Merrimack Valley Carpentry & Remodeling

Merrimack Valley Carpentry & Remodeling is a carpentry and remodeling business listed at 12 Oak Ridge St. in Methuen, with Scott Clermont named as the owner. The trades on its listing are finish carpentry, cabinets, decks and porches, deck repair, and doors and windows. The thing to settle before anything else is its registration. BuildZoom reports Massachusetts licence number 164290 against this business with an expiration date of 27 September 2011, and says it last checked on 4 April 2026 and found the licence expired. The same page separately labels the licence "Inactive" and adds that Massachusetts Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation showed the status as cancelled at one point. Those descriptions do not agree with each other, and neither does the licence type: the same number 164290 appears once as a "Carpenter license" and once as a "Home Improvement Contractor" licence. That inconsistency is a reason to check the number directly rather than to assume the worst — a directory can be wrong about the type, the status, or both. What it is not is a reason to skip the check. This matters because deck, cabinet, door and window work on a home is the kind of work Massachusetts expects a registered Home Improvement Contractor to hold current registration for, and registration is what gives a homeowner access to the state's Guaranty Fund if a job goes wrong. There is no customer verdict here to weigh against any of it. BuildZoom states plainly that it has received no reviews for this contractor. Its BuildZoom score of 0 is not a quality judgment either — the site explains the zero exists precisely because it could not verify an active licence, and the "not ranked in the top 50% of 139,240 Massachusetts contractors" line that follows comes from the same licence-status calculation, not from anyone who hired them. Before hiring, look up licence 164290 yourself with the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, ask Scott Clermont directly for the business's current HIC registration number and proof of insurance, and ask for references from recent local jobs, since no published review history exists.