T Bone Builders

T Bone Builders is Terrance Johnson, working out of a house on Oakledge Road in Swampscott — one employee on the books, and a trading history BBB dates to April 2018, when the LLC was both started and incorporated. The two jobs anyone can trace are small and local. In 2022 he pulled a $26,000 kitchen remodel permit at 17 Princeton St in Danvers, and it is marked complete. The other, a $8,850 permit to replace decking and railings at 63 Ware Ln in Marblehead in 2021, is marked SUSPENDED — a status worth asking him about directly, since a suspended permit can mean anything from a homeowner cancelling to an inspection problem, and neither BuildZoom nor BBB says which. Both directories list a Massachusetts licence number 143880 for the company, but they disagree about what it is: BuildZoom calls it a Home Improvement Contractor registration, while BBB attributes the same number to the Board of Building Regulations and Standards, which issues construction supervisor licences. Neither is a state confirmation, and this scan did not verify a licence against the registry — so look 143880 up yourself, under both the Office of Consumer Affairs and the Board of Building Regulations, before you rely on it. BBB has issued no rating and says why: it does not have enough information about the business. The profile is not accredited, carries no complaints and no government actions, and no customer has written anything there. BuildZoom has no reviews either, and it says outright that its score of 90 means only that the company is licensed or registered, not that anyone rated the work. For a small deck-and-kitchen job on the North Shore this is a one-man builder with a real address, a real owner name and permits filed under both. What is missing entirely is anyone's account of how the work turned out — so ask for the Danvers and Marblehead homeowners by name, and ask about that suspended permit before you sign.