Contractor records
Remodeling contractor database: license records in seven states
What we hold, state by state, measured September 5, 2026: where each record came from, what it proves, and what it does not.
Written by HyreRemodel Research Desk Primary-source research and fact checking
What this is
This remodeling contractor database holds 23,756 remodeling companies and 22,183 license records from seven states: Florida, Arizona, California, Nevada, Texas, Utah and North Carolina. Each record was read from the issuing board or city register, with a source link and date.
It is not a national directory and has no search box. Texas records come from two cities, and North Carolina’s 149 are a partial pull. To check a contractor, use the board’s own lookup.
Read this before the table
Seven states. Forty-three states, the District of Columbia and the territories are not in these records, so nothing here supports a national claim.
Texas is two cities. Its 955 records are 805 San Antonio and 150 El Paso registrations. The state licenses no residential general contractor, so these are not comparable with a California CSLB license.
North Carolina is partial. Its 149 records come from a small search the board rate-limits, and G.S. 87-1 requires a state license only at $40,000 or more. Smaller jobs are outside the board by law.
Three states dominate. Florida, Arizona and California hold 16,882 records, 76.1% of the total.
Empty is not clean. Discipline is retrieved only for Utah (32 records). An empty field elsewhere means we have not retrieved it. Absence of a record is not a finding about the company.
No founding-year census. A founding year is filled in for 123 of 23,756 companies, so we publish none.
License records by state, measured September 5, 2026
The counts below are license records, not unique firms and not every remodeler who advertises in the state. One company can hold several licenses, and a license that allows remodeling does not prove the firm sells it.
| State | Records | Share | What we hold | Issuing authority | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7,130 | 32.1% | State license | Florida DBPR, Construction Industry Licensing Board | Statewide board records, pulled county by county. The class names (CGC, CBC, CRC) do not say remodeling. |
| Arizona | 4,932 | 22.2% | State license | Arizona Registrar of Contractors (ROC) | Statewide board records, split by city where a class hit the search limit. Some classes (B-3, R-61, R-62) name remodeling; the general classes do not. |
| California | 4,820 | 21.7% | State license | California Contractors State License Board (CSLB) | Found by business name, because CSLB has no class search. A Class B license allows the work; it does not show the firm sells remodeling. |
| Nevada | 3,494 | 15.8% | State license | Nevada State Contractors Board (NSCB) | Every B and C-3 license on the board’s listing, Nevada addresses only. B-7 names remodeling; B and B-2 do not. |
| Texas | 955 | 4.3% | City registration, not a state license | City of San Antonio (805) and City of El Paso (150) | Two cities only. Texas licenses no residential general contractor. Not a Texas-wide list. |
| Utah | 703 | 3.2% | State license | Utah Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL) | Found by business name, because DOPL has no class filter. The only state where we retrieved discipline (32 records). A minimum count. |
| North Carolina | 149 | 0.7% | State license, partial pull | North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors (NCLBGC) | 149 records from a small, capped search, not the full roster. The license is required only at $40,000 or more (G.S. 87-1). |
Our count of license files on disk, measured September 5, 2026 (22,183 records under data/remodeling-data/licenses/). The bars repeat the counts: a longer bar means more records retrieved, not better contractors and not a stricter board.
The two Texas city registers (955 records) do not add up to a state license, and they do not cover Houston, Dallas, Austin or any other Texas city. San Antonio’s 805 registrations sit in the license records only; the 150 Texas company records are the El Paso firms.
How a record gets in
Every record was read from the issuing authority’s public register: a state license file or a city contractor registration, not a Google listing, review site or paid directory. Each stores the license number, class, status as the board printed it, the authority, a source link and the retrieval date.
Retrieval happened on three days: 11,900 records on August 30, 2026, 9,721 on August 29, and 562 on August 16. September 5, 2026 is when we counted the files, not when each board last changed a record.
We kept fewer records than the boards returned. Florida’s, Arizona’s, California’s and Nevada’s searches all produced more rows than we included. A general contractor who builds hospitals and has never remodeled a kitchen can appear in a board search and still be left out of our records.
