Thomas J. Scala

Thirty-two pulled permits and not one customer review — that is the shape of Thomas J. Scala, an electrician working out of Marblehead. The permits are the only real trace of the work, and they read like a residential sparky's calendar rather than a big commercial book. Between 2016 and 2022 the jobs on file include wiring a new basement bathroom with lighting and outlets in Beverly, a renovated kitchen with recessed lights and appliance circuits, and the electrical for a third-floor addition with a bedroom and full bath in Manchester valued at $85,000. Marblehead, Beverly, Salem and Manchester come up repeatedly; the individual job values are mostly in the $3,500 to $8,750 range. Nobody has written anything about hiring him — not on BuildZoom, not anywhere else turned up here. BuildZoom gives him a score of 91, but that number is built from licence and permit history, not from anything a customer said, so read it as a record of activity rather than of workmanship. The licence needs a direct question. BuildZoom prints the same number, 21970, twice under two different labels: once as an Electrician licence it says it verified active in April 2026, and once as a Master Electrician licence it marks 'License Not Verified' with an expiration of July 2016. Those two entries cannot both describe the current state of one number, and neither has been confirmed against the state here. If you want a Marblehead-area electrician for a basement, kitchen or addition rewire, the permit history says he does exactly that kind of work and has for years. Ask him for his licence number and check it yourself with the Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Electricians, and ask for a couple of recent local references, since there is nothing written to read.