Ark Builders Inc

Ark Builders Inc is a small Sharon-based general contractor run by Stanislav Naumov, and the state registry confirms it directly: Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration 170496 is active and held in the company's own name, ARK BUILDERS INC. That is the credential Massachusetts requires for residential home improvement work, verified rather than self-reported. The work itself is full-scope renovation. Seven permitted projects are on file, four of them in the last two years, and they range from a $228,000 gut renovation in Brookline — new subfloor, two bathrooms, a kitchen, air conditioning, flooring, drywall, woodwork and three replacement radiators — down to rot repair in Sharon. A $65,000 Needham job shows the exterior side of the business: fifteen squares of shakes swapped for vinyl, a three-season room rebuilt with two new vinyl sliding windows and PVC trim, and a new 14-by-16 composite deck. Elsewhere there is a strip-and-reroof in Needham Heights, a $72,000 Brookline condo renovation, fire-damaged framing rebuilt in Dunstable with four skylights and spray-foam insulation, and a $20,800 permit at 17 Gerald Road in Marblehead in 2022. What customers say is consistent but sparse. Google shows a 5-star average from four ratings, and only two of those carry a written review. The more detailed one, written in 2021, described hiring the company for a full kitchen and bathroom renovation down to the studs plus hardwood flooring throughout, and singled out Stas the owner as an excellent craftsman who was reliable, easy to communicate with, and who brought his own suggestions to the plans. A 2024 review described a property renovation as professional, accurate and delivered on time. Those two accounts read as genuine rather than manufactured — they are three years apart, differ sharply in length, and the longer one names the owner and itemises the actual assemblies. But two written reviews is a thin base, and the honest position is that the record is too small to say much about consistency across many jobs, or about how the company handles a project that goes wrong. Ark Builders is a sensible shortlist candidate for a gut kitchen or bathroom, a whole-condo renovation, or exterior work like siding, windows and decking on the South Shore or in the Boston suburbs. Given the small review base, ask for two or three recent client references you can call, confirm HIC registration 170496 yourself with the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, and get liability and workers' compensation certificates before work starts.