Why this page exists
Anyone can claim to be careful. This page sets out what careful means at Diamond Steel Buildings in enough detail that you can check whether we keep to it.
Standards
The route every article on diamondsteelbuildings.com takes from idea to publication, and what we refuse to publish.
Anyone can claim to be careful. This page sets out what careful means at Diamond Steel Buildings in enough detail that you can check whether we keep to it.
The writer starts by getting everything down, then goes back and marks anything they could not defend if pushed. Those marks are resolved one by one, against a source or from experience, and whatever cannot be resolved is deleted rather than softened. A second reader then goes looking only for false certainty.
The date you see is real. A tidy up of wording leaves it alone; only a change to what the piece recommends moves the modified date, along with a note saying so.
A few of the links here make us money. That covers the running costs and stops well short of buying a kinder paragraph around them.
Requests to soften a verdict are declined, and we keep them on file. More than one has become the subject of its own paragraph later.
We attach a person to every article on purpose. It means a mistake costs the writer something, which is the strongest quality control a site this size has.
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.