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Editorial policy

Where a claim on this site has to come from before it is published, who is responsible for it, and what happens when it turns out to be wrong.

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Most of what this site publishes is about money you are about to spend and work you cannot see being done. That is a reasonable thing to be skeptical about, so this page sets out the rules the content is written under, in enough detail that you can check whether they are being followed rather than take our word for it.

The two pages that put these rules into practice are the cost methodology, which sets out where every price figure comes from, and the corrections ledger, which records what has been published here and later found to be wrong.

Documents in the source registry
67
Distinct publishers
38
Corrections on record
13

By kind: 28 primary sources32 official guidances7 secondary sources.

The standard

Rules the content is written under

Published so they are checkable. If you find a page that breaks one of these, that is worth telling us about.

  1. A claim is checked against the document that actually sets the rule

    Code, statute and licensing claims are checked against the primary text, not somebody's summary of it: the North Carolina General Statutes for licensing thresholds and lien rules, the North Carolina Residential Code for what a closed crawl space requires, the Office of the State Fire Marshal's own published interpretations for how those are applied, and the USDA soil series descriptions for what the ground under a Triangle house actually does. Every document the site relies on is catalogued in one file with its publisher, its identifier and the date it was last opened, and pages cite it from there rather than restating a figure from memory.

  2. Where only a secondary source exists, the page says so

    There is no public register of what crawl space work sells for, so every cost figure here comes from a published cost guide - an aggregator, an editorial site, or a contractor publishing its own prices. Those are not equivalent to a statute and the site does not present them as though they were: each is labeled with what kind of source it is, and published cost guides, cited and dated is the basis stated on every cost page.

  3. No number is published without a source and a date beside it

    Every price range on this site renders with the document it came from and the date somebody last opened that document to confirm the figure was still there. Where a source is national rather than North Carolina-specific, the citation says that too - a national figure presented as a local one is the most common way a cost page misleads without stating anything false.

  4. Nothing is invented to fill a gap

    This site publishes no reviews, no star ratings, no testimonials, no completed-job counts, no years-in-business, no team members and no awards, because it has none of those things to report. It will publish them when they are true and verifiable, and not before. A fabricated review is also illegal in the United States under the Federal Trade Commission's rule on consumer reviews.

  5. No credential is claimed that a reader cannot check

    No page on Raleigh Crawlspace Pros claims a license, insurance, bonding, a crew, a warranty or a number of years in business. Content about verifying a license or reading a quote is written so you can check whoever quotes your job against the state register yourself - not to stand in for that check.

  6. There is no named author, and that is deliberate

    Pages here are published by the organization rather than under a personal byline, and the structured data says the same thing. A name attached to an article that appears nowhere a reader can verify, belonging to nobody they can contact, is a trust signal manufactured rather than earned. If a named editor or reviewer is ever appointed, this page and the schema change together, and the name will belong to a real person who can be reached.

  7. An error is corrected in place and recorded permanently

    A factual, regulatory, pricing or sourcing error that reached a published page is fixed on that page and logged - with the previous wording quoted, the correction, and what a reader relying on the old version would have got wrong - in the public ledger at /corrections/. Nothing is quietly edited out of a past mistake, including the entries that make this site look bad. Anyone can report a suspected error, with or without a source of their own.

  8. Review dates move when something is actually re-checked

    A "last checked" date changes when somebody reopens the source and confirms the figure, and at no other time. It does not advance on a deploy. That is why several dates on this site are older than its most recent build: an out-of-date verification is honest, and one that updates itself makes every date here worthless.

Scope

What this site is not qualified to tell you

Worth stating plainly, because a page that reads authoritatively about a crawl space can easily be mistaken for an opinion about yours.

  • It cannot diagnose your crawl space. Nobody here has seen it. Every page stops at what a symptom usually means and who looks at it.
  • It is not legal advice. The statutes cited on the license and quote pages are quoted so you can read them yourself, not applied to your situation.
  • It is not a health assessment. Pages about mold describe what remediation involves and what it costs, not what any exposure means for you. That is a question for a doctor.
  • It does not vouch for any contractor. The license register is linked on every relevant page precisely so you can check for yourself.
  • It publishes no price you can hold anyone to. Only a written quote from somebody who has been under your house is a real number.

Coverage

Where the content comes from geographically

Everything written here is about the Raleigh-Durham area - 6 North Carolina counties, Wake, Durham, Orange, Johnston, Chatham, Franklin. City pages carry researched local detail about housing era, soil and drainage for that specific place. Where a claim is true of the Piedmont generally rather than of one town, it is written that way rather than dressed up as local knowledge, and a city with nothing specific worth saying does not get a page padded out to look like one.

Reporting a problem with something here

If a figure looks wrong, a code section has moved, or a page reads as though it is claiming something it should not, tell us. Write to hello@raleighcrawlpros.com. You do not need to bring a source; a specific page and a sentence is enough to start. Anything that turns out to be a real error is fixed and added to the corrections ledger, which was last reviewed on September 28, 2026.

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