G.B Coke and Sons, Inc.

Twenty-three permits and not a single review — G.B. Coke & Sons is a company you can only read through its paperwork. Gary B. Coke runs it from Clooney Terrace in West Peabody with four employees, and BBB puts the incorporation date at August 2006. The permit trail is unusually consistent about what they actually do: bathrooms, over and over, and interiors around them. Second-floor bathrooms in Newton and Newton Center, a bathroom in a Cambridge multi-family, a first-floor bathroom in Chestnut Hill, a family room with two windows replaced, new flooring with railings and a deck extension. Most of those jobs sit between $12,000 and $29,000 — real remodels, not service calls, even though the company describes its range as running from large additions down to small handyman jobs. One thing worth noticing: the permit locations cluster around inner-metro Boston — Newton, Cambridge, Arlington, Somerville, Dracut — rather than the North Shore, even though the company says it serves both. If your house is north of Peabody, ask where their recent jobs have actually been. On credentials, BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #141938, in the company's own name and says it saw it active in July 2026. It also prints an inactive City of Newton licence, #95565, twice under two different labels. Its BBB page carries an A+ grade, and the same page states the company is not BBB accredited. With no customer accounts anywhere, references have to carry the weight. Ask for two or three bathroom jobs finished in the last year that you can call about, confirm registration #141938 yourself with the Office of Consumer Affairs, and get the scope and payment schedule in writing before work starts.