R&B Custom Carpentry

R&B Custom Carpentry works out of 58 Warren St Ext in Peabody, and the clearest thing about it is the paper trail: ten building permits pulled between 2002 and 2022 across Peabody, Danvers, Topsfield and Milton, all under owner Robert Ouellette. One of those jobs is in Marblehead. In February 2022 the company pulled a commercial permit at 123 Pleasant St to save a donut counter, raise it, and install new millwork - a small, fussy job of exactly the kind its BuildZoom listing points to: finish and framing carpentry, decks and porches, doors and windows. What there isn't is a customer voice. BuildZoom carries no reviews for the company at all, so nobody who hired R&B has said anything on the page. Its BuildZoom score of 0 comes from permits and licence status rather than anything a homeowner wrote, and should not be read as a verdict on the work. Licensing is the thing to settle before you call. BuildZoom prints no licence number, its own entry reads 'Unable To Verify', and an alert on the same page says no active licence is on file - none of which is a check against the state. Massachusetts requires a Home Improvement Contractor registration for nonstructural residential work and a construction supervisor licence where structural elements are involved, so ask Robert Ouellette for the numbers and confirm them with the Office of Consumer Affairs and the Department of Public Safety yourself. For a North Shore homeowner who wants trim, framing, a deck or a porch from a one-owner shop with two decades of permits behind it, R&B is worth a call. Go in expecting to do the credential check yourself, and ask for references, because there is no written customer history to lean on.