We use public records to help you make a shortlist. They show what a contractor has filed and where they have worked in Cincinnati. They can't tell you whether someone will be right for your home.
Ohio licenses commercial HVAC, plumbing and electrical contractors (OCILB) but not residential contractors.
We don't hold the licensing board's file for Cincinnati, so we don't show license status for the 1,752 firms on the permit file. Check each one yourself.
Ask the contractor for the license number and look it up at Cincinnati registered contractor lookup. How to check a contractor's license in Ohio →
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 Cincinnati 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 reached a 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 completion, using the city's completion dates, compared with other Cincinnati contractors in the trade. Shown for firms with 10+ permits.
Not shown yet for Cincinnati — 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.
Cincinnati specifics: Cincinnati's open data has no electrical permits, and roofing, decks and fences can't be told apart from other building work. Ohio doesn't license residential contractors and the city's contractor registry is a one-name lookup, so license status isn't shown.
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