Burnham Construction

Thirty-one years in business and not one published customer review anywhere — that is the shape of Burnham Construction Co., Inc. of Gloucester. The company was incorporated on the first day of 1995, and its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active. Its BBB page carries an A+ grade, though the company is not BBB accredited. The firm describes itself as family-run: Scott Burnham is president, his son Pete works as project superintendent, and the site names his wife Pattie and nephew Owen in the business too. It says it builds custom homes and handles remodels, duplexes, waterfront work and the occasional restaurant or business fit-up, and lists Gloucester, Ipswich, Hamilton, Essex, Marblehead, Andover, North Andover and Lynnfield as the towns it works in. Houzz shows four project galleries — Gloucester, Essex and Marblehead — and Houzz classifies it under additions, basement remodeling and accessory dwelling units. What there is of an independent trail comes from permits: BuildZoom counts eight, spread from 2008 to 2020, mostly interior remodels and porch work in Beverly, Arlington, Rowley, Acton and Melrose. BuildZoom also lists a construction supervisor licence for the company, and an older home improvement registration marked inactive — worth asking about, along with the fact that BuildZoom shows a different Gloucester address and phone number than the company's own site and its BBB file. So this is a long-established, properly registered Cape Ann builder with no written word from the people who hired it. If you are considering them for a whole-house project, ask for references and addresses from recent jobs and go look at the work yourself — there is nothing online standing in for that.