Questions, answered honestly.

The things people ask most, switch between homeowners and tradespeople using the toggle above, plus step-by-step walkthroughs for using My Home and My Business further down the page.

Free to browse and price. You can explore the full catalogue, see approximate region-adjusted costs, and search local tradespeople without paying anything. Qome Plus (a flat fee) adds the tools to plan, budget, track and manage a whole renovation.

See what's free

Two flat fees, no cut of any job. Homeowners can upgrade to Qome Plus for the full planning tools, and tradespeople pay an annual subscription for a full profile and business tools. We take no commission and don't pad prices to pay ourselves.

See what Qome Plus adds

They're built from UK cost data, cross-checked across multiple sources, and updated regularly. Think of them as honest guides to what work typically costs, not binding quotes. Your own plan gives you a tailored estimate.

Try the price calculator

We don't verify accreditations ourselves. Where a tradesperson declares one, Gas Safe, NICEIC, FENSA, MCS, FMB, TrustMark and more, we link straight to the official public register so you can check it yourself in seconds.

Browse tradespeople

Yes. Share a plan with family or friends so you can build and structure the project together, rather than deciding everything alone.

See how planning together works

No. Your plans and details are yours. We don't sell homeowner data or hand your contact details out as leads.

Read our Privacy Policy
How to use My Home

Tell Qome about your house once, and every price you see gets personalised to it.

  1. Open My Home from the bottom tab bar.
  2. Tap Property profile.
  3. Add your postcode, house type, bedrooms and year built.
  4. Save, and every estimate from here on adjusts to your actual home.
Set up your property profile

Save a room's dimensions once and skip re-measuring every time a job needs them.

  1. In My Home, tap My Rooms.
  2. Tap add a room and give it a name, like Kitchen or Bathroom.
  3. Enter its dimensions.
  4. It's now saved and ready whenever an estimate needs an area.
Add your first room

Work out exactly how much paint, tile or flooring you need before you buy any of it.

  1. Open My Home, then Room Calculators.
  2. Pick paint, tiles, flooring or wallpaper.
  3. Enter your room's dimensions, or pull them straight from My Rooms.
  4. Get a straight answer on how much to buy and roughly what it'll cost.
Try a room calculator

A guided seasonal walk-round that catches small problems before they turn into expensive ones.

  1. Open My Home, then Home Inspection.
  2. Tap log your first walkthrough.
  3. Work through each area of the house and flag anything that needs attention.
  4. Set how often you'd like to be reminded to do it again.
Log your first walkthrough

Never miss a boiler service, a gutter clear or a smoke alarm check again.

  1. Open My Home, then Home reminders.
  2. Turn on the reminders that apply to your home, boiler, gutters, smoke alarm, EPC and more.
  3. Set how often each one should repeat.
  4. Qome flags it in-app as the date gets close.
Set up your reminders

Keep your shut-offs, boiler details and paint colours somewhere you'll actually find them again.

  1. Open My Home, then House Vault.
  2. Add where your stopcock and fuse box are.
  3. Log your boiler's make and model, and any paint colours you've used, as you go.
  4. It's all there next time you need it, no digging through old emails or photos.
Start your House Vault

A print-ready card with your shut-offs and key numbers, for anyone looking after your home while you're away.

  1. Fill in House Vault first, Emergency Card pulls straight from it.
  2. Open My Home, then Emergency Card.
  3. Tap print or share.
  4. Stick it inside a cupboard door, or hand it to whoever's house-sitting.
Create your Emergency Card

Track your gas and electric readings to spot a leak early and keep evidence if you ever need to dispute a bill.

  1. Open My Home, then Meter Readings.
  2. Log a reading whenever you check your meter.
  3. Qome tracks the trend over time.
  4. A sudden spike is worth investigating before it becomes a big bill.
Log a meter reading

Keep the tradespeople you trust in one private black book, instead of scattered across old texts.

  1. Open My Home, then My Trades Book.
  2. Tap add a contact.
  3. Save their name, trade and contact details.
  4. Pull them straight up next time you need that exact job done again.
Add a trusted tradesperson

Track a job while it's happening, then keep it as part of your home's story once it's done.

  1. Start a plan, then activate it to move it into Live Projects.
  2. Open My Home, then Live Projects to follow it while work is on.
  3. Log costs against it as they come in, so planned vs actual stays accurate.
  4. Mark it complete and it moves automatically into Renovation history, for good.
See how live tracking works

Save fixtures and fittings you like, with prices, ready for whenever the time comes.

  1. Open My Home, then Wishlist.
  2. Tap add an item and save a link, price and note.
  3. When you start a project, pull items straight from your Wishlist into the plan.
  4. Nothing gets forgotten between now and starting the job.
Start a Wishlist

No. Qome takes no commission on the jobs you win, what you earn is yours. We're funded by a flat subscription, not a slice of your work.

See exactly how it works

Qome Trade is a flat annual subscription with no commission on top. You'll see the current price when you set up your profile, so you know exactly what you're signing up to.

Claim your business

Quite possibly. We build profiles from public registers, so many businesses already have a listing. Search for yours, check the details, and claim it as your own.

Search for your listing

Yes. You can carry your reviews and work history onto your Qome profile, so your reputation is working for you from the moment you go live.

See how reviews work

A full public profile (photo gallery, featured services, your own qome.co.uk URL), a job pipeline with payment tracking from quoted to paid, tax and compliance reminders for Self Assessment, VAT and CIS, linked Google and Trustpilot reviews, a weekly digest, and direct contact with no reveal step.

See all the business tools

We don't verify them ourselves. For every declared accreditation, we link directly to the official public register so you can check it yourself in seconds.

Claim your business
How to use My Business

HMRC and Companies House deadlines, without you having to remember them yourself.

  1. Open My Business, then Tax & compliance reminders.
  2. Turn on the ones that apply to you, Self Assessment, VAT, CIS, Corporation Tax and more.
  3. For Corporation Tax or your Confirmation Statement, enter your own dates.
  4. Urgency shows in-app automatically as each date gets close.
Set up your tax reminders

Your trade account numbers, on hand on site, instead of buried in an old email.

  1. Open My Business, then Supplier accounts.
  2. Add accounts for the merchants you use, Travis Perkins, Selco, Howdens, Toolstation and others.
  3. Save the account number and any notes against each one.
  4. Pull it up on site next time you're at the counter.
Save your supplier accounts

Staff pay, materials, tools and job profit, all logged in one place.

  1. Open My Business, then Business Log.
  2. Go to the Team tab and tap add a team member.
  3. Log who worked, which days, and whether you've paid them, tagging it to a specific job if you want to see that job's profit.
  4. Log materials and tools the same way, then check Insights to see which jobs and job types are actually paying.
Open your Business Log

The roadmap is shaped by what tradespeople actually vote for, not just what we guess you want.

  1. Open My Business, then What's coming.
  2. Browse the features currently on the roadmap.
  3. Vote for the ones that would help your business most.
  4. We build based on what gets the most votes.
Vote on the roadmap