Profile Builders

Profile Builders is a Danvers carpentry shop that people call about porches, decks and stairs — and on Thumbtack it carries 4.8 stars from 43 ratings, 86 percent of them five, with 52 jobs booked through the platform. The business presents itself as veteran-owned with 27 years behind it and one employee, Peter Daniels, whose name is what customers actually write about. Angi and HomeAdvisor list decks, interior carpentry and trim, and kitchen and bath remodeling among the services. What homeowners describe is narrower and more consistent than that list. In a 2018 review, a customer had a side porch rebuilt and the front porch restained, at what she called the most reasonable price, and said she felt comfortable letting him into her home. A 2020 customer had an entire front porch replaced with composite decking and railing. Back in 2015, a Salem homeowner had an interior wood stairway repaired and made a point of the cleanup afterward. Speed and price are the recurring notes. A 2019 customer said a porch repair she had been putting off, plus a drainage fix asked for at the last minute, came in faster than the estimate. A 2020 stair-railing repair took a couple of hours from diagnosis to fix. The caveat is timing. The written record runs 2015 to 2021 and stops there; the Angi and HomeAdvisor pages each carry the same single five-star review from July 2021, and no platform shows anything current. Kitchen and bath remodeling appears on the service lists but in none of the reviews. For deck, porch, stair or trim work from a small, long-running shop, this is the right shape of business. Ask what the crew looks like now and for references from the last year or two, since the public trail is several years behind.