Keith Alves contractor/Builder

Keith Alves has spent more than 40 years around Cape Ann job sites, and for the last 25-plus of them he's run his own general contracting business out of Gloucester. The company's own account traces back through Gloucester Vocational Technical School and years apprenticing under local builders before Alves went out on his own — work that started small and word-of-mouth and grew into a business that says it still runs mostly on referrals today, with Alves and a small crew, a foreman and an apprentice, handling the jobs. The reviews on file so far are few but consistently positive: three ratings on Google, all five stars, matching the trade description found everywhere else — new home construction, additions, custom carpentry, decks and porches, kitchen and bath remodels, and light commercial buildouts. That's the same range the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce and the Cape Ann Business Alliance list him under, and it lines up with his LinkedIn profile, which credits him as a Master Carpenter running the business since April 1995 — a few years longer than the company's own '25+ years' framing, a minor discrepancy worth noting rather than a red flag. His Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor license, number 153841, is currently verified active with the state registry. What's thin here is depth rather than quality: three reviews is a short list for a business built on a quarter-century-plus of referral work, so the perfect average carries less weight than a longer paper trail would. For a homeowner in Gloucester or elsewhere on Cape Ann weighing a carpentry-heavy project — an addition, a deck, custom built-ins, or a light commercial buildout — Alves' license checks out and the reviews on file are uniformly favorable. Worth asking for recent references directly, since the public review history is still short.