Pro.com Tells You How Much Those Home Repairs You’ve Been Putting Off Are Going to Cost

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Pro.com, launching today, is a service that will send a single home contractor to your door to take care of several home-repair and maintenance items on your list, all at once.

Tell the site you need a new water heater, a room painted, and a fence repaired, and the service will scour its list for a contracting company that can do it all for you. It’ll also come up with an estimated cost of the entire project, based on your location and additional details you provide.

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Pro.com has a nice tool for knocking a lot of projects off your “honey do” list at once.

In Seattle only so far, you can also book a contractor. That’s the model for Pro.com’s future: The company is trying to make home repair as easy as it is now to book a restaurant (OpenTable), find a private car and driver (Uber or Lyft), or get information about car repair (YourMechanic).

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If you’re in Seattle, Pro.com will let you book contractors. If not, sorry; you’ve got to pick up the phone and call one yourself.

Unfortunately for everywhere in the U.S. but Seattle, the best the site can do right now is give you a price estimate and find a contracting company that can do the jobs you need, based on data Pro.com has gathered from its various sources. The company’s CEO says Pro.com does a better job of qualifying contractors than anyone. But you still have to contact the contractor and set up the appointment yourself.

Rafe Needleman can be reached at rafeneedleman@yahoo.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @rafe.