About CostAndPrice

CostAndPrice is a strictly informational consumer price guide: source-cited cost ranges built on a published formula. We start with home services, appliance repair first. No service, no hours, no booking. Just the numbers. Reviewed July 2026.

Who runs this

CostAndPrice is built and operated by a working appliance-repair professional: a Red Seal–endorsed appliance service technician with 20 years in the trades, holding Technical Safety BC gas certification (Gas-C). That means day-to-day knowledge of what these repairs involve and what they actually cost. The site itself sells nothing: no booking, no dispatch, no phone line. The only commercial links on the site are the disclosed partner links on three Canadian metro pages, and each one says so where it appears.

Editorial standards

Every price on this site is an Estimated range. We publish the localization method and every input series with its named source and vintage. The full source registry sits on the methodology page, alongside a downloadable per-metro index CSV. You will not find a "Verified" label here, or fake city-level precision, or prices currency-converted across borders.

Who reviews the numbers

Every English-language appliance page is reviewed by the site's operator, Ivan. He is a Red Seal–certified appliance service technician (Interprovincial cert #10-03535) with 20 years of experience in the trades. He also holds Technical Safety BC gas certification (Gas-C, lic #CGA010093408) and the ODS/halocarbon refrigerant certification (lic #BC23080) for sealed-system and gas-appliance work. We publish the name and the verifiable credential numbers, not a byline you have to take on trust. The numbers stand on named public sources, a published formula, and a certified technician's review. These credentials cover appliance repair only, which is why appliance repair is the first service we publish.

Scope of expertise

The owner's appliance credentials cover the appliance-repair vertical only. Any future vertical added to CostAndPrice will carry its own named expertise and sources before making expert claims. We do not extend one licence across unrelated categories.

Contact

Questions or corrections? See the contact page.