What changed

This page records what changed on the site and in the guides, with the date. When a law, a support scheme or a deadline changes and we update a guide, we write here what was changed and why. If you find a mistake or something out of date, tell us through the contact page.

2 November 2026

First version of the site, with this content:

• 14 guides, all in Portuguese and English, with official sources read that day and a “What we could not confirm” section in each. Topics: aid after storm Kristin, home insurance and storms, building permit, 6% VAT, asbestos and fibre cement, insulation aid, roof tiles and climate, causes of leaks, roofs in condominiums, the first 48 hours after damage, pre-winter checklist, choosing a contractor, work warranty and building age by municipality.
• 12 town pages (Lisbon, Porto, Braga, Coimbra, Leiria, Setúbal, Faro, Viseu, Funchal, Évora, Guimarães and Aveiro). Each has that municipality’s INE figures, IPMA-measured climate, council rules and support, what is known about storm Kristin, and a list of what we could not confirm. We only made pages where there was something local, with a source, to say.
• Two tools inside the guides: a list of precautions for the climate of your area and a comparison of the age of the buildings in your municipality with the country (INE 2021 Census data).
• Legal and transparency pages: privacy policy, cookie policy, terms of use, methodology and about the project. Google Analytics is switched on only if you accept the analytics cookies.
• English version of the whole site, for people living in Portugal who do not read Portuguese.
• Plain-text copy of every page (add .md to the address) and a map for AI assistants at /llms.txt, with the access rules in robots.txt. The content may be read and cited by search and AI assistants, but not used to train models.
• AI-generated photographs as guide covers and on town pages, a different one on every page.

How we record changes

• A change that alters what the reader should do (a deadline, an amount, a rule, a support scheme that opened or closed) is recorded here, with the date.
• Corrections of typos and links are not recorded.
• Every guide shows the date of its last review at the top.