Delaware general contractor licence: what there is to verify

Delaware does not license general contractors. A construction business needs a Division of Revenue business license, which is a tax registration — it is issued on payment, tests nothing, and says nothing about whether the holder can build. There is no state competency licence to verify and no register that will confirm one.

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What you can check instead

What is verifiable: the licensed trades on the job. Delaware licenses master electricians, master plumbers, HVACR masters and elevator mechanics as individuals, and this API checks any of them in one call. Ask a Delaware general contractor for the names and licence numbers of the tradespeople doing the regulated work, and verify those — that is the whole of what can actually be confirmed in this state.

What Division of Professional Regulation does not publish

• General contractors — Delaware does not license them
• Company names — every trade license is held by a person
• Street address
• Surety bond
• Workers' compensation
• General liability insurance
• Disciplinary actions

Full coverage detail, including the caveats that apply to every Delaware lookup, is on the Delaware page.

Other trades in Delaware

General contractors in other states