What Is A Contractor? As defined by *CSLB:

*CSLB- California State License Board

 

 A “contractor” is an individual who is currently a licensed California contractor, a former licensed California contractor, personnel of record on a California license, or an out-of-state licensed contractor.

 A contractor has the skills necessary to manage the daily activities of a construction business, including field supervision.

 

What Experience Is Required To Be A Roofing Contractor?

 California Contractor Experience Requirement as defined by CSLB:

The qualifying individual must document at least four (4) full years of journeyman-level or higher experience in the classification for which he or she is applying. The experience must have been obtained within the last 10 years.

 

 

What is a journeyman?

Journeyman Roofer, as defined by CSLB:

A journeyman is a person who has completed an apprenticeship program or is an experienced worker, not a trainee, and is fully qualified and able to perform a specific trade without supervision. But, that person does not have a license and is not able to contract for jobs that value more than $500 in labor and materials.

 

Or Wikipedia:

In the United States, employment in the building trades, such as an electrician or plumber or carpenter, usually requires that a person holds a state or local (city or county) license as a journeyman or master.

The journeyman license certifies that the craftsman has met the requirements of time in the field (usually a minimum of 8000 hours) and time in an approved classroom setting (usually 700 hours).

 A journeyman has the responsibility of supervising workers of lesser experience and training them, in addition to having the qualifications (knowledge and skills) to work unsupervised himself.

 A journeyman is commonly expected to have a wide range of experience, covering most fields of his trade. For example, a non journeyman worker of some 20 or 30 years experience may have most or all of his experience in only residential, commercial or industrial applications. A journeyman however, has a broad field of experience in residential, commercial, and industrial applications.

 

 According to all accepted definitions, it is actually requires a broader range of experience to be a journeyman than it does to be a contractor. The main difference being that a contractor has an actual license that can be held accountable in the event of a problem.

 

                                     

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