Brian Collins

Fifty permits, almost all of them the small electrical jobs that keep an older house working: service upgrades, hard-wired smoke and carbon monoxide combos, circuits for bathroom and basement renovations, a central air addition, a storm emergency repair. Brian Collins works as an electrician out of a Swampscott PO box, and the permit trail runs from the North Shore down through Boston, Dorchester and Braintree, including two Marblehead permits in 2024. The work is not purely residential. The same record includes sign and awning lighting for a Braintree storefront, a Boston print shop, changing rooms in an educational building, a Burlington music-school fit-out, and a 12.71kW rooftop solar array approved in Longmeadow in 2025 — about a hundred miles from the listed base, so worth asking how far he actually travels. One thing to settle first: BuildZoom flags his profile with an alert reading 'no active license on file' and scores it zero on that basis. Massachusetts electricians are licensed by the state, so ask him for his current licence number and check it directly with the Division of Occupational Licensure before booking. There is also no customer account of his work anywhere published — no reviews on any source — and the only contact address on file is a PO box rather than a street address. For a small residential electrical job on the North Shore he is a plausible call, but do the licence check and ask for a couple of recent customer references yourself.