Baer Custom Carpentry

Baer Custom Carpentry is a Brewster, Cape Cod carpentry and framing contractor run by Brian N. Baer, offering custom home building, additions, and whole-house remodeling. Brian Baer personally holds an active Massachusetts construction supervisor license, verified against the state registry; separately, the company's home improvement contractor registration shows as expired in that same registry. The one detailed written account on file, a 2019 Google review, is mixed: the reviewer called the work good quality and said Baer was easy to communicate with, provided you could get him to return your call, and noted that cedar shakes installed on their Orleans home a few months earlier had already started splitting. That single account sits alongside a much stronger showing on Houzz, where the company holds a 5.0 rating from 6 reviews and 11 projects shown, plus two Houzz awards and badges — though the individual review text there isn't available to read directly. BBB lists the business as not accredited, with 10 years in business and no published rating. Given the expired HIC registration and the specific shake-splitting complaint, anyone considering a larger project should confirm current licensing directly and ask to see recent, finished work before signing on.