Danny Cerqueira's Construction

Danny Cerqueira's Construction has worked out of 2 Norma Way in Middleton since 2004, with Danny Cerqueira as president and eight people on the books — one of the few firms in this directory actually headquartered in the town. The permit trail is the strongest thing on file, and the work is not small: a $315,000 three-floor addition with a new kitchen and master suite on Forest St in Middleton, a $222,045 gut renovation in Charlestown, a $199,700 new single-family house built behind an existing home in Cambridge, and a $154,000 rebuild of a Peabody ranch after a kitchen fire. Sixty-two permitted projects in all, reaching Topsfield, Danvers, Beverly, Groveland, Revere and Boston. Two BBB reviewers speak to the finished-work side: one had a garage addition built and called the owner dependable, another says the crew built their home faster than expected without cutting corners. The other half of the picture is follow-through, and it repeats across three independent voices. A subcontractor wrote in January 2025 that the company owed him $9,500 and had gone quiet — "very responsive when they need the work done and non responsive when it comes to paying". A prospective client in Cambridge wrote in April 2017 that after a competitive estimate and good references he could not get Danny on the phone, the contract went unsigned and timelines kept slipping, so he hired someone else; the company replied that the job could not start until mid-summer and that no contract, permit or deposit ever existed. A third reviewer on BBB, whose review carries no date, says a deposit was paid for three replacement windows and scheduled appointments were then not kept. Settle the registration question before anything else. BuildZoom lists four separate Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor numbers for this one company — 165247, 157219, 148590 and 179867 — and marks every one inactive or at some point cancelled, which is why it shows a score of zero. That is a directory's account rather than a state check, but additions, kitchens and bathrooms are precisely the work an HIC registration governs. Ask for a current number and verify it yourself with the Office of Consumer Affairs, and put payment milestones and a schedule in writing. The BBB A+ settles nothing either way: the same profile states the business is not accredited, and BBB says plainly that customer reviews are not used in calculating the letter grade.