Local business · Lawrence, MALocal business · 0 Farley St, Lawrence, MA 01843, USA
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There is very little written about ENCORE Contracting Services, and most of what there is comes from one unhappy customer. Its Google profile averages 3.0 across two ratings: a two-word 'Loved it' in February 2024, and a long complaint in September 2025. That September 2025 account describes two jobs — a bay window installation and a deck. The customer writes that the estimate was pitched as higher than most but better value for the money, that the bay window work went badly, and that the contractor subcontracted the framing to a company he had never met or spoken to directly, dealing through an intermediary instead. Those are the customer's words, and no reply to them appears. The paperwork is worth checking too. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, number 206978, is recorded in the state registry as expired. BBB lists the business under Home Builders at 375 Common St in Lawrence, started in 2015 with four employees and Facundo Bergallo as president, but issues no rating at all, saying it does not have sufficient information to do so. That is the whole public record. It is not enough to conclude the company does poor work — and nowhere near enough to conclude the opposite. If you are considering them, ask for a current registration number and check it against the state registry yourself, ask for three jobs finished in the last year that you can call, and get every subcontractor named in writing before anything starts.
Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from ENCORE Contracting Services, INC.. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
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$23,000 – $35,000
Typical remodeling project around $29,000
Encore Contracting Contracting Services, INC. Lawrence MA. AH contractor. Two projects, a bay window installation according to a photo given to A.H. and a deck. A.H. promoted his estimate as being higher than most but gives customer the best. As far as the bay window project it was the worst. A.H. told me that there would be no problem in construction. He hired a framing company that had its own idea how to install the bay window. Problem was he did not directly talked with the framing company (in fact he never met them as told to me by the framing company); he directly talked with the middle man who did the hiringof the framing company. What was framed was a dormer that I did not expect and the placement of the bay window in this dormer was ridiculous, even one of the framers said it did not make sense. I told this to the framer, and framer said that he gets his instructions from the contractor A.H. and not me. And he had not been in contact with the contractor except for the middleman. Emailed A.H. about what was happening; A.H. told me to take photos and send to him. A.H. was angry with what he saw and complained about the lack of communication that led to what happened. A.H. said that what was planned to happen was discussed with the middleman and what happened was nothing even close to whast was discussed. A.H. did not offer to rectify the error, that is the installation of the bay window as shown in the photo given to him. He had the bay window installed in the framed dormer. Size of the bay window was decreased as well. So I was stuck with a dormer that I did not want and smaller bay window. The quality of the construction was poor only because it was something I did not ask for, the installation of the bay window was poorly done. There were other problems that occurred with the projects as well. A.H. never came to do a checklist of the two projects with me. I would never recommend Encore Construction Services, Lawrence, MA, AH Contractor, completely unreliable.
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