34 water heater installers filed 813 water heater permits on homes in the City of Bellingham from October 2023 to September 2026; 19 filed one in the last 12 months. The most active in the last 12 months were Marr's Heating & A/C Inc (91 permits), Barron Heating & A/C Inc (89) and Caz Energy Audits LLC (33); busy is not the same as careful. Bellingham water heater permits carry no filed job value, so this list compares firms on permits filed, finishing, license and recent activity only. Side by side: permits filed, share finished, license status 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.
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 often its permits reached completion (25), 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 34 firms and pulled toward the middle when a record is short; a firm with a matched license problem is listed last.
The order comes from the Bellingham permit file, not from reviews: 19 of 34 water heater installers filed a permit in the last 12 months and 88% of their permits a year or more old were finished. 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 Bellingham.
We do not rate contractors. In this page’s default order, which uses only the permit record through Sep 2026, the top 3 are Barron Heating & A/C Inc (296 permits, 97% finished), Marr's Heating & A/C Inc (166 permits, 93% finished) and Caz Energy Audits LLC (158 permits, 91% finished).
34 firms are on the list; the busiest filed 91 water heater permits in the last 12 months and the middle firm filed 1 in the whole file. Line them up on the same public measures: permits filed, share of permits finished and license status. 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.
34 firms filed at least one water heater permit on homes in the City of Bellingham from October 2023 to September 2026; 19 of them filed one in the last 12 months.
28 of the 34 water heater installers on the Bellingham permit file match an active license, 4 match one that is expired, suspended or inactive, and 2 we could not match. A firm we could not match is not proven unlicensed: the match is by company name. Look any firm up by name or license number with Washington L&I contractor lookup; statuses show under each firm’s name above. How to check a contractor's license in Washington →
Three you can check against this page: “How many water heater permits have you filed in Bellingham?” (the middle firm here filed 1; 19 of 34 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?” (88% of older water heater permits here were finished). All 10 questions and how to check each →
On this page: 34 firms filed 813 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 Bellingham permits on single-family homes, duplexes and townhomes. To see one permit itself, search the address or permit number with the Bellingham permit office. How the records work in Bellingham →
Bellingham 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 19 firms that filed in the last 12 months.
We do not rate or collect reviews. Instead each of the 34 water heater installers here is shown with its permit record: 813 permits, the share finished and license status. 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 Bellingham permits on single-family homes, duplexes and townhomes: 34 firms filed 813 water heater permits on homes in the City of Bellingham from October 2023 to September 2026, and 19 of them filed one in the last 12 months. The middle firm has 1 permit 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 Bellingham water heater permits are filed in October (128 against an average month of 100); August is the quietest (59). When each trade is busiest in Bellingham →