Jeffrey Grinarml Carpenter

Twenty building permits and not one customer review — Jeffrey Grinarml Carpenter is a business you have to judge by its paperwork. The work in that paperwork is bigger than the name suggests. Permits filed between 2015 and 2022 cover a $317,539 two-storey addition with a bathroom remodel on Lafayette Street in Marblehead, a $354,023 addition-and-deck on Central Street that included demolishing a chimney, and a $295,335 gut renovation with a second-storey addition on Porter Street in Beverly. Smaller jobs run alongside them: two mudroom additions, a deck rebuilt on its original footings, storm-damage repair with two windows replaced, a basement stairway swapped for a new one, and an 80-square-foot deck on Naugus Ave framed for a future dock. Marblehead, Beverly and Salem are where nearly all of it happened. To the Better Business Bureau the company describes itself as specialising in general construction and preservation carpentry, and files under the alternate name Preservation Carpentry — which fits a permit list dominated by additions onto pre-war North Shore houses. Its BBB profile carries an A+ and states in the same breath that the business is not BBB accredited; those are two separate facts, and the second one means it has not gone through BBB's vetting process. What you cannot do is check that work against what homeowners said, because both its BBB file and its BuildZoom page carry zero customer reviews. The licensing picture needs a phone call too: BuildZoom lists three separate Massachusetts home improvement contractor numbers for this business — one shown active and issued in November 2025, two shown inactive and cancelled at some point — plus a construction supervisor number. Nothing here confirms which registration is current, so confirm it with the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation yourself. The right call if you want an addition or a whole-house remodel on an older Marblehead or Beverly home and you are willing to do the reference-checking a review page would normally do for you. Ask for the current registration number, a few recent job addresses you can drive past, and who runs the crew day to day.