D.A. McDougall General Contracting LLC

The first thing to check with D.A. McDougall General Contracting LLC of 43 Pleasant Ave, East Bridgewater is its registration. The Massachusetts registry holds Home Improvement Contractor registration #185371 in the company's own name and returns it expired — BuildZoom puts the expiry date at 31 May 2018 and says the registration was at one point cancelled. In Massachusetts that registration is what stands behind a homeowner on a residential job, and it is also why BuildZoom scores the company 0: it cannot verify an active licence. Anyone considering this firm should ask for a current registration certificate and proof of insurance first, and stop there if neither can be produced. The work it advertises is remodeling — kitchens, bathrooms, basements, whole-home projects and additions — and it is run by owner Donald McDougall. The visible project history is one permit: a $14,300 basement finish at 8 Dunbar Ln in Scituate, pulled in July 2017. There are no customer reviews anywhere the search reached, so nothing describes how its jobs went. Between a registration that lapsed eight years ago and a permit record that stops in 2017, the honest read is that this company's public trail went cold a long time ago — confirm it is still trading and currently registered before going any further.