Homes

Plan a whole place, not just one wall. A WireSketch Home is a container for rooms (projects) that share one address, one electrical region, and one or more circuit panels. Free for everyone.

Why Homes exist

Before Homes, every WireSketch project was a loose island. Plan the bathroom, plan the kitchen, plan the bedroom — three separate projects with three independent region pickers, three independent panel sketches, no way to see them as one renovation.

For a single-room job that’s fine. For a renovation across an apartment, a house extension, or a new build, you need the grouping — and you need the consistency that a physical dwelling sits in one country with one electrical code.

Create a Home

Tap the “+” on the Projects list, choose New Home. Pick one of five types:

• House — detached single-family dwelling
• Flat — single unit within a multi-unit building (UK-style)
• Apartment — rental unit, condo, owner-occupied apartment
• Garage — standalone workshop, detached garage, accessory building
• Commercial — office fit-out, retail space, light-industrial unit

Set the address. Tap “Use my location” and the GPS-derived country sets the electrical region automatically (DIN 18015 / BS 7671 / NEC base / AS‑NZS 3000), or pick the region manually.

One Home, one electrical code

The big invariant: every project inside a Home shares its region. A German flat and a UK holiday rental stay separate because they’re separate Homes — not because you have to remember which region you set for which project.

The constraint is enforced two ways:

• When you attach a loose project to a Home, the picker only shows projects matching the Home’s region.
• When you create a new project from inside a Home, the region picker is locked — replaced with a read-only chip showing the Home’s electrical code.

Editing a Home’s region after the fact is blocked when attached projects use the old region. The app shows you which projects need to move out (or have their own region changed) before the Home’s region can be updated.

Add rooms (projects)

From the Home detail screen, tap “+ Add Project” to create a new room directly inside the Home. Or tap “+ Add Existing” to attach a project you already had loose, filtered to matches.

Each room/project has a space name (e.g. “Kitchen,” “Main bathroom,” “Living/dining”) plus the full project workspace: wall photo, fixtures, safety zones, cable recommendations, export.

Circuit Panels at the Home level

A Home has one or more panels. For a small flat, one panel covers everything. For a house with a separate garage sub-panel, add two. For a 3-story townhouse with main + addition sub-panel, add two. Assign each room/project to its appropriate panel from the project’s editor.

The Home’s panel summary shows live totals per panel: how many rooms, how many fixtures, expected load. Tap a panel to see the breaker list (Pro — the Circuit Panel feature itself is a Pro unlock).

Cross-region projects

Loose projects (no Home attached) keep working as before. They have their own region. You can plan a one-off garden lighting circuit as a loose project, plan a friend’s kitchen as another loose project, and a Home isn’t imposed. Homes are opt-in; the rest of the app works fine without them.

Migration from pre-1.8

If you upgraded from a pre-1.8 install and had projects with mixed regions inside one Home, a one-time migration on first launch automatically detaches any project whose region doesn’t match its Home’s region. The detached projects become loose — nothing is deleted — and you can re-attach them after fixing the region, or move them to a Home that matches.