Editorial Policy
This is the standard the content on this site is held to: where a claim has to come from, who is responsible for it, how it gets fixed when it's wrong, and the honest current answer to who, specifically, wrote and reviewed it.
The standard
A claim needs a primary source before it is published
Factual, regulatory, and code statements are checked against the primary document, not a secondary summary of it: the Washington State Residential Code as adopted in WAC 51-51 for code requirements, the utilities' own rebate pages (Puget Sound Energy, Snohomish County PUD, Seattle City Light) for rebate figures, NOAA climate normals for weather and rainfall, and Washington L&I and the Revised Code of Washington for contractor registration, bond, and insurance figures. Every source actually used on this site is catalogued in one file with its publisher, its document, and the date it was last checked, and pages cite it from there rather than restating a figure from memory.
Cost figures are labeled by what they actually are
Every price range on this site is a modeled editorial estimate, not a collected quote or a closed transaction. That is stated on every page that shows a price, not just here, and it is stated because it is currently true: Seattle Crawlspace Pros holds no collected quote or transaction data as of this review, so there is no real quote data to draw on yet. The full standard, including what would have to be true before a figure could be called an observed range instead, is at /cost/methodology/.
No credential claim the site cannot back
Seattle Crawlspace Pros is operated by H. Mae LLC. No page claims a licence number, bonding, insurance, crews, years in business, project counts, reviews or warranties for the brand, and none will without a record to back it. Content about verifying a contractor's license, bond, or insurance is written so the reader can check whoever does the work before signing, not to vouch for this site's own credentials.
An error gets corrected in place and recorded permanently
A factual, regulatory, pricing, or sourcing error that made it onto a published page is fixed on that page and logged - with the previous wording, the correction, the reason, and the source that settled it - in the public corrections ledger at /corrections/. Nothing is quietly edited out of a past mistake. Anyone can report a suspected error from that page's contact link, with or without a source of their own.
Review dates are real, not stamped on every rebuild
A page's "last reviewed" or "last checked" date changes when its content is actually re-verified against its sources, not automatically on every deploy. Where a figure is time-sensitive - utility rebates, sales tax rates, code editions, bond and insurance minimums - the page names the date it was checked and, where one is set, the date it's next due for another look.
Where the rest of this is enforced
- The corrections ledger. Every factual, regulatory, pricing, and sourcing error this site has published and fixed, dated and permanent.
- Cost methodology. How every price range is built, what it excludes, and what would have to change before a range could be called observed rather than modeled.
- Verifying a contractor. How to check any contractor's Washington L&I registration before you sign.
- About this site. What the site covers, what to expect from an inspection request, and the primary sources its guides are checked against.
Found something that doesn't meet this standard?
Tell us which page and what you believe is wrong. A source is helpful but not required. If it's wrong, it gets fixed and logged in the corrections ledger with the date.
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