Hoomerly is an independent review and buying guide site covering the products that actually matter at home — from the appliances inside your kitchen to the equipment in your garage and the tools you use in your backyard. We don’t take money from brands, we don’t publish press releases dressed up as reviews, and we don’t recommend something we wouldn’t buy ourselves.
Every category on this site is covered by someone with real, hands-on experience in that area. Not generalist writers. Not content farms. People who have actually used, broken, fixed, and formed opinions on the kind of products they write about.
Who We Are
Jessica Lane (Home Appliances)
Jessica is a full-time homemaker based in the Midwest with two dogs, two kids, and a serious interest in knowing which appliances are actually worth the money. She spent several years working on the sales floor of a regional appliance retailer, where she learned fast that the products customers came back to return told a very different story than the ones on the display floor. She covers robot vacuums, air purifiers, dishwashers, washing machines, and anything else you’d find inside the house. Her evaluations pull from independent lab data and her own experience running these machines through a real home, not a controlled showroom.
Tom Woody (Outdoor Power & Garage)
Tom is an HVAC technician based in Georgia who has spent the better part of 15 years tinkering with outdoor equipment as a weekend hobby. Lawn mowers, generators, leaf blowers, pressure washers, chainsaws — he’s owned or borrowed most of them at one point or another, and he knows the difference between a machine that holds up after two seasons and one that doesn’t. He writes the way he talks: direct, practical, and without much patience for specs that don’t translate to real use.
Sandy Kowalski (Garden & Plants)
Sandy is a retired middle school science teacher from Minnesota who has been gardening seriously for over 30 years. She runs a small community garden plot and has strong opinions about soil quality, irrigation systems, and which pruning shears are worth sharpening versus which ones you should just replace. She covers gardening tools, raised bed systems, composting equipment, indoor plants, and everything in between. Her approach is methodical — she keeps notes, tracks results season to season, and doesn’t recommend anything she hasn’t grown something with.
Marcus Webb (Pool & Spa)
Marcus spent 15 years as a pool and spa installation and maintenance technician in Florida before stepping back to write independently. He has seen every combination of pool chemistry problem, equipment failure, and bad purchase decision that homeowners make, and he writes about pool and spa products from that vantage point. He covers robotic pool cleaners, filtration systems, water treatment products, hot tubs, and pool accessories. If a product claim doesn’t hold up to what he’s seen in the field, he says so plainly.
Derek Calloway (Automotive & Car Care)
Derek is a former professional auto mechanic from Ohio who now works independently reviewing car care and garage products. He spent nearly a decade in a full-service shop before transitioning out, and he does most of his reviewing from his own garage. He covers car vacuums, detailing products, automotive tools, garage organization systems, and anything else that lives in or around a vehicle. He’s skeptical of marketing claims by default and tends to focus on durability and real-world usability over feature lists.
How We Approach Reviews
Each contributor brings their own evaluation framework to their category, but the underlying standard is the same across the site: recommendations have to be grounded in actual use or verified lab data, not brand relationships or affiliate incentives. Where independent testing data exists from sources like Vacuum Wars, TechGearLab, Rtings, or Consumer Reports, we use it and cite it. Where it doesn’t, we rely on the contributor’s direct experience and note that clearly.
We also try to be honest about the limits of what we know. If a product is discontinued, we say so. If a spec claim doesn’t hold up in real-world conditions, we flag it. If a product we recommended has been superseded by something meaningfully better, we update the article. Our goal is for these pages to be useful the day you read them, not just the day we wrote them.
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Contact
For questions, corrections, or product suggestions, use our contact page. We read everything, though response times vary.