Essex County Construction LLC

Essex County Construction is a small Haverhill outfit whose pitch reaches further than its paper trail. The company describes itself as a construction manager for ground-up builds, redevelopments and multi-phase projects, while the permits filed under its name run $4,400 to $8,900 — an office partition in Lowell, a kitchen cabinet swap in Methuen. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #198552, is active. The business works out of 38 Washington St, is listed with owners Eric Gigliotti and Rob Landry, belongs to the Haverhill Chamber of Commerce, and carries a BuildZoom score of 90 — just above the midpoint of Massachusetts contractors. The work it puts on display is bread-and-butter and close to home: attic storage space, concrete repair, a porch repainted with new railings, a basement cleaned and painted, a small bathroom remodel, nearly all in Haverhill. Its own site adds roofing, masonry, decks, fencing and apartment turnovers, and it names Lawrence, Methuen, Newburyport, Georgetown and Groveland alongside Haverhill as the towns it covers. The gap is reputation. Neither its Houzz nor its BuildZoom profile carries a customer review, and the only public score anywhere is a lone 5-star Google rating; the review history behind it reaches back to 2021 and amounts to a single comment. That is not a mark against the work — it is simply too little for anyone to lean on. A reasonable call for the kind of repair-and-refresh job its portfolio actually shows: a deck, a porch, a bathroom, an apartment turnover between tenants. Before signing, ask for addresses of recent finished jobs you can walk past, and if the conversation turns to a ground-up build or a multi-phase redevelopment, ask what they have completed at that scale — the permits on file are considerably smaller.