How we verify listings | Shower Remodelers

Most listings here reflect one state license record, filed with whichever agency that state puts in charge of contractors. We check the record's status and class, note when it took effect, and point you to the state's own page so you can see the filing yourself. In a city where this site has no such record to show, we list the top-rated shower remodelers Google Maps shows for that search instead, which the ranking section of this page explains in full.

Neither check is an inspection of a contractor's finished work or a vetting process on our part; for a look at completed jobs, ask the contractor directly for references.

Where the listings come from

California: contractor license records of the California Contractors State License Board, from the CSLB Public Data Portal: License Master file dataset. CSLB notes that license status can change at any time and points to its license check for the most current status. How to check a license in California.
Florida: contractor license records of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, from the Construction Industry Public Records (licensee files) dataset. How to check a license in Florida.
Washington: contractor license records of the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries, from the L&I Contractor License Data - General dataset. data.wa.gov lists this dataset as updated three times a day. How to check a license in Washington.

Each license listing also links to its own record on the state agency's website, so you can check it at the source.

What we check before a business is listed

The license is active in the registry when we pull the data. Businesses with any other status are left out.
The license hasn't passed its expiration date.
The business matches shower remodeling. We match on the registry's specialty classification, the registered business name, or both. That's why every listing shows its license class: check that it fits your job.
The business address on record is in a city with at least 5 matching businesses. Smaller cities don't get a page yet.

What each listing shows

Business name: As registered with the state, with capitalization tidied up.
Category: Our label for why the business is listed on this site, based on its specialty or registered name.
License class: The specialty the registry lists for the business, for example General or Roofing.
License number: The contractor license or registration number the registry uses.
Status: Active as of the date we checked. We don't list any other status.
Effective and expiration dates: When the current license took effect and when it expires, as the registry reports them.
Business type: For example limited liability company, corporation or individual, shown on each business's profile when the registry provides it.
City and ZIP: From the business address on record. They show where a business is based, not the area it serves, which is why we say “based in”.
Verify license: A link to the business's own record on the state agency's website.

What we leave out on purpose

We don't publish phone numbers, street addresses or the names of owners and principals, even where the registry lists them. The business name is the only name we show.

How often we refresh

We re-pull the registry data and rebuild these pages from it. Every city page shows the date its listings were last checked; the current listings were checked on September 30, 2026. A license can change between our checks, so the Verify license link, which opens the live record, is always the final word.

Top-rated lists

Some cities on this site simply don't have enough shower remodeler license records yet. When that happens, we turn to Google Maps instead, searching for shower remodeling contractors near that city and working from whatever the map hands back. Businesses drop out of contention if they're marked closed, sit outside a matching category, sit well outside the city for a place that size, carry only a review or two, or turn out to be a person's name, a store, a supplier or a lead marketplace rather than a working remodeler.

What's left gets put in order by a formula that treats a perfect rating sitting on a couple of reviews with more caution than a slightly lower rating backed by hundreds of them, so review count matters as much as the stars do. A city needs at least five qualifying businesses before we publish its list, and even then we cap it at the ten highest-ranked names.

Ratings move, so the page notes the month we checked them. We're not checking licenses here and we're not vouching for anyone: ask any business for its license or registration number and confirm it with the state before you sign anything, and remember the crew who actually returns your call might not be one of the names shown here.

The details, the same on every top-rated page (3,441 city pages on this site):

One Google Maps search per city for “shower remodeling contractor”, for cities of 10,000 or more people where this site has no license page.
Left out: businesses marked closed, businesses outside a matching Google category (stores, suppliers and showrooms among them), businesses far from the city center (about 6 to 25 miles, depending on the city's size), businesses with fewer than 3 reviews, and names that are a person's name or belong to a lead marketplace or a big-box store.
Ranked by a Bayesian average of the Google rating, (rating × reviews + 4.3 × 15) ÷ (reviews + 15), so a 5.0 from 3 reviews ranks below a 4.8 from 300.
A city needs at least 5 businesses that pass; the page shows the top 10.
Each listing shows its rank, Google rating, number of Google reviews, Google category, the town and ZIP in its address, and a link to its Google Maps listing. No phone numbers, websites, street addresses or review text.
Ratings were checked between September 2026 and October 2026. They change every day, so open the Google reviews link for the current figure.

A rating is not a license check and not an endorsement. Before you hire anyone, ask for the license or registration number your state or city requires and check it with the office that issued it.

What we don't do

We don't review or endorse contractors, and a listing isn't a recommendation. License listings are sorted alphabetically; top-rated lists are ranked only by Google rating and review count, as described above. No business pays to be listed, to be left off or for its position. If we ever add paid placements, they will be marked Sponsored. How we make money.

Something wrong?

Business owners can claim a listing to ask for a correction, or ask us to remove it.