Phenix Aluminum Window Co., Inc.

Phenix Aluminum Window Co., Inc. has been on South Main Street in Fall River since 1953 and was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1960 — seventy-three years in the same trade in the same city. It also trades as The Stove Shop and as Phoenix Aluminum Window Company, which is why a window company keeps turning up in stove and fireplace listings: the two names are one shop. What it sells spans both halves of that identity. On the building side, vinyl replacement windows, aluminum storm windows and storm doors, aluminum awnings, railing and garage doors. On the hearth side, wood, coal, gas and oil stoves, wood-burning and gas fireplaces, metal chimneys and fireplace equipment. Six people work there; Mr. Maurice A. Phenix is President and Treasurer and Ms. Pauline R. Phenix is Vice President and Secretary. The credential picture is the part that needs care before you sign. Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration 106693 is held in the company's own name, and a check against the state registry returns it as expired. The Better Business Bureau's profile separately lists a Massachusetts Department of Public Safety Construction Supervisor License #063108 and a Rhode Island Building Contractor's Registration Board number 5470 — those are the directory's listings rather than anything verified against a registry. HIC registration is what gives a Massachusetts homeowner access to the state Guaranty Fund on a residential job, so ask the company for its current registration number and check it yourself. Customer feedback is thin, and the one voice on record is unhappy: an undated, unrated BBB review that declines to recommend the business, aimed at the owner's son rather than at any particular job. The Bureau does not rate the company and says it has insufficient information to do so, and the business is not BBB accredited. For a Fall River homeowner replacing storm windows or putting a stove in, this is a long-established local shop that handles both from one counter. Confirm the current registration status, and get the scope and the product specification in writing before work starts.