Bay View Builders

Your general contractor is likelier to hire Bay View Builders than you are. The Manchester company works as a carpentry subcontractor, and what it sells is the structure: weather-tight shells, framing, siding, exterior and interior trim, decks and porches for the builders putting up luxury and ocean-front homes on the North Shore. It says it has been doing that since 1981 — 45 years by its own count — and it puts the whole crew on the page by name: an office manager, two team leaders, three lead carpenters and two carpenters, with John O'Brien as president. Houzz files it as a carpentry contractor and home builder and puts a typical job at $100,000 to $300,000. Settle the paperwork first. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #105899, is expired on the state registry. Houzz separately lists a construction supervisor licence, CS 22477 — ask for a current certificate for each and check them on the state's own registers. For a North Shore house going up or coming back to the studs, this is a framing and trim crew to ask your builder about by name. If you want to hire directly, start by asking whether Bay View takes work from homeowners at all, then get the registration and a certificate of insurance sorted before anything is signed.