21% of the 1,614 firms on the Denton permit file match an active license in the Texas TDLR public license file (A/C and electrical contractor business licenses). 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 Texas TDLR license search. How to check a contractor's license in Texas →
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 Denton 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 were finaled, adjusted for permit age. A permit can stay open because of paperwork or timing, so this isn't a workmanship grade.
Estimated, not measured: Denton doesn't publish the date a permit was finaled, only its status, so speed is worked out from how many of a contractor's permits are finaled at each age, compared with other Denton contractors in the trade. Shown for firms with 20+ permits.
Matched by name against the Texas TDLR public license file (A/C and electrical contractor business licenses). 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.
Denton specifics: The city's files for permits issued before 2025 were last refreshed in June 2025, so their status (and age) is counted to that date, and a permit that finaled later still counts as open. For fast trades (HVAC, water heater, plumbing, gas and water/sewer lines, irrigation, fence, electrical) most permits final within a few weeks, so no typical number of days is shown and firm speed mostly reflects how many permits are still open. Licenses are matched by business name. Plumbers are licensed by the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners, which isn't in the TDLR file, and Texas doesn't license general contractors, builders, roofers or fence companies, so those usually show no license. TDLR publishes no start date, so years licensed isn't shown. Values under $100 aren't used as prices.
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