Bostonian Construction Services

Bostonian Construction Services works out of 11 Saugus Ave in Saugus, an LLC the Better Business Bureau records as started and incorporated 5/14/2015 and run by Anthony Freni. Its A+ grade there sits alongside a wide menu: kitchen and bath remodeling, frame-to-finish carpentry, roofing, patios, decks and doors on the BBB page, with masonry, tile and flooring, window replacement, drywall, demolition and new construction added across its Houzz and BuildZoom listings. Two things are worth pinning down before you hire. The licence numbers on the two directories do not agree — Houzz prints 175292, BuildZoom records 187357 for the same company — so look the business up on the Massachusetts contractor register yourself and confirm the registration before any money changes hands. And the BBB profile lists one employee while Houzz puts a typical job anywhere from $500 to $5 million, so ask who is actually on site, which subcontractors come with them, and who supervises the job. BuildZoom's page shows 5 out of 5 stars from three entries, and all three are 2017 inquiries — 'Considered for Home Remodeling', 'Considered for Office Updating' — logged when people were weighing the company, one of them a user in Atlanta. The address and the (781) 558-1927 phone number line up exactly across the BBB, Houzz and BuildZoom, so you are dealing with one consistent outfit. For a Saugus-area remodel, sort the registration out first, then get a written scope with a payment schedule tied to milestones, a certificate of insurance, and addresses from recent jobs you can go and look at.