KSC Contractors

Ken Corb does the job most contractors hand off: getting the lead out of an old Massachusetts house. A 2024 customer had lead paint removed and covered in two days, and the house passed the state-mandated lead dust wipe test on the first try. KSC Contractors is Kenneth S. Corb — a Waltham sole proprietorship the BBB puts at 26 years in business, with two Massachusetts licence numbers on its profile, one from the Department of Labor Standards and one from the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. That profile carries an A+ grade, without BBB accreditation. The deleading accounts go back more than a decade and tend to involve the awkward end of the work. In a 2020 review, a homeowner in a house built in the 1700s had 15 windows replaced as part of an abatement and credited him with working through the problems nobody saw coming. A 2022 seller called him when the buyer needed a Lead Certification and the closing was under three weeks away. A 2016 customer collecting quotes from lead paint contractors — to strip cedar shakes with lead in one layer of paint — found Ken's the lowest, and a 2015 customer said he knows the regulations and the rules well enough to make the process easy on them. The lead work is not all of it. A 2015 reviewer who hired him for two large-scale carpentry and painting projects called him a perfectionist as a painter; a 2020 reviewer described a painting job finished with cleanup and post-project touchups. The BBB listing puts the rest broadly: full-service renovation, remodeling and general home repairs. The written history runs from 2013 to 2024, and the same notes recur through it — reviewers in 2014, 2016, 2021, 2022 and 2024 say the work finished on time, and a 2016 customer appreciated getting a quote rather than an estimate, which made the budget clear before anyone started. If you have a deleading deadline tied to a sale or a rental, this is the specialist to call. Ask what the clearance testing covers and how the schedule lines up with your closing date, and settle whether the quote is a quote or an estimate.