Plan and run your own home projects, DIY or with hired trades
Start with your home, a cottage or cabin, a rental or a flip, and mark each project DIY, hired or mixed.
Track spending against your budget, keep receipts and photos with each project, and find local electricians, plumbers and tilers in the directory.
Know where the money goes, what each property needs next and who to call.
Free for households. No card and no trial clock. Are you a pro? Get listed free.
- Budget
- $9,500
- Contingency
- $950
- Spent
- $6,240
Upkeep
- Drain the water lines before frostEvery 12 monthsDue Oct 31
- Clean the guttersEvery 6 monthsDue Nov 15
- Reseal the deck boardsEvery 24 monthsDue May 2027
Run a home project from the first plan to the last receipt
Add your properties and projects
Add your main home, a cottage or cabin, a rental or a flip. Mark each project DIY, hired or mixed, so you know which parts you do on weekends and which parts you hire out.
Plan the budget and the shopping list
Set a budget and a contingency share for each project. List the materials with their prices and see the total against the budget before you go to the store.
Find a pro for the parts you hire out
Search the directory for an electrician, a plumber or a tiler near you, and call them directly or ask up to 3 pros at once. Save the pro to your contacts and link them to the phase they do.
Log spending, receipts and photos as you go
Record every purchase and invoice against the budget. Keep a journal with photos of what you found behind the wall, so you can find it again next year.
Keep each project's money and progress in one place
In the 2026 Houzz & Home Study, 37% of renovation projects went over the planned cost, and a quarter of homeowners never set a specific budget (Stacker, read 2026-10-21).
Set the budget before you buy the first board, and see the gap while you can still change course.
- Price the shopping list against the budget and mark each item when you order it.
- Keep receipts and photos with the project they belong to.
- Lay out the schedule, whether you work on weekends or a pro works on weekdays.
- Run the workspace in US dollars, or in euros if you live in Finland.
- Deck boards, pressure treated, 60Ordered$1,380
- Joist hangers and structural screwsOrdered$310
- Concrete post footings, 9To buy$405
- Deck stain, 3 gallonsTo buy$165
- Ordered so far
- $1,690
- Planned, of $3,200 for materials
- $2,260
- Left for materials
- $940
Find local electricians, plumbers and other trades
Many projects need a pro for part of the work, even when you do the rest yourself. Search the directory by trade and by ZIP code, postal code or city, in the US and Finland.
Each profile lists the pro's trades, service areas, phone, email and website. Call or email the pro directly, or send a request from the profile.
- Search for plumbing and heating, tiling and wet rooms, carpentry, roofing, heat pumps, chimney sweeps, sauna builders and more.
- Save a pro to your household's contacts and set them as 'Done by' on the phase they do.
- Ask up to 3 pros at once with Get bids, matched by your postal code and project type.
- Sample Electric Co.ElectricianServes San Diego, ZIP 919 to 921 · State license listed
- Sample Home Services LLCElectricianHeat pumps and HVACServes San Diego County · State license listed
Run the cottage, the rental and the flip from one workspace
Keep every property's projects and upkeep together. Get reminders to drain the cabin water lines before frost, clean the gutters every 6 months or book the chimney sweep.
Mark a property as a flip and enter the purchase price, renovation spend, holding cost per month and target sale price. Plankbook projects the profit as the renovation spend comes in.
- Purchase price
- $212,000
- Renovation spend
- $38,500
- Holding cost, 5 months at $1,450
- $7,250
- Target sale price
- $289,000
- Projected profit
- $31,250
Track Finland's household tax credit as you go
Kotitalousvähennys gives you 40% of the labor cost of qualifying work in 2026 as a tax credit, up to 2,100 EUR per person, after an own share of 150 EUR. The Finnish Tax Administration raised these figures in October 2026 for costs paid from 1 January 2026. For 2025 the rate was 35% and the maximum 1,600 EUR.
Only labor counts, so Plankbook leaves materials out of the estimate. The company doing the work must be in the prepayment register, and work on a summer cottage you own and use qualifies.
Finnish pro profiles in the directory show the business ID (Y-tunnus) and whether the company is in the prepayment register, so you can check before you hire.
Sources: vero.fi, tax credit amount, vero.fi, tax credit for household expenses, Tax Administration guidance, read 2026-10-21. Plankbook gives an estimate, not tax advice.
- Roof repairMaterials 2,600 EUR, not countedLabor 3,800 EUR
- Sauna stove installationMaterials 1,350 EUR, not countedLabor 600 EUR
- 40% of 4,400 EUR labor
- 1,760 EUR
- Own share
- (150 EUR)
- Estimated credit, at most 2,100 EUR
- 1,610 EUR
Are you a pro? Get listed free
Electricians, plumbers, tilers, carpenters and remodelers list their business in the directory for free, with their trades, service areas and contact details.
Homeowners nearby call you directly or send a request from your profile. Add the job tools when you want them.
Get answers about the household workspace and the directory
Yes. Homeowners, DIYers, cottage owners and small flippers use it for free, with no trial and no card.
Pros list their business in the directory for free too. Only the job tools for pros cost money.
Pros list their own business for free, with their trades, service areas, contact details and registrations. Plankbook does not vet pros.
Before you hire, check a US pro's license with your state board. In Finland, check the business ID and the prepayment register in the YTJ business information system. The directory is new, so your area may have few listings yet.
Yes. Use Find a pro in your household workspace to search the directory for your area, and save a pro to your household's contacts. Then set the pro as 'Done by' on the phase they do, so you know who to call about each part of the work.
Pros list themselves with the postal code areas and project types they serve. Plankbook sends your request to up to 3 of them that match, starting with the pros that received the fewest recent requests.
Each pro replies with a price range and the number of weeks, and you compare the replies side by side.
No. Plankbook estimates your credit from the labor on your invoices so you know where you stand during the year. You claim it yourself with the Finnish Tax Administration.
Yes. Open a sample household or a sample remodeling company without an account. We delete the sample after 24 hours unless you create an account.
Plan your next home project for free
Open the sample household with a lake cabin and a flip, or create your own workspace. Households never pay for Plankbook.
Are you a pro? List your business free on the For pros page.