Brian M Doherty

If you own an old house in Nahant, there is a fair chance Brian Doherty has already wired one on your street. Six of his permits are on the peninsula: knob-and-tube pulled out and existing outlets re-fed at 47 Pond St in January 2021, a sub-panel and bathroom wiring in a detached studio at 15 Fox Hill Rd in August 2020, bathroom and laundry outlets at 18 Emerald Rd in February 2022, a water-damaged service replaced at 20 Rollins Ave in March 2024, an EV charger and a broken wire at 182 Wilson Rd that April, and a GFI outlet for a water filling station on Nahant Road in July 2024. That is the shape of the whole practice — 147 permits, ten of them in the past three years, almost all renovation wiring in older homes. A $50,000 job in Brookline in July 2025 covered a kitchen, two baths, a laundry, a new master bedroom addition, attic and basement, two heat pumps and a 100-amp sub-panel. In February 2025 he rewired a kitchen, living room, dining room, sunroom and three-season porch in Belmont. Two names sit on the same Chelmsford address. BuildZoom files him as Brian M Doherty, electrician; BBB files Doherty Building & Design as a general contractor, one employee, in business since 1997, under a different phone number. Worth clarifying which entity you are contracting with. BuildZoom scores the profile 101, in the top 12% of Massachusetts contractors, and says it verified construction supervisor licence CS-057980 active in July 2026. Three Newton city registrations were last checked carrying 2022 expirations — the directory's records rather than confirmations. No customer has written about the work, so there is no rating here. Ask for his current electrician licence number and two recent references.