Michael F Griffin Construction

Eighty-one permitted projects, and not one customer review anywhere. That is the shape of Michael F Griffin Construction, a Salem outfit working out of 180 Loring Avenue whose paper trail is written almost entirely in building permits rather than star ratings. The permits themselves say more about the work than any marketing line would. They run heavily to exteriors — stripping a house down to the substrate and re-siding it, tearing off shingle roofs, rebuilding front porches and deck boards — across Boston neighborhoods like Roslindale, Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park and West Roxbury, with a 2023 entrance-stairs job in Marblehead. BuildZoom also lists broader remodeling work, from basements to whole-home projects and additions. What is missing is the homeowner's side of it. No review has been posted about this company on the sources checked, so there is nothing from people who actually hired them — no account of scheduling, cleanup, pricing, or how a problem got handled. The BuildZoom score attached to the profile is calculated from permit activity, not from anything a customer wrote, and should not be read as a reputation. One thing to settle before signing anything: the licensing. BuildZoom shows two Massachusetts home improvement contractor records for the name — one it lists as active, issued in December 2025, and an older one it describes as having been cancelled. Neither was confirmed against the state registry here, so ask for the current registration number directly and check it yourself at the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, which publishes HIC status for free. If you are re-siding, re-roofing or rebuilding a porch on an older North Shore or Boston house, this is a crew whose permit history matches that work closely. Go in expecting to do your own diligence: ask for two or three recent local references, confirm the registration and insurance in writing, and get the scope itemized, because the public record here gives you volume without any account of how the jobs went.