Basement Waterproofing Des Moines IA (basementwaterproofingdesmoinesia.com) is a referral and advertising service for homeowners in Des Moines, IA and five nearby Iowa cities. This disclosure explains what the site does and how it is paid.
The site is not a contractor, plumber, electrician or seller of home improvements of any kind, and it is not any contractor's agent. The State of Iowa has given it no contractor registration and no plumbing license, and the state issues no license for waterproofing at all. When it comes to basement work, the site does not offer, solicit, sell or perform it. Nor does it arrange, schedule or coordinate it, bid on or quote it, inspect it, guarantee it, negotiate it or finance it. No deposit passes through it, and no homeowner signs a contract with it.
What it does is narrow. The estimate form passes your request to be contacted to one independent contractor. That contractor gets in touch, arranges anything that follows and is responsible for its own estimate and work. Whatever you agree to is between you and that business.
Contractors may pay the site a flat fee for advertising; for now that fee is waived under a free trial. It is never a share of a contract price, and it is never charged per request or per job. Homeowners never pay the site anything and never receive money, gifts, discounts or other rewards, and the site never rewards anyone for sending other customers its way.
An advertising fee buys no endorsement. The site never names, recommends or vouches for a contractor. Before you sign, look up the contractor's Iowa registration yourself with DIAL, ask for insurance certificates and recent customers, and get a written, itemized contract. Sump tie-ins, backwater valves and sewer-line repairs are plumbing, which in Iowa takes a state-licensed plumber and a plumbing permit.
The site does not handle insurance matters, sewer-backup reports or applications to any City program. The site stands apart from every public body it mentions: the City of Des Moines with its Public Works department, Permit and Development Center and Clean Water Program Office; the WRA; the Iowa DNR; DIAL and its Plumbing and Mechanical Systems Board; the Iowa Attorney General; the Iowa Insurance Division; the National Weather Service; and the cities of Windsor Heights, Polk City, Bondurant, Pleasant Hill and Norwalk, IA. Iowa law governs this disclosure.