Philbrook Construction Services Group, Inc.

Twenty-seven permitted projects across Cape Cod, and only three Google ratings to go with them. Philbrook Construction Services Group works out of Dennis and takes on the jobs that go through a building department — whole-house renovations, additions, kitchen and multi-room remodels. The company says it was established in 1981 by Varn Philbrook, and that his son Andrew now runs it with longtime friend Josh Drohan, its second generation and by its own count 45 years in. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #200152, is active and held by the company itself. BuildZoom's permit history is where the work is visible: 27 permitted projects, 21 of them within the past three years, at a typical permit value around $50,940 — renovation money, not handyman money. Its BBB page carries an A+ and lists no complaints. What customers have written is sparse. A 2024 Google reviewer, one half of a couple who said they had owned nine houses over 54 years of marriage, described the company totally renovating their West Dennis house; a 2025 reviewer left a shorter note about customer service. Two 2024 articles name the firm — a Cape Cod Times piece on a house framed in five days that quotes Andrew Philbrook as president, and a Green Builder Media story about a high-performance home designed by A3 Architects and built by Philbrook. Two things to settle before you call. BuildZoom puts the company at 125 Wianno Road in Yarmouth while its own site and BBB profile both say 107 Beach Street in Dennis — the phone number matches on both, so it reads like a permit-address artifact, but ask where they actually operate. And the veteran-owned, family-owned description is the company's own words about itself, not something a registry confirmed here. They're the right call for a Cape renovation or addition big enough to need drawings, permits and someone managing the schedule; the company says it covers Barnstable, Brewster, Chatham, Dennis, Eastham, Harwich, Orleans, Sandwich and Yarmouth. Just go in knowing you'd be hiring largely on permit history and a licence check rather than a long trail of customer writing — ask for references from jobs they finished in your town in the last year.