Editorial standards

Sources

Every regulatory statement links a primary source: the Sarasota County Code of Ordinances, the City of Sarasota, Venice, North Port and Longboat Key portals, Charlotte County's permit pages, FEMA, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, the Florida Building Code and the American Concrete Institute. Where a page could only reach a secondary source, it says so and tells you what to verify.

Prices

A price on this site carries a date and a method. Until our own completed-job data is large enough to publish, ranges are compiled from published Sarasota-area sources and labeled as such. No range is presented as a quote. The Sarasota Concrete Cost Index, once live, publishes sample size, period and limitations with every release.

Measurements

Any figure described as measured (surface temperature, slip resistance, cure time) comes with the instrument, the conditions and the date on the data and methods page. Until a measurement exists, the page publishes the protocol and cites an applicable technical source instead of a number.

What is not allowed on these pages

• Invented addresses, insurance limits, warranties, years, project counts, ratings, reviews, awards or statistics.
• Claims about heat, slip, salt, flooding or hurricanes without a measurement or a technical source.
• Text, images, tables, tools or layouts copied from competitors or from any other site.
• Photo captions that name a place the photo was not taken.
• Dates that are not true. A "last reviewed" line means a person reread the page on that day.

Review and changes

Cost guides and permit pages are reviewed quarterly and after every hurricane season. A visible "last reviewed" line at the bottom of each page states the date and, when a page changes materially, a one-line changelog.

Corrections

If you find an error, email hello@sarasotaconcrete.com with the page URL. Corrections are made on the page and noted in its changelog.

What is checked before a page goes up

• The source is opened and read. A rule is cited from the code, the ordinance or the agency page itself, with the section number, never from another company's summary of it.
• Fees and phone numbers carry a date. A number that could not be confirmed on the office's own page is marked "verify" instead of being printed as fact.
• Prices say what they are. A planning range names the date it was read and where it came from, and no range is dressed up as a quote.
• Photos are captioned by what is visible. Material, pattern, drain, coping. A location is named only when it is documented.
• Someone who does the work reads it. A specification on these pages, a base depth, a joint spacing, a slope, is one we would put in a written scope.

A page that fails any of these waits until it passes. That is slower than publishing first and fixing later, and it is the only way a standard survives a busy season.