California contractors doing jobs of $500 or more must hold a CSLB license.
85% of the 2,375 firms on the Anaheim permit file match an active license in the California CSLB license master file, matched by business name because Anaheim permits record no license number. Our match can miss a firm that files under another name, so a missing match is a reason to check, not a finding.
Ask the contractor for the license number and look it up at CSLB license check. How to check a contractor's license in California →
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 Anaheim permits in the most recent year of our data. It shows recent recorded activity here, not every job the company did.
For contractors with at least 5 permits a year or more old, the share the city finaled. A permit can stay open because of paperwork or timing, so this isn't a workmanship grade.
How long their permits take from issue to the city's finaled date, compared with other Anaheim contractors in the trade. Shown for firms with 10+ permits.
Matched by name against the California CSLB license master file, matched by business name because Anaheim permits record no license number. Name matching can miss a license, so always check the number yourself.
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.
Anaheim specifics: Orange County publishes no bulk assessment roll (the Assessor's roll is a paid product), so Anaheim pages can't show the kind of homes a contractor works on, a ZIP home value or a price comparison. Anaheim's electrical, HVAC, plumbing, water heater and EV charger permits carry no job value, so those trades show counts, completion and speed but no typical cost; job values are shown for re-roofs, windows, patio covers, remodels, ADUs, additions, solar and pools. Permits carry no license number, so licenses are matched to the CSLB file by name; a name shared by several licenses shows no license, and the file leaves out cancelled and long-expired licenses. Owner-builder permits name no contractor and aren't ranked. Pools includes pool removals as well as new pools, which pulls its typical cost down. Locations are by ZIP code.
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