Washington requires contractors to register with the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I); electricians and plumbers hold separate L&I electrical and plumbing contractor licenses.
87% of the 2,590 firms on the Bellevue permit file match an active license in Washington L&I contractor registration and electrical and plumbing contractor license data. 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 Washington L&I contractor lookup. How to check a contractor's license in Washington →
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 Bellevue 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 that passed final inspection. 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 final inspection, using the city's dates, compared with other Bellevue contractors in the trade. Shown for firms with 10+ permits.
Matched by name against Washington L&I contractor registration and electrical and plumbing contractor license data. 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.
Bellevue specifics: Bellevue records each contractor's L&I registration, so firms are matched to L&I by their state business number (UBI) rather than by name alone. Only plan-reviewed building permits (new homes, additions, decks, remodels) record a job value, so trade permits show no typical cost. The city's export carries final dates up to 4 September 2026. A builder is named on only about 3 in 10 new-home permits, so the new-home list is thin.
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