Alan Hayes Carpenter & Builder

Alan Hayes has pulled 51 building permits out of Beverly, and their shape says more than a star rating could: kitchens and bathrooms taken back to the frame and rebuilt, mostly around Beverly, Marblehead and Middleton, at a typical permit value near $82,000. The largest on file is a $229,450 job on Aston Way in Beverly — kitchen demolished to plan, new first-floor sliders, the second-floor bathroom torn out and a new one added. He works quietly. Houzz holds one review of him, posted in May 2021 by a client who had already used him for fourteen years across projects large and small, calling him hard working, extremely detail oriented and a pleasure to work with, with another big renovation already booked. A recommendation on his LinkedIn profile, from someone who says they hired him many times in Massachusetts, describes a master carpenter who leaves no mess behind inside an occupied house and stands behind his work. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts construction supervisor licence for one- and two-family homes and a home improvement contractor registration, both marked active — the directory's own records, not checks made against the state here. Ten of those 51 permits are from the past three years, so the work is current even where the writing about it is not. This is the call for a full kitchen or bath gut-and-rebuild on the North Shore, the kind of job measured in months and six figures rather than an afternoon. Because the written record runs to a single 2021 review and one recommendation, lean harder than usual on the old-fashioned checks: ask for two recent clients whose projects match yours in scale, walk a finished job, and confirm both licence numbers with the state yourself.