A Home Maintenance Blog That Shows Its Sources
We write cleaning, maintenance, kitchen and DIY guides for people running a household. The thing that makes them worth reading is not a secret trick. It is that every technical claim can be traced back to where it came from.
- Never sponsored, ever
- No tests we have not done
- Every claim traced to a source
What we are for
Household advice online has a specific failure mode. It is confident, it is unsourced, and it is written by someone who has never had to undo the damage. You follow it, something goes wrong, and there is nobody to ask why.
HomeNerdy is built around the opposite habit. When we tell you a method works, we tell you who says so: the manufacturer's care instruction, an industry standard, a professional body such as the EPA or OSHA, or a trade association. When the honest answer is that a method is widely used but not formally documented, we say that too.
Research first, our own tests labelled
How-to guides and buying guides do different jobs, and both are research-led. Where a how-to guide reports a test we ran ourselves, it says so at that point. No buying guide claims we used the products.
Guides
Built from manufacturer documentation, industry standards and professional consensus, and written in the language of evidence: commonly recommended, per manufacturer guidance, widely reported. Never dressed up as hands-on testing.
Nerdy Reviews
Picks compared using manufacturer specifications, independent certifications where they exist and verified owner reviews. No free samples, no sponsored placements, no copy approval, and no claim that we used the products.
A hands-on product review is a stricter standard: bought at retail price, used over weeks, and saying how long. We have not published one yet; if we do, it will be labelled as one. Being straight about that matters more to us than looking bigger than we are.
Four people, all named
Small enough that you can see who wrote what. Every guide carries a byline, every byline is a person, and our editor reads each one before it publishes.
- Sancha TorresEditor
- Sophie HarperWriter
- Joe CarrowWriter
- Jake MorrisonWriter
Guest contributions are always labelled as guest contributions, and never folded into a house byline.
The numbers, without decoration
- 43guides published
- 30on cleaning
- 11on the kitchen
- 0sponsored posts, ever
We would rather publish a small library that stays accurate than a large one that quietly rots. Guides get updated in place; we do not rewrite a date to look fresh.
Affiliate links, stated plainly
Some links to products are affiliate links, mostly Amazon. If you buy through one, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. That is the whole business model.
What it does not buy: a place in a guide. Nothing is included because it pays better, no brand has ever paid to appear here, and we have never accepted a free product in exchange for coverage. Where a cheaper option performs nearly as well, the guide says so, even though it earns us less.
The method page is where the claims on this page get their detail.What we check, what we refuse to claim, and how corrections work.
Read how we work