Gary D. Then

Gary Then has 88 electrical permits on file, 29 of them in the last three years, and a striking share of them are in Methuen — Adelaide Ave, Pine Tree Drive, Glenwood Ave, Ditson Place, Jayson Road, Boylston Street. The work behind those filings is the bread and butter of a residential electrician: 200-amp service upgrades, whole-house rewires, recessed lighting, and correcting code violations somebody else left behind. He trades as Then Electric, works out of Lawrence with a Methuen contact address, and the directories credit him with 16 years in the trade. A typical permit runs about $6,000, and the footprint reaches beyond the Merrimack Valley into Lowell, Waltham, Brookline, Beverly, Malden, Dorchester and Hyde Park. His rating is 4.7 across 32 reviews going back to 2017 — read that number once, not twice. Angi and HomeAdvisor publish the same 32 reviews, the same 84/16 star split and the same bodies; that is one review corpus mirrored across two sites, not two sources agreeing. The written accounts skew older, with most predating 2021, and the pattern running through them is responsiveness, fair pricing and clean work, alongside a couple of mixed accounts about the harder parts of a job. One thing to check yourself. Both directories print a trade licence — number 53666, expiring July 2028 — but that is self-reported to the directory, not confirmed against the state registry. BuildZoom, separately, attaches a lapsed Maine "Electricians Helper" registration to his profile and routes the whole page through Maine's contractor rules. That record does not fit a Massachusetts electrician who has been pulling Massachusetts electrical permits into 2025, and it is also why his BuildZoom score reads 0 — a licence-matching artifact, not a customer verdict. For panel and service upgrades, rewires and lighting around Methuen and Lawrence, the permit trail is the strongest thing he has going: real, inspected, town-filed work across nearly a decade. Before booking, ask him for his current Massachusetts electrician licence number and check it yourself with the state's Division of Occupational Licensure.