New here? Give us 5 minutes and we’ll give you a community that makes your house better. Backed by LF Builders — 50 years serving the GTA, 30,000+ completed projects — and built for homeowners, DIYers, and trade pros across Canada.
Your first 5 minutes (do these in order)
Set your location — tap the “Personalized for…” banner at the top of the feed. Your feed instantly tunes to your city: local cost guides, local contractors, local conversations. Orangeville? Toronto? Halifax? We’ve got you.
Introduce yourself — one post. Where you are, what you’re renovating. Watch the replies roll in.
Watch one Short — the video rail on the homepage. 30 seconds = one real renovation skill. That’s a lesson, and the site remembers it.
Open your rewards — tap the floating coin (bottom-right). That’s your Missions hub. You already earned $RENO just by signing up.
LEARN: Shorts — renovation skills in 30-second bites
Our short-video library teaches real skills: tiling, drywall, plumbing, electrical, carpentry, concrete, painting and more — fresh videos added every 6 hours.
- Pick your trade: tap a skill chip (Carpentry, Plumbing, Tiling…) and the lineup becomes your personal classroom
- Your learning journey: the site tracks skills explored and lessons completed — “7/11 skills, 23 lessons” — with milestones, streaks and (yes) confetti
- Browse a trade category like Trade Talk and the Shorts rail auto-scopes to that trade
ASK: real answers from real renovators
- Trade Talk — pros and seasoned DIYers on techniques, costs, and what actually works
- DIY & Tutorials — step-by-step builds and fixes
- Homeowners — quotes, permits, contractor questions, “is this normal?”
- Local cost guides for kitchens, eavestroughs, windows, heat pumps, basements and more — researched for Canadian prices, updated for 2026
EARN: the $RENO rewards economy
Every helpful thing you do here earns $RENO, our community coin:
Post & reply — helpful posts earn automatically
Daily chest — claim it every day, build a streak
Missions — 200+ challenges from “first post” to “renovation scholar”
Tips — readers can tip your great answers, $RENO goes straight to you
Shop, bounties, tournaments, squads — spend it, stake it, compete with it
Leaderboard — climb tiers from Bronze to Diamond, show off your rank on your profile
CONNECT: your renovation people
- Follow builders and helpful members — their posts and reposts surface in your Following feed
- Profiles that mean something: tier ring, lessons learned, trophies, $RENO rank, activity timeline
- Verified Pro badges for vetted tradespeople
Community with heart: our own Samm Simon just ran 251 KM for cancer research with this community behind him every step
Why people stick around
This isn’t a forum you read — it’s a place you level up. You learn a skill before breakfast, get a quote sanity-checked by lunch, and earn rewards for helping someone in your own city by dinner.
Hit reply and tell us: what’s the next thing you want to fix, build, or renovate? First-time posters get their questions answered fast — that’s a community promise.
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