John Q Caldwell Jr Carpentry

John Q Caldwell Jr Carpentry works out of 26 Bayberry Rd in Newburyport, and the clearest picture of it comes from the paperwork rather than from customers: ten permitted jobs on file, and not a single review anywhere. The permit trail is the interesting part. It runs from 1996 to 2011 and reads like a working carpenter's decade and a half — a two-family repair, window installation, kitchen cabinets, two bathrooms remodeled, a three-season porch replaced, deteriorated sills and floor joists swapped out, an $83,000 dormer-and-deck addition, and a 16-by-18 pool deck over in Methuen. BuildZoom lists the trade mix as finish carpentry, doors and windows, deck repair, cabinets, and general carpentry, which lines up with that history. What a homeowner needs to know before calling is straightforward. BuildZoom shows three separate Massachusetts registrations for this name — two home improvement contractor records, #122068 and #158811, and a construction supervisor record, CS-033730 — and lists every one of them as inactive, describing each as having been cancelled at some point. It gives an expiration date of July 1998 on the first. Those are BuildZoom's own claims and it says the information may have changed, so anyone hiring should check the current status directly with the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation and the Department of Public Safety before work starts. The BuildZoom score of zero attached to this page is not a customer rating either — it is set to zero purely because no active licence could be verified. The other thing to weigh is time. The most recent permit is from 2011, and there is no customer commentary of any kind to say what the work is like today. Confirm the business is still trading, and get the registration question settled, before you get as far as talking about a project.