Locke Construction Company

Locke Construction has been remodeling houses on the South Shore since 1994 — 32 years, four employees, and the same owner, Stephen R. Locke, running it as a sole proprietorship out of Pembroke. Its BBB accreditation dates to July 1998, and the grade is A+. Holding that for that long is the most durable thing on the page. The work is the full-remodel kind: kitchens and baths, flooring, custom cabinetry, additions and decks, plus new construction, with whole-home and basement remodels listed alongside. The permit file speaks to scale more than volume — 23 permitted projects, three of them in the past three years, valued between $20,000 and $100,000. BuildZoom scores the business 98, the 84th percentile of the Massachusetts contractors it tracks. Written customer accounts are scarce. A recent BBB review describes a living-room remodel that involved removing a load-bearing wall and started on time, which is a useful detail — structural work and an honest start date are exactly what goes wrong on jobs like that. BuildZoom carries no reviews. On licensing, BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #118719, and a construction supervisor licence, #CS-064514, both active and both verified by the directory as of July 2026. Those are BuildZoom's checks rather than the state's, so confirm the numbers with the registry before you sign anything. For a structural remodel or an addition on the South Shore — the sort of job where a wall comes out and the schedule matters — this is a small, long-established shop whose listed credentials fit the work. Ask for a few recent client references and pin down the start date in writing.