Henderson Construction

Henderson Construction is a one-man Beverly outfit with a long paper trail and no written reviews at all — 25 permits pulled between 2008 and 2017, and not a single customer comment on any directory that carries it. Those permits sketch the shape of the business better than any marketing would. Through that decade the work was small-to-midsize residential repair and renovation around the North Shore: kitchen and bathroom remodels, porch and deck rebuilds, reroofs, vinyl siding, window and door replacements, filed in Beverly, Danvers, Peabody, Salem and once down in Cohasset. BBB lists it as a partnership started in 1987 with a single employee, and BuildZoom names Jay Henderson as owner and responsible person. Licensing is the thing to settle before anything else. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts general contractor licence, #143416, with an expiration date of 07-14-2014, and says it confirmed the licence expired when it last checked in July 2026; it also shows two Massachusetts home improvement contractor registrations, #143416 and #182616, as inactive. That is a licence that existed and lapsed, not a trade that never needed one — remodeling work of this kind requires HIC registration in Massachusetts. Directory licence records are frequently stale or attached to the wrong record, so ask Jay Henderson directly for a current registration number and check it against the state before signing anything. BBB does not rate the business and it is not accredited, which reflects a thin file rather than a complaint history — there are no complaints and no government actions on record. This is the kind of small local carpenter-builder you find by word of mouth, and nothing written down can tell you how the work went. If you call, ask for recent Beverly-area references, proof of current HIC registration and insurance, and a look at jobs finished in the last couple of years.