McCabe General Contracting LLC

McCabe General Contracting is a one-man Wilmington LLC run by Sean McCabe, registered in February 2016 and working out of 191 Middlesex Ave. Homeowners hire him for whole-room renovation work — kitchens, baths, basements — and for built-in carpentry, with painters and carpenters brought onto the job as it needs them. The people who wrote about him describe the work in detail. A homeowner who converted a 200-plus-year-old kitchen in a tight footprint said in a 2022 review that the crew carefully pulled up the original plank floorboards, built a new ceiling, and tiled the floor and the fireplace hearth. Another 2022 account covers a large basement renovation plus smaller jobs around the same house, and a 2021 customer had a basement, kitchen, fireplace and closet done at once. A 2024 homeowner hired Sean on a neighbor's recommendation for a custom media center and shelves built to challenging specs, and credited the carpenter and painters he brought in. Older houses come up again. An Angi reviewer who owns an 1838 house wrote in January 2024 that they have been working with the company since 2015 and that neighbors ask for the same crew after seeing the results. Two commercial clients — one who used McCabe on three properties in 2022, another on repeat Boston-area projects through January 2024 — describe the same things their residential customers do: work explained before it starts, plans adapted mid-project, and messages answered. The one negative account is short and blunt. A November 2024 Google reviewer wrote "Don't go anywhere near this company if you know what's good for you. You will have regrets," and it stands alone among the eleven reviews on file from 2021 through 2024, which otherwise run five stars on Angi and HomeAdvisor and 4.7 on Google. Angi's own profile is also inconsistent about how long McCabe has been at this: the blurb says 17 years of experience while the business highlights say 25, and the Better Business Bureau dates the LLC to 2016. Massachusetts lists home improvement contractor registration 192639 as active, and the Better Business Bureau grades the business A+. If your project is a kitchen, bath or basement in an older New England house, or built-ins that have to be measured to the room, that is the work customers describe most; ask up front who from his crew will be on site and how the schedule is set, since the business is registered with a single employee and brings trades in per job.