Each board’s search has limits. Florida has no statewide query, so we went county by county. Arizona caps a class search near a thousand rows, so large classes were split by city.
North Carolina stops at about 300 rows. California has no class search and Utah no class filter. Those limits are why North Carolina is small and California and Utah are minimum counts.
License status on the day we checked
| Status | Records | Share | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active | 21,956 | 99.0% | The board or city showed the credential as current on the retrieval date. |
| Inactive | 183 | 0.8% | The board showed it as inactive. Inactive is not revoked. |
| Suspended | 35 | 0.2% | The board showed a suspension. In this snapshot all are Arizona. Not an enforcement count for the other six states. |
| Revoked | 9 | <0.1% | The board showed a revocation. All are Arizona in this snapshot, with the same limit. |
The four statuses add up to 22,183. Our count from the license files, measured September 5, 2026.
Suspended and revoked are the board’s findings, not a HyreRemodel judgment. A status is a fact about the credential on one date; check the board for today’s.
Two kinds of “verified” in our records
A company record is verified one of two ways, and they are not interchangeable.
Another 8,973 company records carry neither label in the field we counted, and we do not assign them a state by guesswork. The state shown on this page comes from each license file, which is filled in on all 22,183 records.
The Texas label keeps El Paso firms from being added to Florida’s 7,130 as if they were the same kind of license.
It is not “unverified” either: El Paso’s register is a government source, and the city requires an insurance certificate and a blanket construction bond before it registers a general contractor. It simply has no force outside El Paso.
A website badge that says “licensed and insured” is the company’s own claim. It never counts as verification here.
- State license (six states)
- We retrieved a state-issued contractor license from the board that issues it: Florida DBPR, Arizona ROC, California CSLB, Nevada NSCB, Utah DOPL or North Carolina NCLBGC. 14,638 company records are verified this way. It says the credential was current; it does not say the firm sells remodeling, carries insurance or has a clean file.
- City registration standard (Texas)
- Texas issues no residential general-contractor license, so we use a substitute: an active city registration whose rules require liability insurance, in most cases matched to a state Comptroller taxpayer number. 150 company records are verified this way, all in El Paso. It is a different instrument, not a weaker Florida license.
How we collected each state
Each route is a government register, searched on a recorded date in a way someone else can repeat. The technical details are in the Sources list.
Florida: DBPR Construction Industry Licensing Board
Florida has no statewide search, so we ran the public Verify a Licensee form (Board 06) for every county option: 67 counties plus Foreign, Out of State and Unknown. We took three classes, none named for remodeling: Certified Building (CBC), Certified General (CGC) and Certified Residential (CRC), keeping businesses marked “Current, Active.”
On August 30, 2026, CBC returned 16,854 rows over 1,637 pages and CRC 7,136 rows over 940 pages. CGC returned 30,702 rows over 3,331 pages, but two buckets hit our 400-page limit (Dade: 511 pages; Out of State: 438), so the CGC pull is incomplete. We kept 7,130 Florida records after screening for remodeling.
Arizona: Registrar of Contractors
The public site blocked automated requests, so we used the registrar’s own search application behind it.
A class search stops near a thousand rows without a total, so any class that hit the limit was searched again city by city: 263 cities, built from the Census 2024 place list for Arizona (464 places) and every Arizona city that appeared in results.
Classes that name the trade are B-3 General Remodeling and Repair, CR-61 / R-61 Carpentry, Remodeling and Repairs, and R-62 Minor Home Improvements. B, KB-1, KB-2 and CR-7 allow remodeling without naming it. We hold 4,932 Arizona records, retrieved August 30, 2026.
California: Contractors State License Board
CSLB has no class search, so the list can only be reached by name. We stepped through Check a License alphabetically, kept business names with remodeling words (remodel, renovation, kitchen, bath, cabinet, countertop, design-build, builder and similar), then opened each active license.
