McCabe General Contracting LLC

The people who write about Sean McCabe's crew mostly hired them more than once — designers running client projects, a commercial owner with three properties, a neighbor who saw the finished work next door and called. McCabe General Contracting works out of 191 Middlesex Ave in Wilmington. The BBB lists it as an LLC started in February 2016 with one employee on file and Sean McCabe as owner, and gives it an A+ without accreditation. The jobs described are whole-room and whole-house, not odd repairs. In a January 2024 review, the owner of an 1838 house itemized years of work: an upper rear deck, a dining room porch, a front dormer, an entire front and side façade re-clad in new clapboard, millwork around new Pella windows, real shutters, a rebuilt rear fence and a privacy gate. A May 2022 reviewer described converting a 200-year-old kitchen in a tight footprint — original plank floorboards lifted, a new ceiling, tiled floor and fireplace hearth, custom cabinetry, plumbing and electrical re-routed — and said the crew held to both timeline and cost. In 2024, another homeowner had a basement refinished and a third had a custom media center and shelving built, with carpenters and painters brought in for it. Google sits at 4.7 across 14 ratings; Angi and HomeAdvisor each show 5.0 from the same four reviews. The one dissent is a November 2024 Google review that says only "Don't go anywhere near this company if you know what's good for you." It names no project and gives no detail, but it is also the most recent thing anyone has written, and the written accounts here run 2021 to 2024. Two things worth sorting out before signing. The tenure claims don't line up: Angi's own page says 17 years of experience in its blurb and 25 in its highlights, while the BBB dates the LLC to 2016. And the licence — Angi and HomeAdvisor both list a Massachusetts trade licence numbered 192639 expiring January 2027, which is the directories' listing rather than a registry check, so ask to see the registration itself. For a kitchen, a basement build-out, or an old-house exterior that needs several trades coordinated, this is the kind of job customers keep describing them finishing. Ask for the licence and a reference from a project in the last year, and ask what happened behind that one-star review before you commit.