Winter Hill General Contractor Inc

The clearest thing about Winter Hill General Contractor is the permit trail. BuildZoom counts 330 permitted projects on record for the company, 19 of them in the last three years, at a typical permit value of about $13,350 — work it categorizes as kitchen and bath renovations, decks and porches, roofing and siding, spread across Malden, Brookline, Melrose, Everett, Middleton, Danvers, Newton and Billerica. The one independent look at the finished work comes from a neighbor rather than a customer. In April 2021 an r/Somerville commenter described the company building a large dormer and roof across the street, and doing a full re-siding around the corner on Hancock, and said the re-sided 1920 house looked like it had been built yesterday. A testimonial on the company's own website names Claudio and Lincoln and describes an easy experience — the company's own material, not an outside account. Licensing needs care here. The Massachusetts registry shows the company's home improvement contractor registration, number 168583, as expired, with Winter Hill General Contractor, Inc. named as the holder of record. BuildZoom separately lists a home improvement contractor registration numbered 204047 issued on 30 December 2025 — that is BuildZoom's record rather than a state registry check. BuildZoom also states coverage of $2 million in general liability and $500,000 in workers' compensation. So the homework before signing is specific. Ask for the current HIC registration number in writing and look it up yourself against the state's contractor registry, since the registration on file here has lapsed. Ask for certificates of insurance sent directly by the insurer rather than forwarded. And ask for addresses of two or three recent jobs in your own town — the permit history is public, which makes those easy to confirm. For exterior work — roofs, dormers, siding — the permit record and the 2021 neighbor's account point the same way. Get references you can call before committing to anything larger.