Ascend Roofing & Construction LLC

Ascend Roofing & Construction, LLC works out of 202 Barker Ave in Lowell, Massachusetts, and it is the kind of roofer people find by asking a neighbour rather than by searching. Its BuildZoom permit file shows 115 permitted projects, 37 of them in the last three years, weighted heavily toward roofing with a handful of home additions and a typical permit value near $14,250 - a real, working local roofing outfit, with Danny Rivera listed as its owner. The customer record is small but consistent and it points at the same things. A May 2026 commenter on r/LowellMA wrote that they had used "Danny from Ascend Roofing and Construction" for both their garage and their house and that the company was fast and fairly priced. On Angi the profile is rated 4.9 from five ratings, all five stars, with an October 2020 reviewer describing a roof replacement where the owner applied no pressure and the crew were respectful, hard-working and thorough on clean-up, and an August 2020 reviewer saying they had hired the company twice and were very happy with the attention to detail. Two things about that Angi record are worth stating plainly rather than glossing. Four of its five reviews are dated August 2020 and the fifth October 2020, so the whole rated history sits in a six-week window almost six years ago; and two of those five carry only Angi's boilerplate "Yes, I recommend this pro" line with no customer prose at all. The one genuinely recent voice is the 2026 Reddit comment. The most important thing to check before hiring is the registration. The Massachusetts registry shows Home Improvement Contractor registration 191347, held by ASCEND CONSTRUCTION, LLC, as EXPIRED; BuildZoom independently states the licence carried an expiration date of 04-10-2024 and that it last verified the licence expired on 04-12-2026, and shows the company with a BuildZoom score of 0 solely because no active licence could be verified. Massachusetts exempts roofing-only work from HIC registration, so an expired registration is not automatically a fault for a pure roofer - but this company's own permit record includes home-addition projects, which are not exempt. So: a well-liked, permit-active Lowell roofer with warm but dated reviews and one recent first-hand recommendation. Ask directly whether the HIC registration has been renewed before signing anything beyond a straightforward roof, and get the registration number and status in writing.