Dalcon Homes

Just about the whole public trace of Dalcon Homes is a permit trail. BuildZoom's page for the Haverhill company — 117 Brockton Ave, owned by Scott Dalrymple — counts 11 permitted projects, most of them residential remodels and additions in Haverhill, Merrimac and Groveland, with job values running from roughly $3,000 to $108,000. That spread is what a working small builder's year looks like: a modest exterior or bathroom job at one end, a six-figure single-family remodel at the other, spread across a tight cluster of Merrimack Valley towns rather than a wide metro. What's absent is anyone talking about the work. BuildZoom states it has never received a review for the company, so there is no customer history to weigh in either direction, and its BuildZoom score of 96 — which the site says puts the company above 80% of Massachusetts licensed contractors — is the directory's own arithmetic, not a homeowner's verdict. BuildZoom also lists a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #171791, for the business. That is the directory's record rather than a confirmation, so ask for the registration number directly and check it against the state's Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation lookup before you sign. Reasonable to call if you want a Haverhill-area remodeler whose permitted jobs you can look up town by town — but plan on doing your own reference-checking and asking for two or three recent addresses, since there are no published reviews to lean on.