Prism Engineer LLC

A mechanical engineer who fixes houses. That is the pitch Prism Engineer LLC makes, and it is an unusual one on the North Shore: Preston Lofgren says he came out of corporate engineering and product development into handyman work, and the company sells that background as the thing you are hiring. The work itself is small-scale and varied — home maintenance and repair, carpentry, assembly, and one-off design and consulting for homeowners and businesses around Swampscott. The site describes the kind of problems it takes on as the fiddly ones: a cassette lock that has stopped working, a rusted-through spot in a metal bathtub. It also offers design and product-development help, which is not what most handyman outfits put on the front page. Outside voices are scarce. In a 2023 r/SalemMA thread from a homeowner looking for someone to redo an entryway and stair work, a commenter passed along the name and the phone number — a bare pointer rather than an account of a finished job. That is the only independent word on file, so treat the picture here as the company's own. The site states it is insured and a registered home improvement contractor, number 193139. That is the company's own statement; it has not been confirmed against the state registry, so ask to see the registration and the certificate of insurance before work starts. This is a plausible call for a small, odd, think-it-through job — the repair nobody else wants to diagnose — rather than a large remodel with a long reference list behind it. Ask for recent local references and a written scope, since there is no public review history to lean on.