About us
We read the estimates so you don't have to guess.
Project Price Point exists for one moment: when you're about to spend serious money on your home and have no idea what fair looks like. We turn contractor quotes and public pricing data into clear, itemized numbers you can carry into any negotiation.
Why we started
Home-improvement pricing is deliberately opaque. Homeowners get lump-sum quotes with no breakdown, no way to compare, and no sense of whether a number is reasonable or padded. Meanwhile most "cost guides" online are thin, out of date, or quietly written to sell you something.
We wanted the opposite: genuinely researched cost breakdowns, itemized like an estimate, updated on a schedule, and independent of who's selling the work. If we do our job, you walk into every quote already knowing the questions to ask and the range to expect.
How we work
Our editorial standards
We build ranges from real data
Every figure comes from contractor quotes, published industry pricing, or public datasets — cross-checked across regions and cited. We don't invent numbers to fill a page.
We date and update everything
Prices move. Each guide shows when it was last updated and is revisited on a schedule, so you're never budgeting off stale figures.
We separate research from revenue
Advertising and affiliate relationships never determine what a guide says, how we rate anything, or the order in which options appear.
We show our sources and our people
Guides carry named authors with real expertise, are reviewed by qualified professionals where the subject calls for it, and link the primary sources behind our numbers.
We correct mistakes in the open
When we get something wrong, we fix it and note the correction. Accuracy matters more than looking infallible.
The team
Who writes Project Price Point
Every guide is researched and written in-house by our editorial team, drawing on public pricing data, industry cost surveys and manufacturer documentation. We publish under a single editorial byline rather than individual names, and we update figures on a regular schedule as source data changes. If you have a question about how a specific number was reached, our Contact page reaches the desk directly.
How we make money
Plainly, so there's no confusion.
Project Price Point is free to read and supported by advertising. Some pages display ads, and we may earn a commission when readers use certain links — at no additional cost to you.
Our commitment: advertising and commissions never influence our cost research, our recommendations, or the order in which anything appears. The guide says what our research found, full stop.