Are these terms final legal terms?
They are plain-language terms that set out what you can expect from the site and what stays your responsibility.
Terms
Terms of Use
These terms explain that the site provides educational crawl space information, planning tools, and contact pathways, not professional inspection, legal, medical, engineering, or contractor services.
Policy
Educational use
The site is designed to help homeowners organize decisions.
Articles explain common crawl space symptoms and repair options.
Cost guides provide planning ranges, not fixed prices.
Tools should be treated as estimates based on entered assumptions.
Local pages are informational and do not guarantee service availability.
Source links may change or become unavailable over time.
Policy
Limits of responsibility
Homeowners remain responsible for hiring, safety, and project decisions.
Verify contractor credentials, permits, insurance, references, and scope.
Confirm code and permit requirements with local officials.
Use qualified professionals for structural, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, mold, or health concerns.
Do not enter unsafe crawl spaces based only on website content.
Do not rely on any cost range as a guaranteed quote.
Policy
Open data
Some datasets compiled for this site are published for reuse under a Creative Commons licence.
Datasets we mark as open data — currently the crawl space vent climate dataset (CSV) on the crawl space vents open-or-closed tool — are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
You may copy, redistribute, adapt, and build on them for any purpose, including commercially, if you credit CrawlSpace Fixes with a link to the page the data came from and say if you changed it.
The CC BY 4.0 licence covers our compilation and derived values only. Underlying government inputs, such as NOAA climate normals and Census geography, are US-government public domain.
Open datasets are model estimates provided as is, without warranty. The rest of the site's text, images, and tools are not covered by this licence.
Related trust pages
Trust and safety references
These pages work together to explain editorial standards, safety boundaries, privacy expectations, and homeowner protections.
FAQs
Common questions
Short answers about how this site sets expectations and boundaries.
Can I rely on a calculator result as a quote?
No. Calculators and guides are planning tools. A real quote requires site-specific review by a contractor or qualified professional.
Sources
References and review date
These sources inform the site's privacy, disclosure, safety, mold, and permit boundaries.