Northbay Building Company

Northbay Building Company is a Harwich residential contractor run by Joseph Butler — Joe to his customers — working across Cape Cod and Plymouth County. The company holds Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration 184119, which the state registry shows active in Joseph Butler's name, and its own site describes a family-owned company with more than 30 years of hands-on construction experience doing kitchen and bathroom remodels, additions, whole-home renovations, exterior work and new home construction. The permit record is the strongest evidence here. BuildZoom lists 19 permitted projects — 7 in 2023, 6 in 2024 and one in 2025 — mostly home additions, with a typical permit value around $43,000, and gives the company a score it describes as above 98% of Massachusetts contractors. Houzz lists nine projects and a typical job cost from $15,000 to $1.5 million. The written accounts are few and old, but specific. Three September 2021 Houzz reviews all name Joe: one homeowner had a new deck, outdoor shower and repair work done and wrote that the estimate was reasonable and the job stayed within budget, praising the crew's ability to improvise; another described shingles and trim replaced on a house in Truro with attention to detail; a third, a property owner from Wianno to Brewster over twenty years, called the company knowledgeable, responsive and timely. A 2020 HomeAdvisor review comes from someone who says he has known Joe personally for years, so it reads as a reference rather than an arm's-length review. Two things to check before hiring. First, the record is thin and dated — four reviews in total, none newer than 2021 — so ask for recent references on work like yours. Second, the company's older listings still point at northbayconstruction.net, which today serves a different company under a different name and a California phone number; the current site is northbaybuild.com and the number it publishes is (508) 506-9041, while BBB and BuildZoom carry (508) 280-3025. Confirm which line reaches the office.