Forty Six Construction and Cleaning Inc.

Four hundred and one jobs booked through Thumbtack, and the work behind them runs from hanging a mailbox to laying a basement floor. Forty Six Construction and Cleaning Inc. works out of Lowell, and its Thumbtack profile is the whole of its public paper trail — four employees, a background-checked owner, and a service list stretching across general contracting, carpentry, interior painting, drywall, flooring, gutter cleaning, pressure washing and basement finishing. That breadth is the through-line. This is the outfit you call when a job is too small for a general contractor and too varied for a specialist, and Thumbtack has twice named it a Top Pro — in 2022 and again in 2025. The rating is worth reading past its headline. The 4.6 average sits on 161 ratings, but the star bar underneath is split rather than smooth: 88 percent at five stars and 10 percent at one. That one-star tenth is roughly sixteen customers, and none of their accounts are readable on the page, so what went wrong for them stays unknown. Nothing readable is recent, either — the reviewable history stops in 2025. Two smaller things to square before booking. The profile states its own tenure twice and differently, seven years in one place and eight in another. And the person answering customers signs as George, while the background-check credential is in the name Diogenes Cavalcanti Avelino — plausibly the same man, but worth knowing who you would be contracting with. The right call for an accumulated household to-do list, especially repairs and installations spanning several trades in one visit. Before booking anything larger, ask about that one-star tenth in the company's own words and get the scope in writing for work running beyond a single day.