For kitchen and bath remodelers who answer their own phone
The jobs you lose are the ones you never hear about.
They leak out in two places: the first five minutes after a homeowner reaches out, and the weeks after you send your estimate. Here's a simple way to plug both.
Everything is on this page: how it works, every cost and the terms. Nobody will call you.
Somewhere near you, a homeowner is waiting on a call back
They have money set aside for a new bathroom. They filled out a form. Soon, they'll hire somebody.
Not the best remodeler in town. Not the cheapest one either.
Odds are, they'll hire the one who got back to them first.
If that's not you, you'll never even know they existed.
This page shows you the two places remodeling jobs leak out of a business like yours, why the second one costs more than the first, and how we plug both.
This is for you if you remodel kitchens and baths and run the business from the truck
- You answer your own phone. From the jobsite. Usually with your hands full.
- No office manager. Maybe your wife helps with the books.
- You know the pattern: busy for months, then a big job wraps up and nothing is lined up behind it.
"The phone stops ringing by end of October and does not ring again until people start getting taxes back."A remodeler on a contractor forum (source 9)
This is not for you if:
- You're booked solid a year out on referrals. Close this page. You don't need it.
- You want somebody to guarantee you jobs. Nobody honest can. Anyone who does is selling you something else.
- You want invoicing, job costing or project management. This doesn't do that.
- You don't do kitchens or baths. The ads, pages and texts are built only for those.
Leak one
The first five minutes
You're on a ladder. Both hands full. Your phone buzzes. A homeowner wants their bathroom redone.
Ladder or phone? Ladder wins. It always does.
You call them back at lunch. "Thanks, but we already have someone coming out."
You didn't lose that job on price. You didn't lose it on quality. You lost it in the first five minutes.
"by the time I check my phone the lead's already called two other guys."A contractor on r/Contractor (source 8)
of home-service companies never answered a web inquiry within five days. Secret shoppers contacted more than 450 of them. Not five minutes. Five days. (source 1)
lower odds of even reaching the person when you call at 30 minutes instead of 5, in a study of more than 15,000 web inquiries. (source 2)
Homeowners aren't loyal to the best contractor. They're loyal to whoever makes them feel answered. That's leak one. Now the expensive one.
Leak two
The weeks after your estimate
You drove across town. Measured. Listened. Answered every question. You wrote it up at the kitchen table long after dinner. You sent it.
And then... nothing.
Did they pick someone else? Did they just get busy? You'll never know. Because you didn't follow up. Not because you're lazy. Because you're a builder, not a salesman, and chasing people feels pushy.
"The reply almost always comes on the third or fourth one, not the first."A remodeler on ContractorTalk (source 10)
Read that again. A lot of the time, the job was still there, waiting on follow-up number three.
Leak one loses strangers. Leak two loses people you already did the work for. The free estimate, the drive, the write-up, the evening. All of it gone, because nobody sent a polite text on day five.

What most remodelers try, and why it doesn't fix the leaks
| What you try | What it costs | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Buy leads | About $25 to $150 per lead (source 6) | The same homeowner often goes to 3 to 5 contractors. Dead numbers. Credits refused. Twelve-month contracts. |
| Hire an agency | About $1,650 to $7,500 a month, before ad spend (source 7) | Price hidden behind a "strategy call." Often a contract. Some even own your website. |
| Buy software | Cheap per month | Another app you set up and run yourself. At night. |
One contractor called buying leads "PAYING for the privilege of competing." (source 11) And notice: buying leads doesn't plug either leak. It just pours more water into a leaking bucket.
You don't have a lead problem. You have a leak problem.
Plug the leaks first, and every homeowner you already get is worth more. Then, if you want more homeowners, every ad dollar goes further.
That's what we built. It's called Book Remodels. It's not an agency and it's not a lead list. It's a system that runs in the background of your business: it answers homeowners in about a minute, books the estimate on your calendar, gets them to show up, and follows up after your estimate until they answer.
How it works
One homeowner, start to finish. We'll call her Linda.
Linda sees your ad
Your ad. Not a lead site's. Your business name, your area, your kind of work.
She answers a few short questions
Kitchen or bath. Rough scope. Timeline. Budget range. Does she own the home. Zip code. Photos if she has them. So you know her budget before you start the truck.
Your phone gets a text
The second she hits submit: her name, her answers, her number and a link to her conversation. Want to handle this one yourself? Reply 1 and the automatic texts stop for her.

