Ruiz Fine Carpentry

Ruiz Fine Carpentry is a one-crew finish-carpentry and general-contracting shop working out of Marblehead, the kind of outfit homeowners call for a custom built-in or a first-floor renovation rather than a routine repair. The company says it started in 2008 and has served Marblehead and the surrounding area for about 13 years; a client testimonial on its own site refers to it as "Mike Ruiz Carpentry," pointing to Mike Ruiz as the owner-operator. The most recent review on file, from March 2026, describes a large custom built-in replicated precisely from a photo the homeowner supplied, built with high-quality materials and finished ahead of schedule. That kind of praise for exacting, one-off custom work lines up with the overall pattern across the handful of reviews found for the company going back to 2022 — the tone is uniformly positive, though it's a thin sample spread across just four reviews and four sources rather than a deep single-platform track record. Worth asking about before booking: the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office fined the company for wage-and-hour violations twice in 2024 — $7,500 in May, and another $7,500 in January tied to a failure to furnish employment records. A separate summary listing also shows a $10,318 penalty tied to the same matter, though how it relates to the two detailed fines isn't clear from the record. None of this touches the quality of the finished carpentry, but it's a real compliance issue worth raising directly with the owner, especially before handing over payment on a larger job. For a Marblehead-area homeowner planning custom woodworking or finish-carpentry work, the reviews on hand are consistently positive about the craftsmanship. Confirm current licensing and insurance directly, and ask how the 2024 wage-and-hour findings were resolved before signing a contract.