William H Waite Jr Inc

Ninety-nine years is the number that stops you. The Better Business Bureau dates William H. Waite Jr., Inc. to 1 January 1927, and it is still running out of Bedford with six people under president William Waite Jr. The permits show a condo-and-unit specialist. Twenty-one permitted jobs, most of them interior work inside multi-unit buildings in Boston, Charlestown, East Boston, Brookline and Newton: kitchen and bathroom remodels, water-damage repair, countertops, stair railings brought to code. The largest on file is a $169,915 unit remodel in Charlestown in 2012 — kitchen, bath, lighting and mechanicals, with no structural change. There is also a 2019 permit to wire a new gas boiler at 22 Spring Rd in Nahant. The BBB grades the company A+ on a profile it has never sought accreditation for, and describes it as a residential and light commercial contractor handling remodels, additions, garages and new home construction. Licensing is where to ask a question. BuildZoom lists construction supervisor licence CS-007381 as active — the directory's own record — while listing two Massachusetts home improvement contractor registrations, #212017 and #101065, as inactive, saying Consumer Affairs recorded each as at one point cancelled. Those are the registrations a homeowner would want live, so ask for a current number. No one has written up a job: neither the BBB profile nor BuildZoom carries a customer review. A sensible call for a condo or unit renovation where building rules and inspectors are half the job — that is plainly where the experience sits. Get the current registration number and check it with Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, and ask for references from work finished in the last year or two.