ESPINO CONSTRUCTION

Percy Espino's company turns up in permit files more than on review sites: BuildZoom counts 60 projects under Espino Construction, most of them home additions across Greater Boston, and scores it 105 — the 92nd percentile on the platform's own scale. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #196323, is active on the state registry. The written accounts run back to January 2018, when a BuildZoom reviewer gave five stars for a job that covered a lot of ground — a new staircase, siding, PVC replacement soffits with venting, a replaced front door and kitchen cabinets — and described the crew as skilled and honest. Home Builder Digest, a trade publication, has written up the company's kitchen remodeling work. Houzz lists the business under building design and home remodeling with Percy Espino as the contact, puts its base in Lynn, and gives a service area of nine Greater Boston towns including Peabody; BuildZoom has it at 1 Henry Terrace in Peabody. The Houzz profile carries licence #109360, a different number from the registered one — the normal shape when a company registration and a person's licence both exist, though worth asking which is which. For an addition or exterior work — siding, soffits, a staircase, a door — this is an outfit with a long permit history behind it. Ask for a couple of recent addresses you can drive past, get the scope and allowances in writing, and look up registration #196323 on the state site before you sign.