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Questions, feedback, corrections, and partnership inquiries are welcome. Use the form below and we will respond as soon as possible.
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Thank you for reaching out. We review every message personally and will respond within 3–5 business days. For urgent permit questions, your local building department is always the fastest resource.
What We Can Help With
- Content corrections — If you find information that is inaccurate or outdated, please tell us. Include your state, the page URL, and what specifically is incorrect.
- Missing jurisdictions — If your city or county has specific permit rules not reflected in our state guides, we welcome that information.
- General permit questions — We'll point you in the right direction, though for project-specific answers your local building department is always the authoritative source.
- Partnership and collaboration — Guest contributions, link corrections, and editorial partnerships.
This site provides general educational guidance. For project-specific permit decisions, contact your local building department directly — they are the authoritative source and the call is free.
What Happens After You Submit
Messages submitted through this form are delivered directly to our private email and reviewed individually — there's no automated reply system standing between your message and an actual person reading it. Most messages get a substantive response within three to five business days. Content correction reports tend to move faster, since verifying and fixing a specific factual claim is usually quicker than research-heavy inquiries.
If you've submitted a content correction, we'll typically let you know once we've verified it and made the update — or explain why we believe the existing content is accurate if our research doesn't support the change. Either way, you'll hear back.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Your email address is used only to respond to your specific message and is never published, sold, or added to a marketing list. See our Privacy Policy for full detail on how contact form data is handled.
For anything time-sensitive — an upcoming inspection, a deadline on a correction notice, a closing date on a home sale — your local building department will always be faster than this contact form, since they're the authoritative source and can usually answer immediately by phone. Use our building department finder guide to identify the right office for your address.
No, this site operates entirely through written correspondence via the form above. This lets us research and verify factual claims properly before responding, rather than giving an off-the-cuff answer over the phone that might not hold up.
The most useful corrections include four things: the exact page URL where you found the issue, the specific claim or figure you believe is wrong, your city and state (since permit rules are highly local and we need to know which jurisdiction your correction applies to), and ideally a link or citation to the source you're comparing against — a building department page, an adopted code section, or similar. Reports with this level of detail are usually the fastest for us to verify and act on.
Yes. We're continuing to expand both the state-by-state coverage and the topic guides on this site, and reader suggestions directly influence what we prioritize next. If there's a specific situation — a wall material, a regional condition, a state we haven't covered yet — that you had trouble finding clear information about elsewhere, that's exactly the kind of gap we want to know about.