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Corrections policy
How to tell us we got something wrong, and what we do next.
Written by HYRE HVAC Research Desk Primary-source research, data analysis and fact checking
The short version
Our corrections policy is simple: if a fact on HyreHVAC is wrong, email hello@hyrehvac.com with the page and the source that shows the error. We check it against the primary source, fix the page if we were wrong, and note the change and its date on the page. We do not quietly rewrite a figure.
How do you report an error?
Email hello@hyrehvac.com with the page address, the sentence or figure you think is wrong, and the source that shows it. A primary source helps most: a regulation, a government dataset, a standard or a manufacturer document.
You do not need to be an HVAC professional. Homeowners spot dated rebates and dead links as often as anyone.
What happens after you report it?
Not against another website.
The correct figure, with its source and the date we checked it.
What changed and when, so a returning reader can see it.
Shared figures live in one data file wherever possible, so a fix carries through.
We reply with the source we relied on.
What counts as a correction?
| Type | What we do |
|---|---|
| Factual error (wrong figure, rule, date or name) | Fix it and note the correction on the page |
| Outdated fact (a program closed, a rule changed) | Update it, give the new checked date, and note what changed |
| Broken or moved source link | Replace the link; if the source is gone, say so or remove the claim |
| Typo or wording that does not change meaning | Fix it without a note |
What this policy does not cover
We do not change a page because a business would prefer different wording. We do not publish prices until they meet our cost methodology. For how we choose and check sources in the first place, see our editorial policy. HyreHVAC is a publisher and does not install, repair or inspect equipment.
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Written and audited by
HYRE HVAC Research Desk
Primary-source research, data analysis and fact checking
We are a research desk, not a sales floor. We read the federal microdata file, the statute or the manufacturer data sheet ourselves, and we publish the figure with the document it came from and the date we retrieved it.
Where a number cannot be traced to a primary source, we publish the shorter page and say what we could not verify.
The counts below are generated from the published pages themselves, last counted October 26, 2026, and they are what we have actually published rather than what we intend to.
- 18
- studies published
- 15
- federal sources read and cited
- 15
- studies published with their full dataset as CSV
- 51
- jurisdictions reproduced against EIA’s own tables
How this desk works
- Primary sources only. Federal data comes from the agency that collects it, in the file that agency publishes. We do not cite an article that cites a source; we download the source and compute the figure ourselves.
- We validate against the agency before we publish. First, we use each federal microdata file to reproduce the agency’s own published tables. Our cooling research reproduces EIA’s state estimates and standard errors for all 51 jurisdictions. That check caught a variance formula that was off by a factor of four.
- Every estimate carries its uncertainty. These are survey figures, not counts. Standard errors are computed from the replicate weights the federal file supplies and printed beside the estimate. An estimate too imprecise to publish is reported as such rather than printed.
- Nothing is typed by hand. Prose, tables and charts all read from one dataset built by script, so a number in a sentence and the same number in the table below it cannot disagree.
- We publish the data, not just the conclusion. 15 of our 18 studies offer the full computed table as a CSV download on the page, so you can check the analysis or disagree with it. A study without a row-level dataset gets no download link and claims none in its structured data.
- We correct in public. Where we have published a figure wrongly we fix the figure, rewrite any analysis that rested on it rather than patching the number underneath it, and leave a dated correction note on the page.
- We do not install or sell HVAC equipment, and we take no payment for placement, ranking or a favorable mention. Nobody buys a position on this site.
Data as of Sources checked October 26, 2026. Authorship on this site is organizational: the analysis belongs to the desk rather than to a named individual, and we do not publish credentials we do not hold. Our editorial policy sets out how we source, date and correct what we publish.
HyreHVAC is a publisher. We do not install, repair or inspect HVAC equipment and hold no contractor licence. Nothing here replaces an on-site diagnosis by a licensed contractor. Sources are cited with the date they were checked.