Disclosure

How we make money

Straight answer to a fair question. Here is how SteadyCedar is funded, what that funding does and doesn't change about what we publish, and who we work with on the quote side.

We're an independent, advertising-supported publisher

That's the same business model used by most modern consumer-research sites. In plain English: nobody pays us a subscription, the content is free to read, and we cover the cost of researching and publishing by partnering with a company that connects homeowners with local gutter installers. When that partnership produces a connection, we earn a fee. The reader doesn't pay it; the installer's side of the marketplace does.

When we earn money

We earn money on specific events, not on page views. Concretely:

• When a reader submits a quote request through our partner network.
• When a local installer in that network follows up with the reader and books work.

If you read a guide and decide gutters aren't a priority this year, we earn nothing from your visit — and that's fine. If you read a guide, decide you'd rather call three local installers yourself, and never use our quote path, we still earn nothing, and that's also fine. The model only generates revenue when a reader actually wants to be connected with an installer.

What it doesn't change

Compensation may affect which quote paths we surface and where they appear, but does not influence our editorial recommendations or what we publish about pricing, gutter guards, or installer trade-offs. The price ranges on this site are the same whether you go through our quote partner, call a local installer cold, or decide to DIY a repair on a single section.

And your price does not change because of our partnership. The installer pays the network on the back end; the quote you receive is the quote the installer would have given you anyway.

Who we partner with

Our current quote partner is MyHomeQuote (MHQ) — a quote-network aggregator that connects homeowners with local gutter installers across the United States. We chose them because their network covers most of the country and because their request flow is short enough that a homeowner can finish it in a few minutes. MHQ does its own installer vetting on the network side — license checks, insurance verification, and screening for the basics — before an installer can receive a request. We want to be precise about that: MHQ does that vetting, not us. We don't independently audit each installer in their network, and we don't pretend to.

What we'd do differently if we could

Today we work with one quote partner. We'd prefer to surface multiple options side-by-side so readers can choose, and that's a near-term roadmap item. Until then, we point out alternatives — including DIY paths, calling three local installers yourself from BBB-rated names in your zip, or holding off entirely if the work can wait — wherever they help. If you've used a quote service you think we should evaluate, write to us. The fastest way for this page to read differently a year from now is more partners worth recommending.