Clifford Construction Corp

Nine reviews, and Barry Clifford's name is in every single one of them. Clifford Construction Corp is a family-owned residential builder based at 13 Lights Ln in North Billerica, and its own site claims 35-plus years and a frame-to-finish, design-build approach. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #200680, is active. What people describe hiring them for is the gut job: bathrooms and kitchens taken back to the studs. A homeowner writing in November 2023 had a full bathroom in a 1997 house done in four weeks from gut to completion and singled out the tile installer's suggestions for the niche. Another, in July 2023, described an old house that was 'rigged to the core and studs' and said the crew found it, fixed it and brought everything up to code. A 2024 reviewer had two separate bathroom problems handled over a year or two — a drainage fault where the tile floor was expertly reinstalled, then mould and poor ventilation cleaned up with proper vapour control and ventilation fitted. The consistent thread is communication, and it is specific rather than generic. One customer writing in February 2025, on their second project with the company, said Barry was in contact every day of the job. A 2023 kitchen client praised his transparency and said that when obstacles came up he offered options that kept the work inside their budget. Crew members get named by customers — Dan, Danny, Matt, Andrew — which is not something people do about a rotating cast of subcontractors. Two things are worth knowing before you call. First, the written record is shallower than the enthusiasm suggests: nine reviews in total, all on Houzz, running February 2022 to February 2025, so nothing has been written in the last eighteen months. Second, the public permit trail is almost empty — BuildZoom holds a single permit for this company, an $11,250 deck rebuilt as-is in Dunstable, completed September 2025, against 19 projects and 30 verified hires shown on Houzz. That gap is normal for interior remodeling, which often needs no permit of its own, but it means the permit record cannot corroborate the scale of work described. For a Middlesex County kitchen or bathroom remodel where you want the owner on site and talking to you daily, this is a strong fit and the registration checks out. Ask what a comparable recent job cost and how it was scheduled, and ask for a couple of 2026 addresses — the reviews are excellent but none of them is recent.