Paulo E Mendes Construction

Paulo E Mendes builds basements. Of the 29 permits filed under his name out of Peabody, the job that keeps recurring is a basement renovation — two of them a few doors apart on Lorraine Terrace in Marblehead, a $95,400 project in August 2023 and $27,000 more in February 2024 — alongside kitchen and bathroom remodels and structural work in Newburyport, Beverly, Melrose, Everett, Brookline and several Boston neighbourhoods. The pace has slowed, though. Only three of those 29 permits were pulled in the last three years, so most of that history is older than the total suggests. Licensing is the thing to settle before anything else. His Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, 143869, shows as expired in the state registry — that is the registration Massachusetts requires for residential home improvement work, and it is not current. BuildZoom separately lists a second home improvement contractor number, #174591, as inactive and at one point cancelled, and says it verified his construction supervisor licence, CS-084054, as active in July 2026. Those are two different credentials covering different things; holding the construction supervisor licence does not stand in for the registration. Nothing has been published by his customers. BuildZoom holds no reviews for him, and the 98 score on that page is computed from permit history rather than from anyone's experience of the work. If one of those basement jobs is in your neighbourhood — the two Marblehead addresses are on the page — it is worth a call and a look at the finished rooms. Before signing anything, ask him to produce a current home improvement contractor registration, because the one the state has on file has expired.