Jim Wilson Carpentry

Jim Wilson Carpentry is a one-man carpentry business run by James J. Wilson from 6 Russell St in Amesbury, Massachusetts, working down through the Merrimack Valley and the North Shore. What is actually documented about the business is its permit trail rather than its customers. Building permits filed under this name cover a rebuilt front porch and a roofed entryway over brick stairs in Methuen, vinyl siding on the same Methuen property, and a structural job in Nahant replacing lally columns and adding a supplemental beam with new footings — work valued at around $34,000. That is a spread of framing, exterior and structural carpentry across roughly fifteen years, and it lines up with the trades the business lists: cabinets, framing, finish carpentry, deck repair, and doors and windows. No customer feedback exists to weigh. BuildZoom, the only directory carrying this business, states plainly that it has received no reviews for them, and no rating is published anywhere else. Its 'BuildZoom score' of zero is not a customer verdict — the site sets it to zero purely because it cannot confirm an active licence, and the accompanying 'Quality Alert' means the same thing. The registration is the thing to resolve before hiring. BuildZoom reports a Massachusetts licence numbered 142199 attached to this business, listed as expired since March 2012 and marked Inactive, and adds that Mass.gov's Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation records once showed it cancelled. That is the directory's account, not a verification, and it is worth taking seriously here rather than waving off: porch rebuilds, entryway additions and siding are not the kind of work Massachusetts exempts from Home Improvement Contractor registration. For a homeowner considering them, the sensible next step is to look the registration up directly with the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, ask what current registration and insurance they carry, and — because there is no review history at all to lean on — ask for references from recent jobs of a similar size.