Class B (General Building) allows remodeling without naming it. Specialty classes such as C-6 cabinets, C-15 flooring or C-54 tile count only where the name or trade description names remodeling.
A firm called “Summit Builders” is missed; a “Bath” hit can be a fixture shop. We hold 4,820 records from August 29, 2026, all active. We did not store CSLB discipline.
Nevada: State Contractors Board
The board’s listing search filters by class with no cap. On August 29, 2026, we took two families in full: B General Building (board count 3,932) and C-3 Carpentry, Maintenance and Minor Repairs (board count 1,495).
The listing held 3,494 Nevada-addressed rows and 1,644 out-of-state rows. The board counts total 5,427 and the address split 5,138; we have not reconciled that 289-row gap.
Nevada’s B-7 Residential Remodeling class names the trade. The rule was finalized in 2022 and applications opened in January 2023; the listing showed 73 B-7 and 9 B-7 Restricted holders. B-6 Commercial Remodeling is commercial. We hold the 3,494 Nevada-addressed records.
Utah: Division of Professional Licensing
DOPL’s lookup has no class filter. Its twenty contractor codes, read on August 29, 2026, do not include remodeling; B-100 General Building (which folds in specialty scopes under R156-55a-301c(2)(a)(i)) and S-220 Carpentry and Flooring are the nearest. So we searched business names for REMODEL, RENOVAT, KITCHEN, BATH, CABINET, COUNTERTOP, HOME IMPROVEMENT and DESIGN-BUILD.
A business name is the company’s own claim, so it is not proof of the service. The lookup sits behind reCAPTCHA with no shareable link. We hold 703 records (a minimum count), retrieved August 29–30, 2026. Utah is the only state where we stored discipline: 32 records.
North Carolina: Licensing Board for General Contractors
We searched the board portal by class and city: Residential, Building and S (Interior Construction), none named for remodeling. On August 16, 2026, fourteen city and class searches stopped at the portal’s roughly 300-row limit, including Residential in Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Chapel Hill, Apex, Wake Forest, Clayton, Charlotte, Huntersville, Matthews, Mooresville, Concord, Waxhaw and Monroe.
The board also rate-limits: about 30 requests at 350 ms triggered a block that outlasted the run, so the collector now waits at least 1.2 seconds between requests. We searched the Raleigh and Charlotte areas only. The 149 records are a capped, incomplete set, not a count of North Carolina remodelers.
Texas: two city registers, not TDLR
Texas issues no residential general-contractor license. TDLR licenses electricians, AC contractors, mold remediators and residential solar retailers, and the Texas Residential Construction Commission, which registered builders, was abolished in 2009 with no successor. No Texas GC number is the legal normal, not a red flag.
San Antonio’s Contractor Connect lists registrants by type of work (Additions, Minor Repairs and New Homes among seven).
Information Bulletin 236 lists general liability insurance among the minimum requirements, but the register does not publish the carrier or limits.
We hold 805 San Antonio registrations, retrieved August 29, 2026, valid at the city’s permit counter only.
El Paso publishes Contractor General registrations on Accela Citizen Access; we searched month by month and kept Issued and Active-About-to-Expire records. The city requires an insurance certificate and a blanket construction bond first.
We hold 150 El Paso registrations, and the 150 Texas company records are this set. A weaker Comptroller business-code list exists and is not in these counts.
Allowed to remodel is not the same as “is a remodeler”
A license shows a firm is allowed to do the work. Unless the class name says remodeling, it does not show the firm sells it.
Florida licenses remodelers as CGC, CBC or CRC; North Carolina as Building or Residential; California as Class B; Utah as B-100; Nevada mostly as B or B-2. None of those names says remodeling.
Counting every such license as a remodeling contractor would count hospital builders, production homebuilders and commercial firms as remodelers because they are allowed to work on a house.
Arizona writes the trade into the class: B-3, the CR-61 / C-61 / R-61 family and R-62 are service evidence, while B, KB-1 and KB-2 are not.
