Tebou Carpentry & Woodworking

Four straight Best of Houzz awards — 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 — and a 4.9 average from 38 client ratings on the same page. For a small carpentry shop, that is a lot of homeowners going out of their way to say the work landed. Tebou Carpentry & Woodworking works out of 8 Wells Ave in Amesbury and serves the North Shore. The BBB files it under carpenter as a sole proprietorship with about five employees, started in February 2011 — roughly 15 years at it — and grades the page A+. The praise is steady rather than fresh: the award years cluster in the second half of the 2010s, and the 38 ratings behind that 4.9 are spread over that history. The Houzz page also carries 23 posted projects, which is more built work than most carpenters bother to document, so you can look at finished jobs instead of taking a star average on faith. One thing to settle before work starts. Houzz lists a construction supervisor licence number, CS-114570, for the company — that is the directory's listing, not something confirmed against the Massachusetts registry, so ask to see the licence and a current certificate of insurance directly. A sensible call for carpentry and custom woodwork around Amesbury, Newburyport and the towns between. Pick the two posted projects closest to your own job, ask who on the five-person crew would actually run it, and get a couple of recent references while you are at it.