Daniel R Cowern
Local business · 32 Bancroft St
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- Not rated by the BBB
Highlights
- Residential permit history — 25 permits, mostly additions and multi-room remodels
- Range of job types — basements, baths, kitchens, decks, two roofs
- Works across eastern MA — Brookline and Dorchester to Newburyport
- Suspended permit listed — 2023 North Attleboro job flagged as unpermitted start
- No customer reviews — BuildZoom says it has received none
- Conflicting licence records — one number active, another shown cancelled
- Score is permit-based — the 104 reflects permits, not homeowners
- Phone on listing — second advertised number is BuildZoom's advisor line
Twenty-five permits, zero reviews. Daniel R Cowern's BuildZoom page is a paper trail rather than a reputation — but the trail is unusually legible: finished basements with full baths, home additions, multi-room and bath/kitchen remodels, deck rebuilds and a couple of roof jobs, scattered from Brookline and Dorchester out to Boylston, Newburyport and a garage-loft renovation in Methuen. BuildZoom's own breakdown puts most of the work in additions and multi-room remodels. He runs it as a sole owner-operator out of 32 Bancroft St in Milford. BuildZoom scores him 104, which reads like a grade but is calculated from permit history — the page says plainly it has never received a review for him. One item deserves a direct question. BuildZoom lists a North Attleboro building permit from September 2023, BP-23-761, as suspended, with the description "3rd floor renovation started by contractor with no permit." The page does not say which contractor started that work, so nothing there establishes it was him — but it sits on his profile, and it is fair to ask him about it. The licensing picture is cluttered. BuildZoom shows construction supervisor licence CS-118572 as active, saying it checked in June 2026, and separately shows a second number, CSFA-106514, as cancelled, alongside a Newton entry marked "License Not Verified / Status Active" against a November 2024 expiration. None of that has been checked against the state registry here, so treat all of it as the directory's claim. If you call, use (774) 386-5571 — the other number on that page is BuildZoom's own advisor line, not his. Ask about the North Attleboro permit, confirm the construction supervisor licence with the state yourself, and ask for a few homeowner references, since none are published anywhere.
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What does carpentry work cost in Greater Boston?
Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from Daniel R Cowern. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
A typical single-level deck is 12×16 — about 200 sq ft.
Estimated range
$7,750 – $14,500
Typical carpentry project around $11,100