Frank Lento & Sons Inc

Frank Lento & Sons is a Salem electrical contractor whose record is entirely permits — seven of them, and no customer has written a word about the work anywhere. The recent filings are steady and unglamorous, which for an electrician is usually a good sign. In May 2024 the company pulled a permit covering a ten-unit building in Buzzards Bay: added outlets, baseboard heaters reinstalled, a circuit run for split air conditioning, and a fuse panel replaced. In July 2024 it filed for basement electrical work at a house on Valley Road in Nahant, and in February 2024 for wiring five receptacles at a commercial address in Boston. Older Beverly jobs from 2015 and 2016 show a wider range — a finished basement with drop ceiling and lighting, two deck and porch builds with the wiring that went with them, and kitchen outlets moved to fit new cabinets. The licensing picture is the thing to raise first. BuildZoom lists a master electrician number, 10842, whose last recorded expiry was July 2016, and shows four further Massachusetts entries — an electrical business registration, two electrician numbers and, oddly, an architect record — all marked inactive and at one point cancelled. It also prints a 'no active license on file' alert. Those are the directory's records rather than a check against the state board, and licence data of this kind is frequently stale or muddled, but the gap between 2024 permits and a 2016 expiry is worth putting to them directly. Useful to call for everyday residential and small commercial electrical work — panels, circuits, outlets, basement wiring — of the kind the permits show. Before any work starts, ask for the current Massachusetts master electrician and electrical contractor numbers and check them against the state board, and get a certificate of insurance. There is no published customer account to lean on.