Allan W. Dennis

Four permits in sixteen years, and a home improvement contractor registration that has been expired since 2014. That is the entire documented trace of Allan W. Dennis, working from 8 Wheeler Place in Marblehead. The permits sketch a general handyman-to-small-builder range rather than a specialty: a first-floor half bath and laundry remodel in Danvers in 2010, a rubber roof replacement in Waltham in 2013, a deck and window job in Beverly in 2019, and an electrical service upgrade in Haverhill in 2022. BuildZoom lists him for kitchen, bathroom, basement and whole-home remodeling plus additions, but nothing in the permit record shows work at that scale. The licence is the thing to settle before anything else. Massachusetts registration number 160289 is held in his name and the state shows it expired, with an expiration date of 8 July 2014. Home improvement contractor registration is what covers non-structural residential remodeling in Massachusetts, and it is also what gives a homeowner access to the state's Guaranty Fund if a job goes wrong — so for kitchen, bath or basement work, an expired registration is a live issue, not a technicality. BuildZoom flags the same thing with an alert banner and scores the profile zero for it. No customer has written about him anywhere we could find, so there is no account of how any of these jobs went. If you are considering him, ask whether the registration has been renewed and get the current number before any work begins.