Gary C Comeau

Gary C Comeau works out of Sagamore Road in Marblehead, and the trades listed for the business are the big interior jobs: kitchen and bathroom remodels, basement conversions, whole-home renovations and additions. The volume behind that list is small. Only four permitted projects are on file under the name — a thin trail for a remodeler doing rooms and additions, and nowhere near enough to say how the work turns out. No homeowner has written about the business anywhere we could find, so there is nothing about crews, schedules, budgets or finish quality to pass along. The part that deserves a direct question is the licensing. Four separate Massachusetts records tied to this name are shown as inactive or cancelled: two Home Improvement Contractor registrations, numbered 117750 and 141083, and two Construction Supervisor licences, CS-062996 and CS-055528. In Massachusetts, HIC registration is what puts a homeowner inside the Guaranty Fund on a remodel or addition, and a Construction Supervisor licence is what allows a permit to be pulled on structural work — so lapsed status on both is a live practical issue, not paperwork trivia. Two different HIC numbers appearing for one name also means the history here needs untangling rather than assuming. Before signing anything, ask for a current HIC registration number and a current CS licence number and check both yourself at the state's Consumer Affairs and Public Safety registries. Ask who will actually pull the permit for your job. And ask for two or three completed local projects you can call, because at this point the permit history is essentially the whole story.