Research

HyreRemodel research

Original analysis of the supply side of remodeling: who is licensed, what the credential means, and what the public record actually shows.

Updated September 2026 · Data as of HyreRemodel contractor store, measured 2026-09-05

Written by HyreRemodel Research Desk Primary-source research and fact checking

23,756 companies in the store Measured 2026-09-05

22,183 licence records Seven state and municipal authorities

7 states the store covers FL, CA, AZ, NV, TX, UT, NC — not the nation

What this is

We publish original analysis of residential remodeling as a regulated trade — computed from state licensing registers, the statutes that create those credentials, and the municipal schedules that price a permit. Every study names its source files, publishes its method, and states its limits above the fold. Research is attributed to the HyreRemodel Research Desk, never to an individual. We do not remodel homes.

The standing rules

An asset that rests on our contractor store is titled to the seven states that store covers. National claims rest on federal or state-agency data, never on our counts.

Texas licenses no residential general contractor at the state level. Records we hold for Texas are municipal registrations and entity filings, and they are not comparable with a California CSLB licence. That difference belongs in the first screen of anything that touches Texas, not in a footnote.

Unable to verify is not unlicensed. An empty disciplinary field is not a clean record. A state that does not require insurance is not a state where contractors go uninsured.

Harvard JCHS (LIRA) and Remodeling Cost vs. Value own the demand-side and resale-value citation. We cite them. We do not try to out-source them. The gap we can fill is the supply side: who is actually licensed to do this work.

What this desk will not do

We do not publish a 50-state contractor count from a seven-state store.

We do not rank companies on review scores we have not retrieved.

We do not treat Cost vs. Value as a quote for your house.

We do not invent named experts, credentials or first-hand project experience.

The studies

TX = 0 States without a residential GC licence No state licence is not unregulated. Municipal rules sit underneath. Read the study 7 states What “licensed contractor” means Classes, thresholds and why a Florida CRC is not an Arizona B-3. Read the study 22,183 The remodeling contractor census Seven states counted, set against Census CBP. The gap is the finding. Read the study $1,000 How much deposit a contractor can ask for California’s cap is not national. Verified statutes, not blog round-ups. Read the study CGL ≠ bond Insurance requirements by state Not required is not not carried. Bond, workers’ comp and CGL are three things. Read the study 51 Every state’s licence lookup Official URLs, whether they resolve, and whether discipline is on the record. Read the study $1,406 What a remodeling permit costs A $50,000 alteration in Phoenix. Cities we could not finish are excluded. Read the study

Questions

Does HyreRemodel remodel homes?

No. HyreRemodel is a research and matching site. We publish original analysis of the remodeling trade and introduce homeowners to local professionals. We do not perform remodeling work, pull permits, or take a fee for ranking a company.

Why do the studies cover seven states rather than fifty?

Our contractor store holds verified records for Florida, California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Utah and North Carolina. An asset built on that store is titled to those states. Studies that rest on statutes or federal data can be national; studies that rest on our counts cannot.

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 programme is new and the counts below are correspondingly 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
10: Wave-1 pages in this launch
22,183: licence records measured 5 September 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 favourable mention. Nobody buys a position on this site.

Data as of HyreRemodel contractor store, measured 2026-09-05. Authorship on this site is organisational: 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

HyreRemodel contractor verification store , 23,756 companies and 22,183 licence records across seven states, each stored with a source URL and retrieval date. Measured 2026-09-05 from data/remodeling-data/. Retrieved 2026-09-05.

Planning a project as well as reading the research

A licence is a floor. Comparing what each quote actually includes is how you tell a complete bid from a cheap one.

Quote comparison worksheet All remodeling calculators

HyreRemodel does not perform remodeling work. Nothing on this site is a quote, a licence verification for a named job, or legal advice. Check the issuing board and the building department that governs your lot.