Iowa requires contractor registration and licenses electricians, plumbers and HVAC (mechanical) contractors.
We don't hold the licensing board's file for Ames, so we don't show license status for the 341 firms on the permit file. Check each one yourself.
Ask the contractor for the license number and look it up at Iowa contractor registration (DIAL). How to check a contractor's license (registration) in Iowa →
The middle value recorded on this contractor's matching permits. It's a permit value, not a quote or the final price. Ask for a written estimate.
Matching Ames permits in the most recent year of our data. It shows recent recorded activity here, not every job the company did.
How long their permits take from issue to final inspection, using the city's dates, compared with other Ames contractors in the trade. Shown for firms with 10+ permits.
Not shown yet for Ames — see the note below.
About the ranking: The score combines how much of this exact work a contractor has on record, how often their older permits reached completion (where we can measure it), how well their usual job size matches your budget, how recently they've been active, and how much of their work is near you. A measure we can't calculate is left out rather than guessed, and a thin record pulls the score toward the middle. A contractor whose matched license has a problem is listed after everyone else. You set the weights with the sliders on every list.
Ames specifics: Ames records a job value only on building permits, so HVAC, water heater, plumbing and electrical permits show no typical cost. Almost every older permit here passes final inspection, so completion rate can't tell contractors apart and isn't shown. Plumbing and electrical times include new-home rough-in permits, which take months. Ames issues no re-roof permits, so there is no roofing list. Iowa publishes no bulk contractor-registration or license file, so license status isn't shown.
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