Home services we cover
7 service categories across 2 Texas metros. Each page covers what a contractor should evaluate, the questions worth settling before you compare quotes, and — for 4 of them — the local data we actually measure.
By service
Roofing
Hail at roughly one inch or larger is the common trigger for insurance-eligible roof damage, so recent storm history is the clearest public signal of whether local roofs have taken a beating.
HVAC
What a system costs to run depends on the rate as much as the equipment, so the statewide residential price is the context for any repair-or-replace decision.
Plumbing
Central Texas clay soils shrink as they dry and swell as they rewet. That movement is a well-documented contributor to stress on buried supply and drain lines, so a long dry stretch is worth knowing about.
Fire Damage Restoration
Covered for both metros. No measured local feed for this one yet.
Mold Remediation
Mold follows water. Recorded flooding and storm activity is the public record of when water most recently got into buildings in the area.
Electrical
The statewide residential rate is the benchmark to check your own effective rate against before assuming a high bill is a wiring or equipment problem.
Tree Trimming
Sustained drought stresses mature trees, and drought-weakened limbs are a frequent cause of storm damage later — which makes the drought record a leading indicator for tree work.
How these pages are built
Each service page pairs guidance with whatever we genuinely measure locally. Where a published dataset bears on a service — storm history for roofing, drought for trees and buried plumbing, electricity prices for HVAC — the page shows the real reading with its source and dates, and links to the full dataset. Where we have no relevant feed, the page says so rather than showing an unrelated number.
See the data catalog for everything we track, or ourmethodology for how sourcing and freshness are handled.