Art Slate Roofing

Art Slate Roofing is a slate-and-copper specialist working out of Malden, built for the jobs an asphalt crew won't take on — Beacon Hill brownstones, historic Back Bay rowhouses, a chimney that needs rebuilding rather than patching. The company says it's been family-run since 2005, founded by Arturo Almeida, who still walks and quotes every roof himself, and it lists Boston, Cambridge, Newton, Somerville, Belmont, Watertown, and Stoneham among the towns it covers. Its Massachusetts contractor license (HIC #176393) is active, and its BBB file is stronger than most small roofing outfits build up: A+ rated, accredited, with a history the Bureau dates to 21 years. BuildZoom separately scores it above 89% of the more than 139,000 contractors it tracks statewide. What hasn't caught up yet is a public review trail — Google shows a single 5-star rating, not the volume that would make a star rating here more than a guess. There's a founding-date wrinkle worth a quick question before booking: a 2024 press write-up put the company at 24 years old, dating its start to 2000, while the company's own site and its BBB file both point to 2005. It's a detail to clear up, not a red flag on its own. For a slate roof, copper flashing, or a historic restoration where the materials matter as much as the labor, the license and BBB standing are the two things already verified — worth asking for a few recent references directly, since public reviews are still scarce.