How this site makes money
Two ways, both of which cost you nothing directly and both of which create an incentive you should know about before you trust a word on this site.
1. Referral fees when you ask for quotes
If you fill in a quote form and tick the consent box, your request goes to the contractor networks named on that page. They pay us a fee for the introduction. For basement and foundation work these fees are meaningful — the industry pays roughly $60–$75 per lead on Google’s own local services product, and an exclusive lead for a five-figure job is worth more than that. That is the honest reason this site exists.
2. Affiliate commission
Some outbound links to contractor networks are affiliate links, including through the FlexOffers network. If you click one and later transact, we may be paid. Your price does not change.
What that incentive would push us to do, and what we do instead
The incentive is to make you frightened, because frightened people fill in forms. It would be trivially easy: take the drainage class, write “your basement is at severe risk”, and put a phone number under it. Most sites in this category are owned by a contractor or a lead vendor and do a version of exactly that.
We do four things that cost us conversions on purpose:
- We state soil facts, never diagnoses. If your county is well drained, the page says the ground is probably not your problem — which means no lead.
- We publish that condensation is often the answer, and that a few-hundred-dollar dehumidifier can replace a $15,000 excavation.
- We label our own price model as a model, which makes it less persuasive than a fake precise number.
- We tell you to get the second quote in June rather than sign in March, during the leak.
What we are not
Not a contractor. Not a licensed engineer. Not an insurer or adjuster. We do not perform work, do not inspect, and have no financial relationship with any individual contractor who may contact you — only with the networks listed below.
| Partner | What they are |
|---|---|
| Groundworks | national foundation & basement repair network |
| Service Direct | contractor marketplace |
| Modernize | home improvement matching service |
| Networx | contractor matching service |
Required disclosure under the FTC Endorsement Guides, 16 CFR Part 255. We repeat it inline at every point where we ask you for anything, not just here.
Current partner list with change date · Methodology
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