Linda gets a text from your business number, in about a minute
It comes from your company's booking assistant. It's honest that it's an assistant and never pretends to be you. It offers her times, only from the days and hours you set for estimates. She replies with the one she wants. Booked. It never quotes a price. If you want, it can share the typical range you gave us, and it always says you give the exact price at the visit.

She gets a confirmation, and a text that introduces you
Your photo, a two-line intro and a link to your reviews. A stranger becomes "the contractor I'm meeting."
Reminders before the visit
She replies to confirm. If she doesn't, you get a heads-up. No driving across town for nothing.
After the visit, you get one text
"Did Linda show? Reply Y or N." You reply Y. That's it. No logging in. No app to learn.

You send your estimate. The system follows up for you.
This is the part that plugs leak two. Short, polite texts, spaced out over the next few weeks. The texts you'd send if you had the time. It stops the second she answers. Later you get "Did Linda sign? Reply Y, N or LOST."

She signs. You reply Y.
Your showed and signed answers are sent back to Facebook, so your ad account records which homeowners turned into real jobs, not just form fills.
If Linda says "not yet"
She gets light check-ins for up to a year, timed to when she said she'd be ready. So the "maybe later" people come back to you, not whoever texted them last.
When a homeowner calls and you can't pick up, your booking assistant answers
During your working hours, calls to your business number ring your phone first. Can't grab it? Up a ladder, at an estimate, after hours? Your booking assistant answers.
- It says up front that it's your company's booking assistant.
- It gets their project, budget and timeline.
- It books the estimate right on the call, inside your estimate hours.
- It texts you the details.
- Anyone who wants to talk to you gets a message taken.
- If calls are recorded, it says so at the start.
It's on from day one, and you can switch it off anytime.

Why fewer homeowners leave you standing at the door
A booked estimate is only worth something if they're home when you knock. Every booking gets the same set of small things that make showing up easy and not showing up awkward.
- Booked within 1 to 3 days. Times are offered close in, while interest is high.
- Meet-your-contractor text. Your photo, a two-line intro, your reviews.
- Photos of the space before the visit. They're invested, and you see the job before you drive.
- Both decision-makers there. The booking asks who else decides and invites them too.
- A calendar invite on their phone, next to everything else they've committed to.
- An easy reschedule link, so they move it instead of ghosting.
- One-tap "on my way" text. You tap once, they get "[Your name] is on the way."
- An optional confirmation call if they still haven't confirmed. You choose.
- Same-day no-show rebook. A polite text offering a new time.
We can't promise every homeowner shows up. Nobody can. This removes the usual reasons they don't.
The ads: your ad account, your homeowners
Don't want more homeowners right now? Skip this part. Everything above still works on every homeowner who already calls your business number, texts or fills out your form. If you do, the system runs ads for you on Facebook and Instagram.
- Your ad account. Your ads. Your homeowners. We never sell or share that homeowner. No per-lead charge.
- Ready-made bathroom and kitchen ad angles. You pick your area, your budget and which projects you want.
- You see every ad before it runs, with the page it sends homeowners to. Uncheck any you don't like.
- Every ad gets a fair test. Each gets its own small budget and has to spend a minimum before it's judged. Losers get shut off. Winners keep running.
- Your monthly ad spend stays inside the cap you set, backed by a spending limit on your ad account.
- Booked out? Text PAUSE ADS. Ready again? Text START ADS.
- Real jobs go back to Facebook. When you reply Y for "showed" or "signed," your ad account keeps a record of which homeowners became real jobs.

Here's what you do. Here's what it does.
You
- Follow the setup steps, one at a time
- Connect your calendar and Facebook ad account
- Set your estimate hours and monthly ad cap
- Show up to estimates
- Reply Y, N or LOST
Book Remodels
- Texts every new homeowner in about a minute
- Books estimates inside your hours
- Answers the calls you can't and books them
- Gets them to show up
- Follows up after every estimate
- Checks in with "maybe later" homeowners for a year
- Runs your ads and texts you a daily summary
That's your whole job. Everything else runs without you.
The math, in numbers whoever keeps your books can check
| Small primary bathroom, national median | about $18,000 (source 3) |
| Average remodeler gross margin | about 30% (source 4) |
| Gross profit on one small bathroom | about $5,400 |
| Gross profit on one large kitchen ($55,000 median) | about $16,500 |
| One full year of Book Remodels | $2,000 |
One small bathroom covers a full year of Book Remodels more than twice over.
Gross profit is what's left after materials, labor and subs, before overhead. This is math, not a promise of jobs. Your area, prices and close rate change it.
Run your own numbers
Usage wallet assumed at $40 a month.
Add your own guesses
These defaults are on the low side on purpose. Change them to what you see.
With no ads, the system works on homeowners who already call, text or fill out your form.
This is your math, not a promise. The defaults are national figures. Your area, prices and close rate will change the result.
What it costs
First, what the other options cost. An agency: about $1,650 to $7,500 a month, with a contract, before ad spend (source 7). Shared leads: about $25 to $150 each, and you're bidding against four other guys (source 6).

