Paul Gallagher

P. M. Gallagher Inc. says it has been building since 1987 — nearly four decades of additions, home remodels, custom houses and the architectural work that comes before them. Paul Gallagher's Houzz profile puts the company in Lynn and its working radius across Greater Boston and the North Shore. It presents itself as a design-build general building contractor rather than a single-trade shop, which is the shape of a company you bring in to draw a project and then run it, not to swap out one room's fixtures. Houzz lists a Massachusetts Construction Supervisor licence for the business, CS-078120. A reasonable call for an addition or a whole-house remodel on the North Shore. Before you sign, check CS-078120 and the company's home improvement contractor registration on the state's register yourself, and ask to walk two or three finished additions and talk to the homeowners who hired them.