Jay D Smith Carpentry Contractor

Jay D Smith Carpentry Contractor runs out of a Saugus P.O. box, and the construction permits attached to it are exterior carpentry at a real scale: a $46,129 deck replacement in Rockport in 2024, a strip-and-reroof plus new siding and windows at another Rockport address the same year, and an $81,325 roof built over an existing structure in Hanover in 2021. A 2023 low-voltage job at 11 Relay Yard in Nahant sits on the list too. Thirty-nine permits are on file in all, nine of them in the past three years, with a typical permit value around $24,759 — mid-five-figure exterior projects rather than small repairs. BuildZoom scores the company 100 and puts that in the top 13% of the 139,240 licensed Massachusetts contractors it ranks. One wrinkle matters before you read anything into that page. The same BuildZoom profile stacks up several different people named Jay Smith — 'Jay D Smith', 'Jay S. Smith' and 'Jay W. Smith' are each listed separately — and the licences and permits hung on it run from carpentry to electrician to landscape architect to security systems, including dozens of commercial fire-alarm and CCTV installs scattered from Attleboro to Chelmsford. That does not fit one Saugus carpenter, so its totals and licence list are a mixed bag rather than a portrait of this business. The single entry BuildZoom says it checked is Home Improvement Contractor registration #111367, active as of June 2026 — the directory's check, not a state confirmation. Nobody has written a review of the work. Ask for the HIC number in writing, confirm it yourself with Mass.gov, and ask for references from the deck and roofing jobs specifically.