Find a licensed bathroom remodeler, city by city

Three states, three ways to license a remodeler

Washington registers contractors as general or specialty and licenses plumbing separately from either one.^[1],[2]

California runs 45 different contractor classifications through its licensing board, from a general building license down to a single trade.^[3]

Florida certifies contractors to work statewide or registers them for one local jurisdiction, and plumbing is its own category under the same law.^[4],[5],[6]

The trade matters as much as the company

A company licensed to run your whole remodel is not automatically licensed to do your plumbing.^[7]

Our guide to bathroom remodeling licenses below walks through exactly where each state draws that line.

Before you sign anything

Washington's L&I pushes homeowners toward written bids, phased payments, and a lien release from every subcontractor before that last check clears.^[8]

California requires a written contract once a job passes 500 dollars and caps the down payment at 10 percent or 1,000 dollars, whichever is less.^[9]

Our contract guide below covers what that means for a bathroom job specifically.