JBGC

The clearest thing about JBGC is the paper trail: 44 permitted projects on record, eight of them in the last three years, mostly kitchen and multi-room remodels at a typical permit value near $85,000. This is a Burlington general contractor built for the gut-renovation end of the work, not the afternoon repair. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active — number 188293, confirmed against the state registry. BuildZoom names Joao Baia as the owner and describes a family-owned shop, and the company says its founders brought eleven years of industry expertise into it. Its own site adds roofing, siding and windows, decks, custom homes and commercial work to the remodeling; the permit history backs up the roofing and window replacement, and it reaches from eastern Massachusetts out to Cape Cod. The ratings are unanimous to a degree worth naming: 5 stars from 27 Google ratings, 5.0 from five on BuildZoom, 5.0 from three on HomeAdvisor — thirty comments in all, running 2018 through 2025, with no complaint surfacing on any of those profiles. Read the smaller counts for what they are, though. HomeAdvisor's 5.0 rests on three April 2024 reviews, one of which HomeAdvisor itself labels a reposted Google review, so those two scores are not fully independent of each other. Two things worth pinning down. How long they have been at this depends on who you ask: BuildZoom's blurb says 7+ years in business, HomeAdvisor's highlights say 9 years of experience, and the website credits the founders with 11. And since the permit record stretches well beyond the Burlington area, ask how a crew is staffed and scheduled if your house sits at the far end of that range. For a kitchen, a bath, or a whole-floor renovation in the northern suburbs, this is a registered shop with a real permit history behind it, and it works in Portuguese and Spanish as well as English. Estimates are free and the hours are weekdays only; its HomeAdvisor listing says no warranties are offered, so get scope, schedule and any workmanship guarantee written into the contract before work starts.