Contractors for commercial properties

[Tamas Z.]

Hi everyone,

I'm going to need a contractor to get some minor work done on my property. I've read some of our fine articles on finding a good contractor, but they didn't really talk about the "commercial license". That is, I believe only a contractor who is licensed to work on commercial properties is allowed to be hired to do work on my property. Or something like that....

What are the rules around that? Is a commercial contractor the same as the "licensed contractor" discussed in onr of the BP articles?

Are commercial contractors generally held to higher standards than regular residential contractors (e.g. "must know what's to code, and are liable if they do something not to code/quality standards")? I've seen too many friends get huge headaches because of having hired a subpar contractor that did a subpar job (or didn't finish, etc.) Are the same concerns still a thing, even with a properly-licensed, commercial contractor?

Thanks!