Editorial standards
How Well & Septic Guide builds homeowner planning guides
The site is built around practical homeowner decisions: what to ask, what to document, what records to keep, and when to involve local professionals or official agencies.
Editorial rules
- Every guide must stay educational and administrative.
- Every guide should point readers toward records, local confirmation, and qualified help.
- No guide promises approval, safety, compliance, repair success, or legal outcomes.
- Pages are updated in batches using QA checks for internal-brand leakage, unsafe claims, and accidental payment/form/analytics activation.
Preferred source types
- Official local/state/federal agency pages when relevant.
- University extension or public-interest education resources.
- Written contractor, inspector, agency, or professional records specific to the homeowner's property.
- Homeowner-maintained logs, photos, receipts, approvals, and change records.