we can run the piece unbylined, but never under a fictional persona.
We will also ask you to disclose anything you sell. If you own the company, distribute the part, or have a commercial interest in the recommendation, that is fine and it gets printed. The disclosure is not a penalty; the omission would be.
One thing we cannot offer is a review credit. We do not carry reviewer bylines or reviewer schema on this site, because our guides are compiled from cited sources rather than checked by a retained professional, and claiming otherwise would be exactly the kind of manufactured trust signal we spend the rest of this page arguing against.
Write for us home improvement guides a homeowner can act on
The people who write for us home improvement material are working tradespeople first. The trade is full of people who know something that is not written down anywhere a homeowner can find it, and that knowledge is worth more on a page that cites you by license type and state.
What you get is a credited byline on a guide that is maintained rather than abandoned, alongside the nine categories and seventy-eight guides already published on Emergency Services 24H. What we get is the detail we cannot research our way to.
No money moves in either direction. If you want to write for us home improvement material, pitch the single failure you know better than anyone else covering it. If a paid placement is what you are after, that is the advertising page, a different conversation with different rules.
What happens after you send it
We edit for accuracy first and house style second. Expect questions: where a figure came from, whether a range is national or from your own market, whether a step is safe for a reader without your training. Nothing is published without you seeing the edited version.
After publication the piece stays live and maintained. Prices get re-checked against their published sources, and reader corrections are reviewed against the source rather than waved through or ignored. If a correction affects something you wrote, we will tell you before we change it.
The standard a pitch is measured against is written down rather than implied. Our how we source and correct figures sets out how figures are sourced, how corrections are handled, and what we will not publish, and it is the fastest way to see whether your draft already fits before you spend a week on it.
Editorial and partnerships
Pitch us an article
Tell us your trade, where you work, and the piece you want to write. The pitch matters more than the bio: we are looking for the thing you know that a manufacturer PDF does not.