Aaron Peel Construction — General & Excavating Contractor, Paso Robles

Three classifications, one contractor

Most builders hold one of these. The state licenses this one for all three, which is why the same crew can start at bare dirt and hand back a finished house.

A — GENERAL ENGINEERING

The ground

Grading, drainage, site work and the structures that hold a hillside lot still. The part nobody photographs and everything else depends on.

B — GENERAL BUILDING

The building

Whole houses, additions and remodels. Their workers’ compensation policy is written on a carpentry classification, so the framing crew is their own.

C-12 — EARTHWORK & PAVING

The flatwork

Driveways, walkways, patios and pads. A separate license in its own right, and the reason the concrete does not wait on a subcontractor.

An infinity-edge pool set into a concrete deck on top of a ridge. The
water runs to a vanishing edge with nothing beyond it but oak-dotted
hills, vineyard rows and open valley to the horizon under a clear sky.
A teak lounger sits at the left. — An infinity edge only works if the ground under it never moves.

The view is the easy part

A pool on a ridge is an engineering problem wearing a nice hat. The deck has to sit dead level against a slope that wants to shed, the edge has to hold a straight line a quarter inch out of true would ruin, and the water has to go somewhere in February.

This is the case for hiring the A license and the B license from the same person. When the grading and the structure are one contractor’s problem, there is nobody to point at.

A wide curved concrete walkway, freshly finished in a warm brown, sweeping
from the foreground up to the covered entry of a yellow craftsman-style
house. Forms, lumber and buckets lie either side and two crew members
work near the porch under a bright sky. — Mid-job. Forms out, broom finish on, the site still a site.

What a job looks like before it is finished

Most contractors only show you the last day. This is a walkway being poured and finished on a live site, with the forms still stacked and the crew still on it.

The curve is the tell. A straight path is a morning; a sweeping one has to be formed, and the finish has to carry across the bend without a seam showing where the work stopped.

Three garage bays clad in reclaimed timber of varied tone and grain, set
into smooth tan stucco walls under a deep timber eave, with black
gooseneck barn lights mounted above each opening. — Reclaimed timber, stucco and a deep eave. Three bays, no two boards alike.

And the part people actually touch

Reclaimed boards are harder to hang than new ones. Every piece is a different thickness and a different color, so the layout has to be worked out on the ground before anything is fixed, and the run still has to line through across three openings.

It is a small thing on a big build. It is also the thing a visitor stands next to.

The license, in full

Anyone can check this in about thirty seconds, and you should.

License number: 868074
Classifications: A · B · C-12
Status: Current and active
Issued: November 21, 2005
Expires: April 30, 2027
Entity: Corporation
Contractor’s bond: $25,000, American Contractors Indemnity
Workers’ compensation: Endurance Assurance, to March 2027

Verified against the California State License Board record on September 14, 2026. Check it yourself at cslb.ca.gov. The record carries no suspensions, no bond cancellation and no judgments. The bond was filed in July 2026 and the workers’ compensation policy renewed in March 2026, written on carpentry and clerical classifications. The qualifying individual on the license is Aaron Scott Peel. The three classifications shown are A General Engineering, B General Building and C-12 Earthwork and Paving.

Why this page exists

Aaron, you don’t know me. I’m Matthew, and I build websites for contractors on the Central Coast. I built this one before asking, because it is easier to look at a real page than to listen to a pitch.

Here is what I noticed, and it is the whole reason I picked you. You have a Facebook page with a few hundred followers and years of finished work on it. Your Google listing does not link to it. Where the website goes, the listing just says “Add website”, so somebody who finds you the way most people find a contractor gets a phone number and nothing else.

That is a strange gap, because the work is already photographed. Every picture on this page came off your own Facebook. I did not have to ask you for anything or invent a single thing to fill a page.

One thing I left out on purpose. There is no rating and no testimonial section anywhere here. Your Google listing has exactly one review, it is seven years old, and it has no writing in it, just a star. I am not going to build a page that leans on that, and I would rather tell you than quietly pad it out. If you have customers who would write something, that is the single biggest thing missing.

Everything here came from public sources: your own photographs and your license record from the state. The colors are sampled off your own sky and concrete rather than picked out of the air. Nothing is stock and nothing is invented. If a detail is wrong, it is wrong because I read it wrong, and I’d want to know.

$950 flat if you want it, live in about a week on your own domain, and you own everything: the domain, the files, all of it. If it is not for you I will take it down, no hard feelings.

Matthew
(805) 457-3562

They dig it, build it and finish it.