Mark H. Driscoll

A $675,925 whole-interior renovation on Kenneth Road. A $402,800 rear addition enlarging a kitchen on Westledge Road. A $239,000 kitchen and two bathrooms on Central Street. Mark Driscoll's Marblehead permits are not repair jobs — they are the kind of project people move out of the house for. He has been at it a long time. The Better Business Bureau records M.H. Driscoll Building & Remodeling, LLC as trading since 1 January 1991 and incorporated in 2002, run from 28A Anderson Street by Mark H Driscoll with Kimberly Driscoll as office manager and three employees on the books. It has held BBB accreditation since September 2011 and carries an A+ grade with no complaints or government actions published against it. The work is deep rather than wide. A 2022 permit at 135 Front Street covers an interior renovation taking in the kitchen and three bathrooms plus windows and roof shingles, with a separate 2021 filing to cut a section of ledge out of that same basement. In 2021 he replaced siding, four Andersen windows and a front entry door on Pitman Road. In Beverly, a $288,200 job added a one-storey addition off an existing slab, enclosed part of the front porch into a mudroom entry and renovated the kitchen. The company also says it runs its own cabinet shop, which is unusual for a three-person outfit and matters if you want built-ins made rather than ordered. Worth knowing: only two permits have been filed in the last three years, so the pace has slowed from the run of large jobs in 2021 and 2022. And there is no customer commentary anywhere — no rating, no review, not one written account of what it was like to work with him. The A+ and the accreditation say the BBB file is clean; they do not say anything about how a kitchen turned out. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration, 173776, and a Construction Supervisor licence, CS-072141, both in his own name and both shown as active — the normal pair for a builder doing structural work. Neither was confirmed against the state registry here, so ask for both numbers and check them yourself, the registration with Consumer Affairs and the supervisor licence with Public Safety. For a Marblehead homeowner planning a large renovation or an addition, this is the profile of an established local builder with a genuine record of that exact work. Ask to see two or three of the recent projects and speak to those owners — with no reviews published, personal references are the only way to hear from past clients.