Chahine Contracting Services

Ten permitted projects and exactly two customer reviews, the newer of them written in 2017. Chahine Contracting Services works out of Methuen, and on its Houzz profile describes itself as a general contractor run by Fadi, licensed since 2005 and insured, covering roughly two dozen Merrimack Valley towns. The written accounts are old but real. In a 2015 review, a homeowner described a porch Fadi built from AZEK, finished on time and looking the way they wanted; a 2017 reviewer left a shorter note calling the crew friendly and helpful. Both are five stars, and Google shows 5★ from 2 ratings in total. BuildZoom has collected no reviews at all, so what fills the gap there is permit history: ten permitted projects on file, one of them within the past three years at $20k–$50k. Licensing is the thing to settle before you call. BuildZoom lists the company's Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #175148, as inactive — expired 01-10-2025 by its account, still expired when it re-checked on 03-25-2026 — and lists construction supervisor licence CS-094057 as inactive as well, which is why it scores the company a 0. Houzz carries that same CS-094057 number as the company's own credential. Neither directory is a state-registry check, so ask for current licence and insurance certificates directly, and confirm #175148 with the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation yourself. This reads as a small, long-running remodeling outfit with a thin public trail rather than a troubled one. If you are weighing them for a bathroom, kitchen or porch job, the sensible next step is references from work done in the last year or two plus paperwork you can verify — the reviews on file are a decade old and cannot speak for how the crew works today.