Peter W Rice

A $350,000 rebuild of a fire-damaged two-family in Charlestown — new egress stair, new lally columns and basement slab, all new heating, wiring and plumbing, then the kitchen and the finish carpentry. That 2015-2016 job is the clearest picture of what Peter W Rice does: whole-building work, not a single trade. He works out of 53 Pitman Rd in Marblehead. His Massachusetts construction supervisor licence, CS-082776, is active, and the home improvement contractor registration for Peter W. Rice LLC, number 183473, is active as well — the two-licence shape a builder doing structural work on homes is supposed to have. Listed work runs to kitchens, bathrooms, basements, whole-home remodels and additions. The permit trail from 2011 to 2022 leans heavily commercial. He remodelled the toilet rooms at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly twice over at $244,872, did an $80,000 restaurant fit-up on Cabot Street, and pulled a string of retail tenant fit-ups at 210 Main Street in Peabody and on Third Avenue in Burlington. The residential side is real but thinner: the Charlestown rebuild, a $140,000 kitchen renovation in Arlington that also took in windows, doors, siding and porches, a deck on Stramski Way in Marblehead, a small deck extension in South Easton. The thing to know is that no customer has written about him anywhere. BuildZoom shows no reviews, and no other platform carries a profile. Its score of 91 is calculated from licence status and permit history, not from anyone's experience of the work. BuildZoom also prints CS-082776 twice, once as active and once as inactive and at one point cancelled; the state registry shows it active, so treat the inactive line as the directory's error rather than a real status. He is a plausible call for a substantial remodel or an addition where structural work is involved, and the permit record shows he has carried jobs at that scale. Ask for references directly, since none exist publicly, and ask specifically about recent residential projects rather than commercial fit-ups.