Setting Up Your Home
Adding a home
- On the dashboard, click Add home.
- Enter a name (required) and your full street address.
- Optional fields: type (single family, townhouse, condo, etc.), year built, square footage, stories, fuel type, purchase date, and whether it's a rental.
- Save.
Free accounts get 1 home. Premium gets 3. Pro gets unlimited.
How geocoding works
When you add or update an address, we call the US Census Bureau geocoder (free, no API key) to look up:
- Latitude/longitude — used for weather alerts and the property map image.
- Climate zone — drives seasonal maintenance templates (when to service heating vs. cooling, winterize pipes, etc.).
- Radon zone — pulled from EPA county-level data.
If our geocoder can't resolve your address (rural routes and very new developments are the most common cases), you can enter latitude and longitude manually under Home settings → Location.
Property map image
We fetch a satellite image of your property from Google Static Maps and cache it for 30 days. If the image doesn't appear, make sure geocoding succeeded — the map needs valid coordinates.
Updating your home later
Go to Home settings. Changing the address re-runs geocoding and updates your climate/radon zones automatically. Seasonal tasks on your existing schedule won't be rewritten, but newly generated items will use the updated zones.
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