Kates Construction

Kates Construction is a Cohasset design-build shop working the South Shore — Cohasset, Hingham, Scituate, Norwell and the towns around them — and its own listing puts the range plainly: jobs from $2,000 to $200,000, which spans a laundry-room rework and a whole new house. The four project galleries give some shape to that. A sunroom in Hingham, a front entryway in Scituate, a garage extension, and a laundry room and hallway redesign. The service menu runs from kitchen and bathroom remodeling and design through additions and extensions, deck and garage building, and flooring installation. Nobody has written a review. The Houzz page is the only place the company turns up and it carries none, so there is no account from a homeowner who actually hired them — which is why no rating is given here. A few things the page states are worth checking yourself. It prints licence number 98105, which has not been confirmed against the state registry. The credentials are the company's own: a Certainteed certified installer badge for siding, an Angie's List A rating, and a Top Service Provider award dating from 2013. Worth a call for a South Shore remodel quote, especially if you want one firm handling design and build. Ask for recent addresses you can drive past, and confirm the registration and insurance directly before anything is signed.