Consolidated Contractors

Consolidated Contractors is a Needham-based general contractor run by Scott Harris, whose written record is thin and split — three reviews from 2015 to 2017, and a stark difference between them. In a detailed 2015 review, a Wellesley homeowner described roughly $40,000 in ice-dam water damage restoration, done under the name Consolidated Contractor Flood Restoration, calling the crew professional and accommodating enough to work around her while she continued living in the house and trying to sell it. A 2016 local news article separately described Scott Harris walking engineering students through the design and energy-efficient materials on a new-construction home. Two later reviews, both from late 2017, describe the opposite kind of problem: one says the owner failed to pay a subcontractor for work done about a year earlier and then disconnected his phone; the other, from the same period, warns vendors directly that Scott Harris does not pay his contractors. Neither review concerns the quality of work delivered to a homeowner — both are about payment to people working for the company — but they're specific enough, from named accounts, to raise before hiring. There's nothing on file after 2017, so treat this as a dated, thin and mixed picture rather than a current read — worth asking directly about ongoing subcontractor relationships and payment practices.