Editorial Policy

Everything we publish exists to help homeowners plan renovation budgets with confidence. This page explains how our content is produced and reviewed, and the standards we hold ourselves to. We would rather publish fewer pages we trust than many we do not.

Our editorial workflow

Each guide and calculator moves through the following stages before it goes live:

• Idea — we identify a question homeowners are actually asking.
• Research — we gather information from relevant materials, product listings, and documented cost data.
• Draft — a writer produces the content and defines any calculator formula and assumptions.
• Fact-check — claims, formulas, and figures are checked for accuracy and internal consistency.
• Price verification — default prices are reviewed, dated, and labeled according to our pricing methodology.
• SEO review — we confirm the page answers the reader’s intent clearly, without compromising accuracy for ranking.
• Approved — a reviewer signs off that the content meets our standards.
• Published — the page is made indexable and available to readers.

Drafts are noindex until verified

Content that has not completed this workflow is treated as a draft. Drafts are marked noindex and are not intended for public consumption or search indexing until they have been fact-checked, price-verified, and approved. A page becomes indexable only after it is genuinely ready.

How we handle corrections

We make mistakes, and when we do, we fix them. If you report an error — or we find one ourselves — we investigate, correct the content, and update the relevant dates. For substantive corrections that change a figure or conclusion, we note what changed. You can report an issue through our contact page.

Honesty about review and credentials

We hold two firm rules:

• We never mark content as “professionally reviewed,” “expert reviewed,” or “medically/legally/engineering reviewed” unless a qualified person with the relevant credentials actually reviewed it.
• We do not fabricate credentials, author expertise, review badges, citations, or statistics. If we present a national average or a cited figure, it comes from a real, identifiable basis — not an invented one.

Where we rely on editable educational assumptions rather than verified data, we say so plainly. Transparency is the whole point.