Joel Macario Construction

Forty-one building permits, and the bulk of them are roofs, siding and decks. That is the shape of Joel Macario Construction — a six-person Lynn outfit that the Better Business Bureau files under the name MAC Exterior Solutions, with the alternate name Mac Construction and Remodeling, Inc. and Joel Macario listed as president. BBB puts its start date at August 2010. The work is exterior rather than interior: asphalt, metal, TPO and natural slate roofs, copper roof and gutters, PVC trim, skylights, windows, and deck design, construction and repair. BuildZoom's permit history lines up with that — 41 permitted projects, ten of them in the past three years, at a typical permit value near $20,500, including two 2024 siding permits on Green Street in Marblehead. Its BBB page is an A+ and has been accredited since October 2017, and the three customer comments there run positive about roofing and siding work. Three comments across two sources is a thin history to judge from, so read that praise as a starting point rather than a verdict — BuildZoom, for its part, says it has collected no reviews for this contractor at all. One thing to settle before you sign anything: the licence. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts construction supervisor licence, CS-110219, under Joel Macario personally and calls it active as of May 2026 — that is the directory's claim, not a confirmation from the state. Ask for the licence and home improvement contractor registration numbers directly and check them with the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. A reasonable call for a roof strip-and-replace, a siding job or a deck rebuild on the North Shore, with enough permitted work behind it to show the crew is genuinely active. Ask for a couple of recent local references, since so little of this company's history is written down anywhere public.