How we research, write and check what we publish

Who writes and who reviews

Pages are written by the RooferMatch editorial team, and each one is checked against the sources listed at its foot. We have not yet appointed a licensed technical reviewer, so no page claims to have been reviewed by one.

When a named, licensed reviewer is appointed, this section will show their name, license number, state, years in the trade and a link to the public registry entry, and each page they have read will say so. Until then, treat the sources at the bottom of each page as the authority and check anything that matters with your state's licensing board, your state's insurance department or your city.

Where the numbers come from

The rules every page follows

1. 1A fact we cannot source is left out. A fact we could only read through a summary stays in only if the sentence says so. We do not guess a code rule or a permit fee from memory.
2. 2Every cost figure is labelled an estimate and shows how it was built. A range is never presented as a quote.
3. 3Where people often repeat a rule that we cannot find in the law of the state a page covers, the page does not print it as a rule.
4. 4Pages say when the next step is a phone call to your insurer or your city and not to a roofing company, and they say so ahead of the form.
5. 5We do not publish reviews, rankings or "best of" lists. We have no basis for ranking companies we do not inspect.
6. 6Referral income never changes what a page recommends. Companies that pay for requests do not see pages before publication and cannot edit them.
7. 7Each page shows the date it was last reviewed and, where it quotes prices, the date those prices are as of.
8. 8Pages may be drafted with software help. A person reads each one, and every factual claim has to trace to a source we list, or it comes out.

How we estimate costs

How we estimate costs: the Estimated range on each cost table is a model, not a quote. It starts from published national cost ranges for the job (cost guides from third-party sites, which we have not verified and do not cite), multiplies them by Michigan's roofer median wage ratio to the US (BLS May 2025 data, read through O*NET OnLine, a U.S. Department of Labor site that republishes it) and adds a typical permit fee from the city schedules we could read where the work needs a permit. We have not collected quotes from roofing companies, and we found no Michigan roofing company that publishes a price we could count.

The wage rows come from the May 2025 data for roofers and, where a page uses one, say which area it covers. That is what roofing workers are paid, not what a homeowner is charged, and a wage alone is never a price. The storm counts follow the query described in the table above.

Ranges are reviewed whenever BLS data or a city's fee schedule changes, and each page shows its last review date. Your actual price depends on your roof, the work and the company you choose.

Corrections

If something on this site is wrong, tell us which page, which number or rule, and what you saw instead, with a link if you have one. We check it against the source. If you are right we fix the page, write the date of the fix at the foot of that page and add a line to the log below.

• Oct 19, 2026: Site launch. No corrections yet.

How the site is paid for

RooferMatch earns money when a roofing company, or a referral partner acting for one, receives a homeowner request from us. That is a conflict of interest, and we say so on every page. The rules above are how we deal with it: sources on every claim, no rankings, no paid placement, and pages that point you to your insurer or your city when that is the right first call. The full account is on how it works.