Trust
How we make money
The short version is the disclosure you'll see next to every quote button on this site:
This is an editorial site first: every guide costs nothing to read, whether or not you ever request a quote. Only one action starts a quote request, the Get Quotes button, and it routes to an outside matching partner rather than to any specific remodeler on our compact list. That partner owes us a fee if your request turns into a job it can place; remodelers on our list owe us nothing, ever, for their spot, on a license-based list or a top-rated one. In most cities, listings are drawn from public license records, not sold placements; in a city with no license records to draw on, the list instead reflects Google's own ratings for that search, also never sold. Either way, the business a partner ultimately lines up may not be the one whose name was on the list you read.
Our only revenue is a referral fee from a matching partner, paid only when a Get Quotes request turns into work that partner can pursue. Nobody pays to appear on our compact contractor list, and nobody pays for a guide to mention their product or method favorably.
Where we name a specific manufacturer or product, like a membrane brand, it's because we could verify a claim on that company's own page, not because of a sponsorship.
The quote button
Pages with listings also carry a quote button. It opens a quote request run by our matching partners, not by the businesses listed on the page. When you ask for quotes through it, a partner may pay us. That is how we pay for running this site.
The partner decides which companies to match you with, so the companies that contact you may not be the ones listed on the page you came from. Before you hire anyone, check their license the same way you would check a listed business.
What it costs you
Using Shower Renovation Guide costs homeowners nothing. You don't pay us for listings, lookups or quote requests.
What money doesn't change
- Listings come from state license records or, on top-rated lists, from Google Maps ratings. No business pays to be listed, to be left off, or for its position.
- License listings are sorted alphabetically. Top-rated lists are ranked only by Google rating and review count.
- There are no paid placements today. If we add any, they will be marked Sponsored.
- Verify license links go only to the state's license registry, never to a partner.
How to tell the links apart
Quote buttons always sit in a box with the disclosure above, and they are marked as sponsored links in the page code (rel="sponsored"). Every other outbound link on the site goes to an official license record, a business's Google Maps listing, or a source we cite.