49 water heater installers filed 1,578 water heater permits on homes in the City of Ames from October 2023 to September 2026; 37 filed one in the last 12 months. The most active in the last 12 months were C and K Inc (133 permits), Draintech (131) and One Hour Heating & Air (66); busy is not the same as careful. Ames water heater permits carry no filed job value and the finished share isn't shown for water heater permits here, so this list compares firms on permits filed and recent activity only. Side by side: permits filed and permits in the last 12 months for each firm. Pick what you value and the list re-orders.
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Top 5 by water heater permits filed in the last 12 months. This is volume, not quality: a busy firm is not necessarily a careful one.
The 2 ZIP codes with the most water heater permits on homes from October 2023 to September 2026. Each opens permits by trade and the most active firms there.
Before you move a slider, the list is in a default order built only from the permit record: how much of each firm’s record is this kind of job (weight 30), how many permits it filed in the last 12 months (15) and how quickly its permits closed (10). Each measure is ranked against the other 49 firms and pulled toward the middle when a record is short.
The order comes from the Ames permit file, not from reviews: 37 of 49 water heater installers filed a permit in the last 12 months. Nobody pays to be listed or to move up, and there are no star ratings or reviews. The sliders and presets change the weights, and the order changes with them. How the records work in Ames.
We do not rate contractors. In this page’s default order, which uses only the permit record through Sep 2026, the top 3 are One Hour Heating & Air (270 permits), Draintech (376 permits) and C and K Inc (318 permits). By permits filed alone, the most active is Draintech with 376.
49 firms are on the list; the busiest filed 133 water heater permits in the last 12 months and the middle firm filed 5 in the whole file. Line them up on the same public measures: permits filed. Pick what matters to you and the list re-orders, for example recent activity if you need someone soon. The order comes from the permit record only, and nobody pays to be listed or to move up.
49 firms filed at least one water heater permit on homes in the City of Ames from October 2023 to September 2026; 37 of them filed one in the last 12 months.
We have not matched license records to Ames firms, so ask for the license number and check it yourself with Iowa contractor registration (DIAL). How to check a contractor's license (registration) in Iowa →
Three you can check against this page: “How many water heater permits have you filed in Ames?” (the middle firm here filed 5; 37 of 49 filed one in the last 12 months); “What does your quote include: the permit fee and the city inspection?”; “Will you pull the permit in your company’s name, and when is the final inspection?”. All 10 questions and how to check each →
On this page: 49 firms filed 1,578 water heater permits from October 2023 to September 2026, and each firm’s name opens its own permit record. Every number comes from City of Ames residential permits (one record per permit). To see one permit itself, search the address or permit number with the Ames permit office. How the records work in Ames →
Ames water heater permits carry no filed job value, so we can’t rank water heater installers by price. Get two or three written quotes; ask whether the permit fee and the city inspection are included; shortlist from the 37 firms that filed in the last 12 months.
We do not rate or collect reviews. Instead each of the 49 water heater installers here is shown with its permit record: 1,578 permits. Read reviews on other sites and use this page to check them against the record. Reviews vs permit records →
Every number on this page comes from City of Ames residential permits (one record per permit): 49 firms filed 1,578 water heater permits on homes in the City of Ames from October 2023 to September 2026, and 37 of them filed one in the last 12 months. The middle firm has 5 permits in the whole file. A short record leaves more uncertainty, and some jobs never require a permit.
No usable job value is recorded for this permit type, so no typical cost is shown. See how we compare records.
Most Ames water heater permits are filed in July (144 against an average month of 100); August is the quietest (73). When each trade is busiest in Ames →