La Bonte Electric

Fourteen permits on record, four of them in the last three years: La Bonte Electric is a small Haverhill electrical shop, and the permits point to steady, modest residential work rather than volume. The jobs are the recognizable ones — 200-amp service upgrades, rewiring for kitchen, bath and addition projects, wiring for new houses, underground service runs. Most sit under $20,000, spread across Merrimac, West Newbury and Newburyport, with a 2024 power change in Springfield and permits in Burlington going back to 2000. BuildZoom scores the company 90, which its own page calls the 47th percentile of Massachusetts contractors — under the 95 BuildZoom itself suggests aiming for. Three things to raise before booking. No licence number appears on the company's BuildZoom page; the licence block instead reads "License Not Required", which was the directory's own reading back in May 2022, so ask for the electrician's state licence number and look it up yourself. Several of the listed permits carry a status of "expired" rather than final or complete, which is worth asking about — how did those jobs close out? And there are no customer reviews anywhere. For a straightforward service upgrade or a rewire around Merrimac and Newburyport, the permit history shows the work has been done before, repeatedly, over years. Do the licence lookup and ask for two recent references, because there is nothing here from other homeowners to lean on.