Cote & Foster Contracting, Inc.

Cote & Foster Contracting is a Methuen-based general contractor that Steve Cote and Bill Foster — lifelong friends who both graduated from Greater Lawrence Technical School — built together, and the numbers back up the decades: BuildZoom's permit records alone show 100 completed projects across Methuen, Chelmsford, Newburyport, Lowell, Revere and Salisbury, ranging from $6,000 repairs to a $297,000 addition, earning the company a BuildZoom score in the 78th percentile of Massachusetts contractors. The company works across full custom homes, additions, kitchen and bath remodeling, second stories and historic restoration, plus windows, siding and roofing, serving the Merrimack Valley and North Shore of Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active and registry-verified, and BBB rates it A+. There's only one written review on file, but it's a substantial one: in July 2026, a customer described Cote & Foster building their home and having every person on the team — not just the principals — be helpful, honest and supportive through the design decisions, including telling them plainly when a choice wasn't going to age well. The customer said they'd chosen the company after seeing its work already standing in their own neighborhood. Beyond that single review, the company's footprint shows up mostly in project records and directory listings rather than customer write-ups — 16 project galleries on Houzz, a Methuen Chamber of Commerce membership, and a listed role as lead builder for a Habitat for Humanity Merrimack Valley Builders' Blitz. Given how few written reviews are public relative to the volume of completed work, it's worth asking for references from recent, similarly-scoped projects before signing a contract.