Plainly
Where the money comes from.
You are reading a site with one phone number on it. It is fair to ask who benefits when you dial it.
This site carries advertising. When a call placed through the number connects and runs long enough to be a real conversation, the site earns an advertising fee. Nothing is added to what you pay a contractor, and nothing is charged to you for reading or for calling.
There is no membership here, no form sold on to several companies, and no second number that goes somewhere else. The rest of the arrangement — that contractors are independent, that this site does not stand behind their work, and that checking a licence is yours to do — is set out at the foot of every page.
What that changes
It means this site has an interest in your calling, and you should read it knowing that. The honest way to handle such an interest is not to promise it has no effect — anyone can promise that — but to make the effect checkable.
So: every number on these pages comes from a public source you can open yourself. Flood zone shares and insurance take-up come from FEMA’s own published data. Humidity and frost come from NOAA and PRISM climate normals. The ten-square-foot line and the 24-to-48-hour window come from EPA. The position on testing comes from CDC. Where a policy clause is described, the standard form is named so you can compare it with your own.
What we will not publish, even though it would pay
Reviews and testimonials. We have not done any work, so we have no customers to quote. Invented ones are the oldest trick in this trade and we will not run them.
Prices. Nobody can price a wet house without reading moisture in it. A number here would be a guess dressed as information, and it would anchor you before anyone had looked.
Response times. We do not dispatch anyone, so we cannot promise when they arrive. The industry aims at a callback within the hour and a crew on site within four; that is what you may reasonably expect from a contractor, not a promise from us.
Descriptions of the contractor. This site does not describe anyone as checked, approved or covered, because it does not verify any of that and a claim we cannot stand behind is worth less than no claim at all. Check the licence yourself — every state publishes a searchable register, and it takes a minute.
If you would rather not use the number at all, the pages still work: the measurements, the policy wording and the licence registers are the useful part, and they cost you nothing to read and nothing to check.