Publisher information
Methodology
The guide compares published evidence without turning absence into a negative claim or marketing into independent verification.
Provider inclusion
A provider is included when a dated audit finds a live first-party site, an explicit Utah service area, at least one covered exterior-cleaning service, and a sufficiently clear business identity. Generic lead directories and unresolvable duplicates are excluded. The audit is not a guarantee of completeness.
Evidence labels
Provider-stated facts remain attributed. Official data is identified by geography and vintage. Not publicly specified means the reviewed sources did not answer the question; it does not mean the provider lacks the capability.
Ratings
Google, Yelp, and BBB values may be recorded only through a manual, confident business match. A record must include source URL and access date. No review text is copied, no rating API is used, and no rating affects the default alphabetical order.
Local data
Legal place boundaries come from UGRC and Census sources. Weather context uses the nearest NASA POWER 2001–2020 regional climatology grid point and is labeled as planning context, not a station, parcel, or live forecast. ACS facts appear only when collected from their named geography. Water hardness is not inferred from a city name: users are directed to the serving utility report or a property test, and TDS is never relabeled as hardness.
Cost model
Benchmarks, minimums, and multipliers are versioned and visible. Editorial assumptions are explicitly marked. The tool applies no unsupported travel or location adjustment and is never a contractor bid.
Corrections and refreshes
Provider discovery, local-data enrichment, rating snapshots, and provider-post collection are reviewed repository changes. Material edits update the review date and validation suite.