Ronald J Pitocchelli

Twenty-seven building permits, and not one customer review. That is the shape of Ronald J Pitocchelli — a Methuen builder whose paper trail is municipal rather than customer-facing. The work behind those permits is substantial and varied: a new single-family dwelling with an attached two-stall garage permitted at $478,500, a $115,050 job that took out kitchen walls and rebuilt bathrooms on two floors, deck rebuilds, replacement windows with Azek trim, a fence, a shed, interior office framing, bathroom framing after water damage, and a roof stripped and re-shingled. Most of it sits in Methuen, with jobs reaching Danvers, Somerville and Beverly. Licensing is the thing to sort out before calling. BuildZoom lists two separate Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor numbers under his name — 135761 and 165204 — and marks both inactive, citing Mass.gov Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation that each was at one point cancelled. It also gives 135761 an expiration date of May 5, 2008, and describes that same number as a General Contractor license in its narrative while typing it as a Home Improvement Contractor registration in its licence block. Those are the directory's own listings, not a state verification, and the two labels for one number do not agree with each other. BuildZoom's page for him carries no customer reviews, and the BuildZoom score of 0 shown there is a permit-and-licence calculation the site says is zero only because it could not verify an active licence — it is not a customer verdict, and nothing here says how any of these jobs actually went. He is a plausible call for structural, framing-heavy residential work in the Merrimack Valley, on the strength of the permit history alone. Before booking, ask for his current Home Improvement Contractor registration number and check it yourself against the state's Consumer Affairs lookup, and ask for addresses from the recent Methuen jobs so you can see finished work.