John Hinchey

John Hinchey works out of Swampscott, and every permit on file is in Marblehead — a $137,850 kitchen on Ida Road in 2023, a bathroom on Preston Beach Road, and two 2022 permits at one Sagamore Road house covering cabinets, french doors, a new bathroom, then raising collar ties and rehanging sheetrock in the primary bedroom. Small operation, repeat clients, one town. His Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #175829, is active and held in his own name. The written record is thin and it is old. A single review, posted in March 2020, describes a top-to-bottom renovation of the writer's home and calls him a craftsman who showed up on time, finished on time, wrote clear invoices and priced competitively. That is a genuinely detailed account — but it is six years old, and nothing has been written since, so there is nothing current to tell you how he works today. One thing to raise directly: a Construction Supervisor licence in his name, CS-113140, is listed as inactive and at one point cancelled. That licence is what allows structural work to be permitted in Massachusetts, and his own permit history includes exactly that kind of job — raising collar ties in a bedroom. Ask who holds the CSL on your project and confirm the number with the Department of Public Safety. He suits a homeowner on the North Shore planning a kitchen, a bathroom or a whole-house renovation who wants one experienced person running it. Confirm the supervisor licence, ask for references from the last two years rather than 2020, and get the scope in writing before work starts.