Monthly
- No contract
- Cancel any time
- Founding price locked while you stay
Best for trying it.
Annual
- That's four months free (about $167 a month)
- One payment covers the whole year
- Founding price locked while you stay
Best once you've decided.
No setup fee. No per-lead charge. No markup on your ad spend. No sales call.
Checkout opens soon. Join the founding list below and you'll get the checkout link first.
"Why so cheap?"
Because there's no sales team. No account managers. No calls. It's built once, then installed in your account. That's the only reason it costs what software costs instead of what an agency costs.
Here's everything you get
- Your own ads on Facebook and Instagram, run and managed for you, from ready-made bathroom and kitchen ad angles
- An Ads page that shows every ad and landing page before it runs
- Every homeowner qualified before you see them: project, budget, timeline, owns the home
- An alert text to your phone with their answers, a tap-to-call number and a link to the conversation
- A text to the homeowner from your business number in about a minute
- Booked straight onto your calendar, only inside the hours you set
- A booking assistant that answers the calls you can't, and books the estimate on the call
- Show-up texts: confirmations, reminders, the meet-your-contractor text, reschedule link, "on my way" text and same-day rebooking
- Follow-up after every estimate, until they answer
- Up to a year of check-ins for the "maybe later" homeowners
- Your own website and homeowner pages on your own domain, built for you
- A text every day showing what your ads did
- Outcomes sent back to Facebook when you reply Y
- A setup that walks you through it, one step at a time
- Written help by text, chat and email
- Founding price locked for as long as you stay subscribed
All of that: $250 a month, no contract. Or $2,000 for the year and save $1,000.
Let's be straight about the rest
Your ad spend is separate
It goes straight to Facebook, on your card. We don't touch it and we don't mark it up. You pick it. We suggest starting around $900 to $1,500 a month (about $30 to $50 a day).
Your usage wallet is small and you control it
Texts, calls and your business phone number come from a small prepaid balance. Typically $25 to $60 a month. A busy month costs more than a slow one. Every charge shows in your wallet history. It's never refilled without your OK. Auto-refill is off unless you turn it on, and if the balance runs low you get a text first.
The easy way to try it
Start monthly. No contract. Cancel any time.
What's yours, always
Your Facebook ad account, your ads and your ad history. Your homeowner list, which you can export anytime, including if you cancel. Your website domain.
What it won't do
- It won't invoice, do job costing or manage your projects.
- It won't fix your pricing, and it won't close the sale for you.
- It won't guarantee jobs. Nobody honest can.
- It won't quote prices. It shares your typical ranges only if you give them.
- It won't make every homeowner a good one. Asking budget and timeline up front filters a lot of tire kickers. Not all of them.
It gets you in front of the homeowner and keeps you there. The rest is you. That's the part you're already good at.
Founding price: the first 50 remodelers lock it in
The first 50 remodelers lock in $250 a month or $2,000 a year for as long as they stay subscribed. When those 50 spots are gone, the price goes up for everyone after. Not for you.
Why only 50? Every new account needs its phone number, text registration and setup done right. We'd rather do 50 well than 500 badly.
Founding spots go in the order people pay once checkout opens. No countdown. Cancel and come back later, and you pay whatever the price is then.
Setup: your account opens the minute you check out
Your login comes by email the moment you pay. Then setup walks you through it, one step at a time. One next step lights up on your Home screen, your setup assistant texts you each step with a link, and finishing one unlocks the next.
- Your business info
- Connect your calendar. Calls and alerts work from here.
- File your text registration. Everything is pre-filled for you.
- Connect your Facebook ad account and set your monthly spending limit
- Add your photo and reviews link, and approve your intro by replying Y
- Preview and pick your ads, and set your budget
- Test it yourself and watch the alert hit your phone
Texting turns on when the phone carriers approve your registration, usually within a few days. You submit it yourself, in your business's name, with everything already written for you. Have your legal business name, federal tax ID (Employer Identification Number), business address and a business document handy.
