The editorial foundations
Show the work. Publish the funding. Log the corrections.
Authority is not a claim — it is a paper trail. Everything that lets you trust these guides lives here: how the research was done, what it was built from, what we have corrected, who runs it, and the limits of what we publish.
260
Buyer-research files
4,300+
Homeowner accounts
All 8
States & territories
$0
Paid placement
The system
Six places to check our working.
How
Methodology
How the corpus was built — clustering, regulation checks, price verification across all 8 states.
What
Source ledger
The source categories behind the research: Whirlpool, Reddit, ProductReview, forums, regulator summaries.
Fixes
Corrections log
Every error we have found and fixed, date-stamped. Proof the guides are maintained, not abandoned.
Who
About the publisher
Who runs NeedATrade, how it is funded, and why the editorial side stays independent of the operator side.
Limits
Disclaimer
What this site is and is not — research and education, not legal, financial or trade advice.
Privacy
Privacy policy
What we collect (almost nothing), what we do not, and how the independent funding model keeps it that way.
How this is funded
No tradie pays for placement here. Ever.
We earn on the supply side — printing letterbox flyers for trades who can answer all the questions properly — entirely separate from these homeowner-facing pages. The two never mix, which is the whole point of keeping the funding and the corrections out in the open.