Richard W Knight

Richard W Knight, trading as Richard W Knight Construction, runs a small remodeling outfit from 31 Low St in Newbury, Massachusetts, with Richard W Knight and Thomas Knight both listed as owners. The permit record is the substantial thing here. Eighteen permitted projects sit under the company, and BuildZoom's own analysis of them finds the work is mostly kitchen remodels — six of them — plus three multi-room remodels. Geographically the jobs cluster in Boston's North End, on Cooper, Thacher, Salem, Wiget and Prince Streets, alongside work closer to home in Newbury and Newburyport and two jobs in Middleton, at 14 Birch Rd in 2022 and 170 N Main St in 2019. The credential picture is the part to take seriously. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts construction supervisor licence, CS-084755, as active when checked in July 2026. But it also reports, citing the state's Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation records, that the Home Improvement Contractor registration #184053 is INACTIVE and was at one point cancelled. In Massachusetts, HIC registration is what backs a homeowner's access to the Guaranty Fund on residential remodeling work of exactly the kitchen-and-bath kind this contractor mostly does, so its status is not a technicality. Confirm it directly with Consumer Affairs before signing anything. No customer has reviewed this business publicly — BuildZoom states it has received none, and nothing turned up elsewhere. There is no rating here, and no account from anyone who has actually hired him, which is why the permit trail and the licence records are all there is to weigh. For a homeowner in Middleton or the Newbury area, this is a contractor with a genuine and fairly busy kitchen-remodeling permit history and an open question over his home improvement registration. Ask him directly about registration 184053, verify the current status with the state yourself, and ask for references from the recent North End kitchen jobs.