Nevada’s B-7 does the same; on the August 29, 2026, listing it had 82 holders across both versions, against 5,034 rows in the two families that only allow the work.
Everywhere else, a second signal turns permission into a service claim: the firm’s own site, a BBB business category, NKBA or NARI membership, a permit record, or (weaker) a business name that names the trade.
That is why this page publishes counts of licenses, not a list of “remodeling contractors near you,” and why it has no search box that would call every Miami-Dade general contractor a remodeler.
Does the license class name remodeling?
A “yes” means the class itself is evidence of the service. A “no” means the license is the minimum and the service needs a second source.
| State | Main class (or city equivalent) | Names remodeling? | So a record here is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | CGC / CBC / CRC | No | Permission to do the work. 7,130 records. Not a count of firms that sell remodeling. |
| Arizona | B-3, CR-61 / R-61, R-62 (yes); B / KB-1 / KB-2 (no) | Some classes | Mixed: named-class records are service evidence, general-class records are permission. 4,932 in total. |
| California | B General Building | No | Permission. 4,820 records, found by name because CSLB has no class search. |
| Nevada | B / B-2 (no); B-7 (yes); C-3 family (no) | B-7 only | Mostly permission. 3,494 Nevada-addressed records from the B and C-3 families. |
| Utah | B-100 / S-220 | No | Permission, found by business name. 703 records, a minimum count. |
| North Carolina | Residential / Building / S Interior | No | Permission, and only at $40,000 or more. 149 records, a partial pull. |
| Texas | San Antonio types of work; El Paso Contractor General | Not a state class | A city registration, not a license. 955 records in two cities. |
Our reading of each board’s published classes against the 22,183 license files, measured September 5, 2026. The class-by-class study is what the license class actually names.
“Names remodeling” describes the class the board prints, not what the firm did last week. A B-3 holder who now builds new homes is still a B-3 holder. Check the board, then ask what the bid covers.
How to read a row in the state table
Florida: 7,130 records, 32.1%. Read it as: on August 30, 2026, we retrieved 7,130 CILB credentials (CGC, CBC, CRC) from the public search, county by county, and kept them.
Do not read it as “Florida has 7,130 remodeling companies.” One company can hold several licenses, and a remodeler with only a city license is not in it.
Texas: 955 records. Read it as: two city registers, retrieved August 29–30, 2026. Do not add 955 to Florida’s count and call the total “verified remodelers,” and do not assume Houston, Dallas or Austin have none: they were not searched. A San Antonio registration is not a TDLR license.
North Carolina: 149 records. Read it as: a capped set from the Raleigh and Charlotte areas, with fourteen searches cut off at 300 rows. Wilmington, Asheville and Greensboro were not searched, and a $35,000 kitchen in Raleigh is lawfully outside the board. Calling 149 “North Carolina’s remodelers” would be false.
The share column shows where our records are concentrated, not market share.
Florida, Arizona and California hold 76.1% because that is where we could collect at scale, not because those states have more remodelers per household.
Utah is a minimum count and North Carolina a capped one; do not compare their percentages as if they were the same kind of number.
What this page is not
There is no search box, and we will not add a decorative one. If you have a license number, look it up on the issuing board: the lookup directory links each one.
Printing the list as a web page would be unreadable and a poor substitute for the board’s own lookup. The counts, method and limits are what we publish.
Seven states only. Anything built on these records carries that geography in its title.
Being in these records means a board or city showed a credential, nothing more. HyreRemodel does not remodel homes and takes no fee to rank, place or mention a company.
Discipline is retrieved for Utah only. An empty field in the other six states means we have not retrieved it, not that the board has nothing on file.
A founding year is filled in for 123 of 23,756 companies. Treating that as a census would be false.
How to use this page when you are hiring
The contractor records page will not give you a name to call. It tells you which public register to open, what a result there means, and what to read next.
The coverage cell matters more than the count. “Statewide board records,” “two cities only” and “partial pull” are different claims. If your state is not in the table, we hold nothing on it.
