Boyd Builders, Inc.

A $424,965 kitchen expansion in Wenham sits at the top of Boyd Builders' permit list, and the rest of it is the everyday North Shore work homeowners call about: basement finishes, bathroom renovations, window and door replacements, a shed dormer — nine permitted jobs across Essex, Wenham, Danvers, Rowley, Manchester, Topsfield and Beverly. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active on the state registry. The company tells its own start plainly: Nate Boyd founded it in 2011 after starting as a summer laborer on Hamilton crews and working years as a lead carpenter, with his brother Zach joining at the beginning — they shared a truck and kept their tools in their mother's Gloucester garage. Zach, a third brother Josh, and a family friend named James now lead the crew, and the company says it has two full-time office staff and a 2,500-square-foot workshop. The work it advertises is whole-home renovation and the pieces around it: kitchens, decks, siding, flooring and preservation work, across Beverly, Essex, Danvers, Hamilton and Wenham. If you have an older Essex County house that needs a kitchen opened up, a basement finished or a dormer framed, this is the shape of builder for it. Ask which of them runs your job day to day, get the schedule and material allowances in writing, and ask to walk a finished project of the same kind before you sign.