The City of Aspen requires contractors to register before pulling permits, and the State of Colorado (DORA) licenses master electricians and plumbers.
We don't hold the licensing board's file for Aspen, CO, so we don't show license status for the 378 firms on the permit file. Check each one yourself.
Ask the contractor for the license number and look it up at City of Aspen contractor licensing. How to check a contractor's license in Colorado →
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 Aspen, CO 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 closed with a final inspection, compared with permits of the same trade issued in the same quarter. 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 final or certificate of occupancy, compared with other Aspen contractors in the trade. Shown for firms with 10+ permits.
Not shown yet for Aspen, CO — 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.
Aspen, CO specifics: These are City of Aspen permits only; Snowmass Village, Basalt and unincorporated Pitkin County issue their own. On Aspen building permits the account named is often the architect or design firm rather than the builder: about 39% of residential building permits were filed by architects, designers or interior designers. Architects and design firms are excluded from the rankings because they aren't the contractor, so those permits are left unattributed and the builder behind them isn't credited, which makes Remodel & Building counts lower than the work actually done. Owner-pulled permits aren't ranked. Aspen homes are among the most valuable in the country (the usual single-family home is worth about $9.6 million), and job values here run far above national norms, so compare Aspen costs with other Aspen jobs rather than with other cities. Fireplace & Hearth is split out of mechanical permits by the work described. Aspen and Pitkin County require every contractor company to hold a local contractor license, but the license list isn't published as a file we can match, so license status isn't shown: check it on the City's contractor licensing page. Locations are by ZIP code. Some firms appear under two spellings.
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Sources, matching rules and definitions for every city: Methodology. The numbers: Aspen, CO permit statistics · How long permits take in Aspen, CO
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