Alberta Balboni Construction

Thirty-three building permits on BuildZoom tell most of this company's story, and they point in one direction: kitchens and bathrooms in eastern Massachusetts houses. Alberta Balboni Construction works out of 138 Salem St in Wakefield, and BuildZoom names Garry Balboni as the owner. The permitted jobs run from a 2004 master-bedroom bathroom addition in Falmouth to a kitchen remodel in Arlington in 2022 — a $25,000 master bathroom in Middleton in 2018, a kitchen and two bathrooms with replacement windows in Framingham in 2015, bathroom work in Newton Center in 2007, a kitchen and rear porch addition in Brookline in 2008, decks in Waltham in 2019 and Everett in 2020. The biggest of them is a 2009 rear addition and interior renovation in Newton Highlands, permitted at $317,000, so the scale here goes well past a fixture swap. Some light commercial work shows up too: office partitions in Somerville, handicap toilets in Newton, front build-outs and porches in Malden. One line in that history deserves a direct question. The Middleton permit for a 2012 kitchen remodel, BP2012-36, carries the notation 'Permit fees doubled-working without permit'; the $652 fee, which covered the plumbing and electrical permits as well, was doubled and the permit issued. Ask who pulls the permits on your job and when. BuildZoom's profile also prints licence numbers for the company — two Massachusetts home improvement contractor registrations, #185822 and #105790, and a Massachusetts construction supervisor licence, #CS-051359. Look those up yourself on the state's Consumer Affairs licence search. This is a fit for a kitchen or bath renovation, or an addition, in an older eastern Massachusetts home. Before you sign, confirm the licence status with the state, get the permit responsibility written into the contract, and ask for addresses and references from recent projects.