Corrections
This is the permanent record of things this site published that were wrong. Each entry gives the wording as it stood, what it says now, why the original was wrong, and what a reader who relied on it would have got wrong. Nothing is removed from this page.
A publisher that fixes its mistakes quietly looks exactly like one that has never made any. Both read clean. The difference only shows when a reader catches something and finds no evidence that anything is ever corrected — and at that point every other page becomes suspect too. So this page exists, it is dated, and it stays.
Corrections to this site’s own cost data — its provenance, its internal consistency, or how it is labeled — are counted separately when they happen. Those are the ones a business has the most reason to bury, which is precisely why they decide whether the rest of this page means anything.
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Send us the page URL and the information you believe should be reviewed. A source is enormously helpful but not required — “this doesn't match what my inspector told me” is a perfectly good reason for us to go and check.
Report a possible error Uses the same contact form as everything else. Please include the page address and the specific figure or statement.
- What happens next. We check it against a primary source. If it is wrong, the page is fixed and an entry is added here with the date.
- If we were right. We will say so, and where the disagreement is genuinely unsettled, we would rather narrow the claim on the page than defend a confident version of it, and that narrowing is recorded here too.
- Disputes about work at your home. This page records errors in what this site published. A dispute about work done at your home goes to the contractor who did it, and if it is not resolved, to the recourse Washington L&I and the contractor’s bond provide; the contractor verification guide sets out the steps and deadlines. We do want to know about it too.
What goes on this page, and what does not
This is a corrections ledger, not a changelog. A ledger padded with typo fixes and CSS tweaks hides the entries that matter, so the standard is published here rather than asserted.
Recorded here
- Factual errors — a statement about the world that was wrong.
- Incorrect statements of what a code, agency or licensing body requires.
- Published price or cost-model figures that were wrong, or that disagreed with each other across this site.
- Sourcing failures — a citation to a superseded document, or a claim about where information came from that the evidence did not support.
- Material methodology changes, including changes to how a figure is classified even when the figure itself did not move.
- Material omissions, where leaving something out made a published recommendation misleading.
Not recorded here
- Typos, grammar and wording changes that do not alter meaning.
- Design, layout, styling and image changes.
- New pages, new sections and internal link changes.
- Code refactors and build tooling.
- Routine updates that add information without contradicting anything previously published.
How far back this goes. The ledger runs from this site’s first publication. Corrections made while pages were still drafts are not included: nothing had been published, so nobody could have relied on it. No correction has been recorded yet.
The ledger
No corrections have been recorded. When one is, it appears here, newest first, with a stable link so it can be cited directly.
Other records this site keeps
A correction is one kind of change. Two others are tracked separately because they are not errors — a price that moves with the market and a code edition that advances are both normal, and recording them as corrections would dilute this page.
- Pricing revision history. Every change to the published cost ranges and to how they are produced. If you cited a figure, this is where you check whether it has moved.
- The Washington crawl space code page. What the code in force requires under a house and where the proposed next edition stands, with the date the sources were last checked. A proposal is not adopted code, and the page says so.
- The data section. Every published dataset carries the basis it rests on, its review date, and what it explicitly is not — including a published list of the datasets that are not published, and why.
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