What this desk is
StatGarden is published by one person rather than a newsroom. The desks are editorial identities used to show which standards a page was built to, not pen names for staff writers: no desk is a person, and none of them claims that a qualified professional has reviewed an individual page.
What a desk does say is how its pages are made, and that is a claim you can check: open any calculator it covers and the formula is printed on the page, the worked examples are generated by running that calculator rather than typed in by hand, and every rate or price is a field you set rather than a figure baked in by whoever wrote it.
How these pages are built
- Quantity pages carry a visible waste allowance rather than burying one, because the difference between the area of a wall and the amount of material to order is the part people get caught by.
- Prices are inputs. The pages work out what a job needs, and what it costs is whatever your supplier charges today.
- Pet pages stay on sizing, feeding and age conversion, and send anything clinical to a vet.
What this desk does not claim
Anything structural, electrical or plumbed should be confirmed against local regulations and, where it applies, by a licensed trade.