Independent research guides
Research you can check, before you spend.
Save.ws publishes research guides built from public data — flood-insurance claims, storm reports, housing age, heating fuel — so you can understand a problem before you pay someone to fix it. Every figure is sourced and cited on the page.
- Home services
- 6
- Metro areas
- 18
- Local guides
- 1,572
Home services
Austin-area guides by service and city. Each city page pairs local public data with what it means for the repair.
Water damage restoration
Flood-insurance claims, flood events and housing age by city.
Roof repair & replacement
Hail and wind reports, roof age and housing stock by city.
AC & heating repair
Heating fuel mix, heat and freeze records, and system age.
Plumbing repair
Pipe-era housing stock, freeze history and flood exposure.
Pest control
Housing type, density and growth that shape pest pressure.
Electrical repair
Wiring-era housing stock, lightning and storm records.
We also cover 17 other US metro areas. See all metros
More research guides
Guides beyond home services, from the same research desk.
Health tests
Plain-English guides to direct-access lab tests: what each test measures, and its limits.
Vision
Contact lens guides: lens types, box counts, rebates, and price comparisons.
Focus & mindset audio
Guided-audio programs for focus and clarity: what the recordings are, and what the evidence says.
Supplements
Evidence-first guides to popular supplements: what's in them, what the published research says, and what it doesn't.
Coming soon
How we research
Public data first
Local figures come from federal datasets — the Census Bureau, NOAA storm records and FEMA flood-insurance claims — pulled by script, not typed by hand.
Cited on the page
Every number links to its source, and each page lists its citations. When a figure isn't available for a city, we leave it out rather than estimate it.
No invented prices
We don't publish local price ranges until we have sourced job-cost data. A number we can't source is a number we don't print.