M H Driscoll Building & Remodeling, LLC

Twenty-one building permits and one written review — that lopsidedness is the first thing to know about M.H. Driscoll Building & Remodeling. This is a Marblehead firm whose paper trail runs through town hall rather than through review sites. The company runs its own cabinet shop and describes itself as a builder and remodeler doing new construction, additions, kitchen and bath renovations, custom carpentry, and work on antique and waterfront homes across the North Shore. Mark H. Driscoll owns and runs it; the site says he is on site every step of the way with a long-tenured core crew, and BBB lists an office manager and three employees. It has been BBB Accredited since September 2011, carries an A+ grade, and is a member of the Marblehead Chamber of Commerce. The permit record is the substance here. BuildZoom's page shows 21 permitted projects, and the Marblehead work is genuine renovation scale: a $402,800 one-story addition to enlarge a kitchen in 2023, a $675,925 whole-interior renovation with a new lower-level deck in 2022, and a $239,000 kitchen and two-bathroom job in 2021. Two of those permits were filed in the past three years. BuildZoom also lists a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration and a construction supervisor licence for the company — the directory's own listing, not something confirmed against the state registry. What is nearly absent is the customer's voice. Google's average is 2.3 across three ratings, and the only written review, posted in May 2026, is a single line about poor driving skills — a complaint about a truck, not about a finished kitchen. That is thin and unflattering, and it deserves neither dismissal nor much weight. The tenure story does not settle either: the site says Mark Driscoll founded the business in 1986 and elsewhere says over 30 years, while BBB records a business start of 1991 and an LLC incorporated in 2002. For a substantial Marblehead renovation, the permits show a firm that has worked at that scale, repeatedly, in this town. Ask for references from the last two or three jobs — the written record here is a single line — and check the registration number against the state registry yourself before signing.