Reid Sanphy

Twelve permits between 2019 and 2024, and their values tell you what kind of work Reid Sanphy takes on: $322,813 to gut three floors of a Charlestown house in 2022, $290,000 for a first-floor remodel with a second-floor bathroom, deck and HVAC in Beverly in 2023, $202,266 for a kitchen in Belmont. This is a remodeler running whole-house jobs, not a handyman filling an afternoon. The smaller end is there too — master and guest bathrooms in Beverly in 2021, kitchen remodels in Manchester in 2020, work running down to $8,000. Beverly and Manchester each turn up more than once, which is usually what repeat work or a referral chain looks like. He is based in Nahant, though only one job on the island itself appears: a gas-fitting permit at 162 Willow Road in 2024. BuildZoom scores him 97, above 82% of the 139,240 Massachusetts contractors it tracks, and lists a Massachusetts construction supervisor licence, #CS-108289 — the credential the state requires for structural work — as its own entry rather than a check run against the registry here. What's missing is the human half. No customer has written anything down, on BuildZoom or anywhere else. The permits show what he built, where, and what it cost. They say nothing about how he communicates, whether he holds a schedule, or what happens when something goes wrong mid-job. So call, and ask to see both the construction supervisor licence, #CS-108289, and his home improvement contractor registration — Massachusetts requires the latter for nonstructural residential work. Then ask for the Beverly and Manchester owners. With towns he has gone back to, references should be easy for him to produce.