Ohio licenses commercial HVAC, plumbing and electrical contractors (OCILB) but not residential contractors. Every contractor who pulls a Cleveland permit must hold a City of Cleveland contractor registration.
We don't hold the licensing board's file for Cleveland, so we don't show license status for the 1,984 firms on the permit file. Check each one yourself.
Ask the contractor for the license number and look it up at Cleveland Building & Housing. 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 Cleveland 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 or were closed. 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 Cleveland contractors in the trade. Shown for firms with 10+ permits.
Not shown yet for Cleveland — 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.
Cleveland specifics: Roofing, windows, siding and solar are split out of building-permit descriptions. Demolition is mostly city-funded removal of condemned houses. Ohio doesn't license residential contractors, so license status isn't shown.
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