Fraser Carpentry

Fraser Carpentry is Rodney Fraser's one-man-sounding carpentry outfit off Macon Ave in Haverhill, and the clearest picture of its work comes from town permit records rather than reviews: a $30,000 conversion of a 24x24 space above a garage into a bonus room with a three-quarter bath in Groveland, and a $12,000 exterior wall repair in Beverly, both pulled in 2023. The services it lists lean structural and finish carpentry — decks and porches, framing, doors and windows, cabinets, finish trim, deck repair. That mix, plus the bonus-room job, suggests someone comfortable taking a project from framing through the trim rather than a specialist in one narrow piece. Nobody has left a review on BuildZoom, so there is no customer track record to weigh here at all — the 96 BuildZoom score is that site's own ranking, driven largely by license and permit history, not by anyone's experience with the work. On licensing, be precise about what is and isn't known. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #209887, issued in September 2025, and says it verified that as active in April 2026. It also shows an older registration, #162172, as inactive with a status noted as cancelled at one point. That older lapse isn't automatically a problem — contractors do let a number go and re-register — but it is worth a direct question. Worth doing before you sign anything: confirm the current registration yourself through the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, ask which number he's working under now, and ask for references from recent jobs, since there's no public review history to lean on. For a deck, a porch, or a framing-and-finish project in the Merrimack Valley, the permit trail says he does real work; you'll just be doing your own diligence on the rest.