Why this page exists
This page describes how Diamond Steel Buildings is made. It is here so that you can decide how much weight to give anything else on the site.
Standards
The route every article on diamondsteelbuildings.com takes from idea to publication, and what we refuse to publish.
This page describes how Diamond Steel Buildings is made. It is here so that you can decide how much weight to give anything else on the site.
A draft goes through four hands worth of work. The writer separates what they know from what they assume. The assumptions are either checked against something nameable or deleted. What is left gets written up. Then a second person reads it looking only for overconfidence, which is the failure this subject invites most.
Published means published. We do not bump dates to look active, and an edit only changes the modified date when it changes what the article actually tells you to do.
We earn from some outbound links. That pays for hosting and research time, and it does not decide the verdict of any page.
If a partner asks us to remove a criticism, the answer is no, and the request itself may end up mentioned in a future article.
Bylines are real people with real archives attached. If you disagree with a piece, you can see what else the same person has written and judge accordingly.
Grant Sorensen, Structural estimator and buyer's guide writer. Grant spent over a decade pricing steel building jobs for a regional dealer before he started writing the numbers down for buyers instead of just for contractors. He explains a quote the way he would to a customer standing at his desk, line item by line item.
Dax Holloway, Metal building erector and site walker. Dax has bolted up kits on sites from frozen Montana ground to Georgia clay, and he still walks every job before he writes about it. He writes about kits and use cases the way he would explain a job to the crew standing next to him.
Faye Whitcombe, Permits and code compliance writer. Faye spent nine years reviewing building permit applications for a county office before she got tired of watching good projects stall over paperwork nobody explained clearly. She writes about permits and materials the way she wishes applicants had been told the first time.
We do not plan an editorial calendar. Articles appear when a question has come up often enough to be worth answering properly.
Write to [email protected] with the page address and what is wrong. Factual errors are fixed quickly. If the correction changes the conclusion of a piece, we add a short note at the foot of the page rather than quietly editing it.