Raymond Burns Dba Lough Construction

Raymond Burns, doing business as Lough Construction out of Winthrop, has a permit record that spans real general-contracting work rather than one narrow trade — 23 permits from 2018 through June 2025, with six pulled in the past three years and a typical job value around $24,000. The work itself is varied: kitchen and bathroom renovations, dormer and third-floor work and a new deck in Brookline, a rear addition in Newton, a porch enclosure and whole-house window replacement in Jamaica Plain, a strip-and-reroof in Wakefield, and — the largest job on record — a three-family gut rehab in East Boston valued at $300,000. Licensing here needs a direct call before hiring. The state registry shows his Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #188164, as expired. BuildZoom separately lists a second, now-inactive Home Improvement Contractor number, #203097, also noted as once cancelled — but it does show an active Massachusetts Construction Supervisor License, #CS-110950, which it says it verified active as of July 2026. A construction supervisor license and a home improvement contractor registration cover different things, and only the latter is the one required to sign a home-improvement contract with a homeowner in Massachusetts. BuildZoom also scores him a 99, which it says puts him above 85% of the roughly 139,000 Massachusetts contractors it tracks — a directory metric based on licensing and permit activity, not customer feedback. Given real, recent permit volume across a range of remodeling and renovation work but a lapsed home improvement contractor registration, this is worth a direct conversation about current licensing status before signing anything.