# About — who publishes this

URL: https://floorcostestimator.com/about
Last updated: 2026-08-19
License: CC BY 4.0

Published by a materials-only flooring retailer in the United States. It sells flooring
materials; it does not sell, employ or arrange installation. Its trading name is not published on
this site.

## The conflict, stated

A seller-owned price checker is a conflict of interest. Three things constrain it: the operator's price
appears as one observation among others with no ranking preference; the comparison that can
embarrass it is computed on every publish and printed on the methodology page (withheld on this release: 3 of 7 tracked sellers unreadable, and the missing ones are the price-restricted ones); and the
underlying data is downloadable so the claim can be checked.

## What can and cannot be priced

2121 part numbers carried by two or more sellers: 839 priced and published (40%), 1004 outside the priced categories (47%), 278 no usable carton size, or sellers disagreed about it (13%). Part numbers carried by a single seller are absent from this dataset
entirely rather than priced from one listing. Separately, against
a different denominator: the two ends of the published band rest on 1 and
2 of 1704 observations, so $16.79 is a
single listing rather than a market.

## What this site will not do

- Ask for an email, phone number or address to show a result.
- Store or transmit what you type; the tool runs in the browser and only the band a figure falls in is counted.
- Publish a price it did not observe, including installation labor.
- Promise a price, quote a job, or claim stock availability.
- Require navigation anywhere as a condition of seeing the answer.

## What is counted when you use this

Usage is measured in aggregate and the figures a reader types are not part of it. Area and quoted
price are converted to bands in the browser — a 1,240 sq ft job is recorded as 1000-1999, a $2.65
quote as 2.50-2.99 — and the raw numbers are never sent. Recorded: that the tool was opened, which
size and price bands were entered, which verdict was shown and on data how many days old, whether
the methodology page was read, and which data file was downloaded. Not collected: the product
searched for, the quote or the area as figures, any account, any identity.

## Data reuse

JSON and CSV at https://floorcostestimator.com/data/, CC BY 4.0, citation string on the methodology page. Automated agents
are welcome.