Michael Thompson
Senior Home Improvement ReviewerTwenty years on and around home improvement work. Reads our guides for the things that are technically true and practically wrong.
Michael is the last read before a technical guide publishes. Twenty years around home improvement work gives him the specific instinct this job needs: spotting the sentence that is technically accurate and would still get a homeowner into trouble — the material that performs beautifully on a 6:12 pitch and fails on a 3:12, the fix that is fine everywhere except a freeze-thaw climate.
He reviews for sequencing and safety as much as for fact. A guide that tells you the right thing to do in the wrong order is still a guide that costs you money, and a repair described without the condition that makes it a roofer's job rather than a homeowner's is worse than no description at all.
Where a claim cannot be supported he cuts it rather than softening it. A number of sections on this site are visibly shorter than the competition's for exactly that reason.
What this profile does not claim
Michael is a real member of the HomeMatchup team and the role and experience above are accurate. You will notice what is missing: no licence numbers, no certifications, no former employers, no awards.
That is deliberate. We ask every contractor in our network to prove their credentials at the source before we will introduce them to you, and it would be indefensible to decorate our own profiles with claims you have no way to check. Where a team member holds a verifiable public credential, it will appear here with a way to look it up — and not before. Read the editorial standards, including the correction we published when this site failed that test.
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