Policy
Editorial standards
Placiva content is written to help you prepare better questions, not to replace qualified professional judgment.
These standards explain what you should expect from Placiva pages, tools, provider labels, and corrections.
What each useful page should do
- Give you a practical next step, not just a broad description.
- Separate planning ranges from real quotes.
- Name the details that may change scope, cost, timing, or provider fit.
- Point you toward local verification when the answer depends on a license, permit, code rule, medical need, or home inspection.
Sources and dates
Cost ranges, standards, technical rules, and safety claims should rely on public sources where possible. A source should be checked close to the page review date when the claim can change over time.
A page may use planning assumptions when a true quote depends on the home, but those assumptions should be labeled as planning assumptions rather than facts about your project.
- Public agencies and standards bodies are preferred for rules, dimensions, safety concepts, and public programs.
- Known remodel, home service, and product sources may help frame cost ranges, but they do not replace a provider quote.
- Old, vague, or unsupported claims should be revised, qualified, or removed.
Authors and review
Pages are maintained by the Placiva Editorial Team unless a different author is shown. Placiva will not invent fake inspectors, fake medical reviewers, fake testimonials, or fake project photos.
A reviewed date means the page was checked for usefulness, source fit, and obvious outdated claims. It does not mean a professional inspected your home or approved your project.
Provider and sponsor labels
Provider information can come from public sources, providers, sponsors, or future verification steps. Those categories should be kept separate so you can tell what you are looking at.
Sponsored placement is advertising or paid visibility. It must not be written as proof that a provider is preferred, safest, licensed, insured, verified, or recommended for your home.
Images, diagrams, and generated visuals
- Diagrams may explain measurements, routes, rooms, or quote-prep concepts.
- Generated or illustrative images should not imply real customers, real completed projects, field inspection, or promised results.
- If an image is needed to verify a specific product, provider, or project condition, an illustrative image is not enough.
What Placiva will not publish as fact
- Medical advice for a specific person.
- Legal, engineering, code, or permit approval for a specific home.
- Provider quality claims that Placiva has not documented.
- Promised pricing, promised lead volume, promised provider response, or promised project outcome.
- Testimonials, reviews, or case studies that are not real and permissioned.
How you can challenge a page
If you find an outdated claim, unclear source, confusing provider label, accessibility problem, or privacy issue, use the correction policy or contact page. Include the URL and the exact claim or label you want reviewed.