Bray Builders Ltd

Sixty-six permits, and read the descriptions and they say almost the same thing over and over: remove and replace the windows, strip the siding, hang the new clapboard. Bray Builders Ltd works out of Glen Street in Rowley, and whatever its directory listing advertises about kitchens and basements, the permit trail is an exterior-envelope business — windows, doors, vinyl and wood siding, gutters, the occasional roof. Marblehead shows up repeatedly. Permits pulled there in 2022 and 2023 cover a 22-window replacement on Ruby Avenue, 14 windows plus 21 squares of siding on Girdler Road, 11 windows on Haley Road. The same pattern repeats up and down the North Shore and into Malden, Melrose, Burlington and Boston, with a typical job around $12,000 and thirteen permits in the last three years, the most recent in June 2025. The registration is the thing to settle before signing anything. Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration 106551, held under the exact name BRAY BUILDERS, LTD., is expired according to the state. BuildZoom separately lists a newer registration, 176467, as active with an issue date of August 2025, along with construction supervisor licence CS-071472 — but those are the directory's records, not a state confirmation, and the number the registry actually returned is the lapsed one. Window and siding work is not one of the trades Massachusetts exempts from registration, and registration is what gives a homeowner access to the state Guaranty Fund, so ask for the current number and check it yourself with the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. One more wrinkle worth knowing: the listing names two owners, Dermot Bray and Anthony Culcasi, which is worth clarifying if you want to know who actually runs your job. Nobody has written a review. BuildZoom, the only place this company surfaces, states it has none, and the score of 101 it prints comes from permit history rather than from any customer. So what you can lean on is a long, pulled-permit record of replacement windows and siding across the North Shore — and nothing at all about how the jobs went. Ask for addresses of recent Marblehead work and go look at it.