Maxwell Richards Electric

Twenty-nine permitted jobs, and not one customer review anywhere. That is the whole shape of Maxwell Richards Electric, a Methuen electrician whose paper trail runs through town permit offices rather than review platforms. The permit history is the real substance here. BuildZoom counts 29 permitted projects for the company, and the work behind them is ordinary residential electrical — the typical permit value sits near $3,000, the kind of number attached to swapping fixtures, adding circuits and updating a panel rather than wiring a subdivision. The number BuildZoom puts at the top of the page deserves a caveat. Its "BZ Score 97, top 18% of 139,240 Massachusetts contractors" is calculated from permit activity, not from anything a customer said — the same page states BuildZoom has received no reviews for this company at all. Read it as a measure of how much permitted work they pull, and nothing more. The licensing picture needs a phone call before you hire. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts Electrical Business licence (#8402) and an Electrician licence (#23213) for the company, and then, on the same page, a third record claiming no licence is required to work as an electrician in Massachusetts — which is simply not true. A directory that contradicts itself in three lines is not a credential; Massachusetts publishes electrician licences directly, and that is where to confirm the numbers. For a homeowner, this is a business you would have to check out yourself. There is nothing negative on file — no complaints, no disputes, no unhappy customers — but there is also nothing from anyone who has actually hired them. If you are considering them for a panel upgrade or a room's worth of rewiring, ask for recent local references, and verify both licence numbers against the state's own e-licensing board before work starts.