How this site works, and the rules it keeps
California allows a website to put homeowners in touch with a licensed contractor, within limits the Contractors State License Board sets out. These are the limits, and how this site keeps each one.
Updated September 2026. Every rule checked at the licensing board's own pages, listed at the end.
Disclosure: this site makes introductions. It holds no contractor license and sets no prices. How this works
Short answer
This site passes your details to one contractor licensed by the Contractors State License Board, and the contractor calls you to set a visit. You sign the contract with that contractor and pay that contractor directly, which is how the licensing board's guidance on referral services says it should go. The site takes no payment from you, gives no price and does no part of the work.
Stage 01 of 06, where this sits
What this site is, in the licensing board's words
The Contractors State License Board's guidance on referral services opens the subject in one line: contractor referral services are legal in California, but within limits. It then says what a referral may do. A referral service "may serve as a repository for licensed contractors and provide contractor contact information to prospective customers."
This site does that for one contractor. It holds no contractor license of its own, does no construction and sets no prices, and the disclosure line near the top of every page says the same thing in fewer words.
The contractor you are introduced to
One contractor, licensed by the Contractors State License Board, takes the introductions from this site. The contractor visits the kitchen, measures it and gives you a written price. Nobody from this website comes to the house.
Check the license yourself. When the contractor calls, ask for the license number and look it up on CSLB's Check A License page, which searches any license by its number.
To ask for a visit and a written price, use the free estimate page.
Get a written price
Free to you. The contractor calls to set a visit.
What happens to the details you send
The short form asks for three things: a phone number, a ZIP code and the stage you are at. The longer form at the top of the homepage adds your name, what you are changing and when you want to start. Both go to the one contractor, who calls to set a visit.
The ZIP code starts the City or County check, and your street address settles it, because the same community names sit on both sides of the city line.
Nobody on this site gives a price, a range or a ballpark figure. The contractor prices the job after seeing the kitchen, and the kitchen remodel cost page sets out what is published about kitchen prices in the meantime.
Who you sign with, and who you pay
The licensing board is specific about this. To keep a referral on the right side of the law, CSLB's referral guidance says "the prospective customer should enter into a contract directly with the licensed contractor and make payments directly to that licensed contractor."
On this site that is the only way it can go. You sign any contract with the contractor directly, and every payment for the work, deposit included, goes to the contractor. This site never asks for a card number, a deposit or a signature.
Where this site's part ends
The same guidance draws the outer line. A referral service "cannot solicit or negotiate contracts on behalf of a contractor, or offer to undertake to, or purport to have the capacity to undertake itself or through others a construction project," citing Business and Professions Code section 7026 (the licensing board's guidance on referral services).
So this site's part ends once the contractor has your details. It does not negotiate your contract, does not come to your house and does no part of the work, and it does not speak for the contractor on price, schedule or scope. Those conversations are between you and the contractor from the first call.
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The four questions about this site
Is this website the contractor?
No. This website holds no contractor license, does no construction and sets no prices. It introduces you to one contractor licensed by the Contractors State License Board, and that contractor handles the visit, the price and the work. Under the licensing board's guidance on referral services, a referral may pass on a licensed contractor's contact details but may not negotiate contracts or take on the work itself.
Does the introduction cost anything?
Nothing to you. The contractor visits, measures and gives you a written price, and whether to hire is your call. Every payment for the work goes straight to the contractor, the way the licensing board's guidance says a referral should work.
How do I check the contractor's license?
Ask for the license number when the contractor calls, then look it up on CSLB's Check A License page. The board's search works by license number, so the number is all you need to bring.
What if I would rather hire someone else?
Then hire them. This site works with one contractor, and sending your details commits you to nothing. Whoever you choose, the licensing board's advice holds: sign the contract with the licensed contractor and pay that contractor directly.
Sources
Every rule on this page was read in the licensing board's own documents in September 2026. The board's referral guidance dates from 2018, so this page quotes its rules and none of its dollar figures.