Brian E Jacob

The biggest job on Brian E Jacob's permit history is a $322,000 structure raise in Nahant — lifting a house to meet flood code — filed alongside a $50,000 addition and kitchen renovation at the same Furbush Road address. Those permits run 2011 to 2013, together with a $3,000 reroof in Peabody and a laundry-room toilet and sink addition in Brookline. He works out of 17 Ames Rd in Marblehead, and his Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #165221, is active on the state registry under his own name. BuildZoom lists residential remodeling — kitchens, bathrooms, basements, whole-home renovations and additions — and scores him 91 on a scale it builds from permit history. For a homeowner around Marblehead weighing a remodel or an addition, those permits show someone who has taken on both a small bathroom-scale job and a full structural lift. Ask what he has built in the last couple of years, who does the framing and the trades on your job, and get the scope, schedule and insurance certificate in writing before anyone starts.