An Arizona B-3 or a Nevada B-7 says remodeling in the class itself. Everywhere else, including Arizona B / KB-1 / KB-2, the class allows the work but does not prove the firm does it. Ask what they last built that looks like your job.
Use the license lookup directory and confirm the business name, class, status and expiration against the board today, not our August dates. In Texas outside El Paso and San Antonio there is no state GC number: check the city, then TDLR or TSBPE for the trades.
California, Florida, Arizona and Nevada publish discipline on their own sites; we have not stored it. Our 35 suspended and 9 revoked Arizona records all have empty discipline fields. Run the board’s own search, and see clean board records.
A license is the minimum. Compare drawings, allowances, exclusions, change-order rules, the payment schedule and, for a house built before 1978, EPA lead-safe certification. The quote comparison worksheet lines them up.
Check a contractor on the board yourself
Our records are research. The board is the authority of record, its lookup is free and current, and it is the check a permit office runs. Our retrieval dates are August 16, 29 and 30, 2026; the board’s is today.
Florida DBPR: Verify a Licensee · Arizona ROC: Contractor Search · California CSLB: Check a License · Nevada NSCB: License Search · Utah DOPL: Licensee Lookup · North Carolina NCLBGC: Public Search · San Antonio Contractor Connect · El Paso Accela Citizen Access
For Texas work outside those two cities there is no state general-contractor number. Check the city’s registration if it has one, the trade licenses TDLR issues (electrical, AC) and TSBPE (plumbing), then an insurance certificate from the insurer.
Questions
Is this a national remodeling contractor directory?
Can I search the records by name or city?
Does being in these records mean HyreRemodel recommends a company?
Why is Texas included if the state issues no license?
What does “verified” mean for a Texas record?
Why is the North Carolina count so small?
Does a Florida CGC, CBC or CRC license mean the company remodels?
If a record shows no disciplinary action, is the company clean?
How is this page different from the remodeling contractor census?
When were these records retrieved?
Written and audited by
HyreRemodel Research Desk
Primary-source research, data analysis and fact checking
We are a research desk, not a remodeling contractor and not a sales floor.
We read the statute, the licensing register or the municipal fee schedule ourselves, and we publish the figure with the document it came from and the date we retrieved it.
Where a number cannot be traced to a primary source, we publish the shorter page and say what we could not verify.
This program is new, and the counts below are small: they are what we have actually published, not what we intend to.
- 7
- studies published
- 7
- states in the contractor store we measure against
- 264
- source documents linked from these pages, 101 of them on .gov domains
- 22,183
- license records measured September 5, 2026
How this desk works
- Primary sources only. Licensing facts come from the issuing board or the statute that creates the credential. Permit-fee facts come from the municipality that publishes the schedule. We do not cite an article that cites a source; we open the source and record the date.
- Our own store is titled to the states it covers. We hold verified contractor records for seven states. An asset that rests on those records is titled to those states. National claims rest on federal or state-agency data (Census, BLS, EPA), never on our counts.
- Absence of a record is not a finding about the company. A board that does not publish disciplinary history in a form we retrieved is excluded from any “clean record” claim. Unable to verify is not unlicensed. Not required is not not carried.
- Fact, calculation, analysis and recommendation stay labelled. A statute is a source fact. A count we derived from our store is a HyreRemodel calculation. What that count means is analysis. What a homeowner should do next is a recommendation.
- We do not remodel homes, and we take no payment for placement, ranking or a favorable mention. Nobody buys a position on this site.
Data as of September 5, 2026. Authorship on this site is organizational: the analysis belongs to the desk rather than to a named individual, and we do not publish credentials we do not hold. Our editorial policy sets out how we source, date and correct what we publish.
Sources & retrieval dates
A license is the minimum. The quote is the job.
Once the credential checks out on the board, compare what each bid actually includes, not which one is cheapest on the cover sheet.
HyreRemodel does not do remodeling work and does not rank companies for a fee. Nothing on this site is a quote, a license verification for a specific job, or legal advice. Check the issuing board and your building department. This page covers seven states, not fifty.