Viking Construction

Viking Construction is a four-person Marblehead shop built for the jobs that change the shape of a house — additions, kitchens and baths, decks, siding and windows — with custom finish carpentry for the parts you end up looking at every day. BBB lists it as an LLC started in 2004, with Jon Hancke as owner, at 153 Village Street. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #143130 under Viking Construction LLC, is active on the state registry. Houzz and BuildZoom both list a Massachusetts Construction Supervisor licence, CS-089413, for the business. The BBB profile carries an A+ grade, though the company is not BBB Accredited. The permit trail says where the work happens: BuildZoom shows a sample of eight building permits in Marblehead, Danvers and Peabody, and Houzz carries three project galleries. The company's own site puts its service area across the North Shore — Marblehead, Beverly, Nahant, Swampscott, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Ipswich and Lynn — while its Houzz page names Marblehead, Swampscott, Salem and Nahant. One detail to square early: BuildZoom lists a Kingston, New Hampshire headquarters address alongside the Marblehead street address, so ask where the crew actually works out of if daily start times matter to you. For an addition or a whole-room remodel on the North Shore, this is the small-crew end of the trade, where the person whose name is on the LLC is likely to be on site. Before signing, ask for liability and workers' compensation certificates, a written schedule with a completion date, and the address of a recent addition you can go look at.