Chapin Quality Home Repairs

Chapin Quality Home Repairs is a Marblehead outfit at 48 Front Street, listed under the name John Chapin. Almost nothing about it has been written down publicly — no customer reviews anywhere, from anyone. The one thing on file is a credential question, and it is the thing to raise first. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts registration numbered 145613 against this business with an expiration date of 14 February 2007, describes it as inactive, and says the status was at one point cancelled. BuildZoom also gives the company a score of zero, and says plainly that the zero is there because it could not verify an active licence rather than because of anything a customer reported. BuildZoom is not the state, and it contradicts itself on what kind of licence that number even is: its write-up calls 145613 a general contractor licence while its own licence block labels the same number Home Improvement Contractor. Neither version has been confirmed against the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation here. So there is no basis to judge the work either way. If you are considering them, ask John Chapin directly for a current HIC registration number and check it yourself with Mass.gov Consumer Affairs before any money changes hands — that matters most on remodeling and addition work, where registration is not optional. Ask for recent local references too, since there are none to read.