You also get your own one-page company website from our template, plus your privacy policy, terms and homeowner pages, on your own domain.
Founding list
Get the checkout link first
Checkout opens soon. Join the founding list and you'll get the link by email before anyone else, so you can lock in $250 a month or $2,000 a year as one of the first 50.
Joining is free and doesn't commit you to anything. Nobody will call you.
Quick answers
Is there a contract?
No. Cancel any time. Annual is one payment for the year and saves you $1,000.
Can I try it first?
Start monthly. No contract. Cancel any time. Full details are in the terms.
What else will I pay?
Your ad spend, which you pick and Facebook bills to your card. And your usage wallet for texts, calls and your number, typically $25 to $60 a month. No setup fee.
Is this AI talking to my customers?
It's an automatic text in your company's name, honest that it's your booking assistant. On calls during your working hours, your phone rings first; the assistant answers when you can't, and after hours, and it always says who it is. You still run the estimate.
Do I have to log in or learn an app?
No. Alerts come by text. You report results by replying Y, N or LOST. The ad summary comes by text.
Can I keep my phone number?
Yes. Keep your cell for everything you do now. Your ads, pages and texts use a new local business number, because texting has to be registered on the number that sends it. During your working hours, calls to that number ring your cell first.
How long until it's live?
Your account opens the minute you check out. Calls and alerts work as soon as your calendar is connected. Texting turns on once the carriers approve your registration, usually within a few days.
Do I have to run ads?
No. It still works on every homeowner who already calls your business number, texts or fills out your form.
I tried Facebook ads before and got junk. Why is this different?
A boosted post isn't a test. Here, every homeowner gives budget, timeline and whether they own the home before you see them, and every ad gets a fair test before it's judged. The first few weeks are a learning period, and some homeowners will still go quiet.
I don't want anybody loading up my calendar.
It only books the days and hours you open for estimates. Nothing else.
Do I own my stuff?
Your ad account is yours. Your homeowner list is yours to export, anytime. Your domain is yours.
My work comes from referrals.
Good. Keep them. They're the best work there is. This is for the slow months and the gap between big jobs.
Do you sell this to my competitor down the street?
We don't lock territories. But your homeowners come only to you, because they come from your ads, in your ad account, to your pages.
Can I talk to someone first?
There are no sales calls, and nobody will call you. Put your question in the founding list form and you'll get a written answer by email.
So here's where you are
You can close this page and keep doing what you're doing. Ladder or phone. Estimates that go quiet. Busy, then dead, then busy again. And the slow months come back around, same as always.
Or picture this instead. You're on the ladder. Your phone buzzes. This time, it's a text:
"Linda booked. Thursday, 10 AM. Full bathroom. Budget: $25K to $35K."
You never stopped working. And that estimate you sent last week? That homeowner just answered follow-up number three: "When can you start?"
That's what plugging the leaks feels like.
Here's what to do right now
Have whoever keeps the books check the math above. Then pick one: Monthly to try it. Annual if you want to save $1,000.
Checkout opens soon. The founding list gets the checkout link first, by email. No sales call. No setup fee.
Fill the slow months before they get here.
- 40% of home-service companies never responded within 5 days: Valve+Meter secret-shopper test, reported by Pro Remodeler.
- Odds of reaching a lead about 100 times lower at 30 minutes than at 5: Oldroyd and Elkington, Lead Response Management Study.
- Small primary bath median about $18,000; large kitchen about $55,000: Houzz 2026 renovation medians.
- Remodeler gross margin 29.9%: National Association of Home Builders, Remodelers' Cost of Doing Business.
- About $43 per lead, home improvement: WordStream benchmarks.
- Shared leads $25 to $150, often sent to 3 to 5 contractors: Block Renovation.
- Agency retainers $1,650 to $7,500 a month: Colorado Web Impressions; Builder Funnel.
- "by the time I check my phone...": r/Contractor.
- "The phone stops ringing by end of October...": ContractorTalk.
- "The reply almost always comes on the third or fourth one...": ContractorTalk.
- "PAYING for the privilege of competing": ContractorTalk.