EMSLIE BUILDING AND REMODELING

Emslie Building and Remodeling has been pulling permits around MetroWest since Dave Emslie founded it in 1986 — 48 of them counted on BuildZoom, which scores the company 98, in the 84th percentile. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #188884, is active on the state registry. By the company's own account this is a family business: Dave works alongside his sons Andy and Graham, both project managers and partners, out of Framingham. The work they describe is the full residential range — additions, kitchen and bath renovations, decks, flooring and historical restorations — and their Houzz profile, which shows eight projects, extends that to basements, porches, garages and new construction. BuildZoom lists two Massachusetts construction supervisor licences, CS-044604 and CS-107567; Houzz lists CS-107567 as well. For an addition or a full kitchen or bath in a MetroWest house — an older one especially, given the historical restoration work they say they take on — this is a firm with the registration and the permit history behind it. Ask which of the three Emslies will run your job day to day, ask for addresses of recent projects you can drive past, and get the scope, the allowances and the schedule in writing before you sign.