Richard A Lavoie

Fifty-seven permitted jobs in three years — thirty in 2024 alone — makes Richard A Lavoie one of the busier residential mechanical contractors on paper anywhere in this directory. What he does is narrow and repeatable: pull an old furnace, heat pump or air conditioner, put a new one in the same spot, reconnect or rebuild the sheet-metal ductwork, seal and insulate it. The work clusters hard in Brookline and Chestnut Hill, with jobs also permitted in Boston and Waltham, and one in Marblehead — a $34,596 air-conditioning replacement on West Street in 2024. Typical permit value sits around $20,000, with most jobs between $5,000 and $50,000. His listing is thin in ways worth noting. There is no street address, no phone number, and no customer has published a word about him — not a review, not a complaint, anywhere. For a trade where you are letting someone reroute the heating in your house, that is a gap you have to close by asking directly. The licence picture also needs a phone call. BuildZoom says it verified an active Massachusetts construction supervisor licence for one- and two-family homes, CSFA-106282. Alongside it the same directory prints number 2089 twice: once as a sheet metal licence marked active but explicitly not verified, last checked with a December 2025 expiry, and once as a plumbing business licence it describes as having been cancelled. Its own summary text then rolls all three together and calls them active, which its cancelled record contradicts. Worth a call for a straightforward heating or cooling replacement given how much of that he demonstrably does. Confirm each licence number yourself with the Department of Public Safety and the state E-Licensing board before signing, and ask for a couple of recent Brookline or Marblehead customers you can phone.