Community

The DIY Community

Where DIYers actually get help, how to ask so you get an answer, and everything we publish for free. We don't run a forum, and this page will tell you where to go instead.

We do not host a forum.

There is no message board here, no comment section, and no member directory. Building one badly is worse than not building one, and the DIY community already has rooms that work. What we do instead is publish the reference material that community keeps asking each other for, keep all of it free and un-gated, and point you at the groups that answer fastest.

Where the DIY community actually is

Almost all of it sits behind a login, which is why you cannot find any of it from a search engine. Facebook groups are where most day-to-day DIY questions get answered now, and the good ones are specific, current, and photo-driven in a way no article can be.

The best DIY Facebook groups
Seven active groups worth joining, which ones suit general DIY, old houses, remodels, or woodworking, and how to write a post that actually gets fixed.
Staying organized on a DIY project
The tracking habits that stop a weekend job from becoming a six-month one, whatever tool you keep it in.

How to ask so you get a real answer

The difference between a post with two replies and a post with forty is almost entirely in the first post. Regulars answer questions that are cheap to answer.

  • Photograph wider than you think. The close-up of the crack is useless without the shot showing where the wall meets the ceiling and the floor.
  • Say what the house is. Age, construction and location change the answer completely.
  • Give real measurements. Spans, spacings and thicknesses, in numbers. “It sags a bit” is not a span.
  • Say what you already tried, including the thing that made it worse. It is the most useful sentence in any DIY post and the one people leave out.
  • Do the arithmetic before you post. Nobody wants to work out your board feet or your paint coverage for you, and the calculators take a few seconds.

A comment thread is the wrong place for anything structural, anything on a gas line, and anything a permit or an inspection attaches to. Those need someone who can look at the actual building.

What we publish for the community

All of it is free, none of it needs an account, and none of it is a trial. This is the part of DIYProject.ai that belongs to everyone.

50+ free calculators
Paint coverage, board feet, deck boards, concrete volume, flooring, sheet nesting, and more.
100+ printable cheat sheets
Electrical, plumbing, framing, fasteners and finishes, each one built to print on a single page and live in the toolbox.
Browse by topic
Every calculator, cheat sheet and guide, grouped by the kind of project you are tackling.
The blog, and one email a week
Project guides and roundups, plus new calculators and cheat sheets as they ship. Subscribe from the footer.

Working with other people in the app

Inside DIYProject.ai the social surface is small and deliberate: shared workspaces and a public wishlist. That is the whole of it.

Shared workspaces. Invite the people you are actually doing the project with, a partner, a housemate, a sibling helping with a rental, and they see the same plan, materials list and step checklist you do. Pro includes up to five members in a workspace.

A public wishlist. Tools and supplies you want, on a page you can hand to anyone who asks what to get you. It is off by default and you turn it on yourself.