Capeway Roofing Systems, Inc. is a Westport, Massachusetts commercial and industrial roofing and waterproofing contractor that has worked across New England since 1986, with the BBB listing a 1984 start, 1986 incorporation, about 100 employees, and Joseph Calheta as president. It installs low- and steep-slope systems, including TPO, PVC, EPDM, modified bitumen, built-up, slate, copper, and shingle roofs, and runs its own metal fabrication shop. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor license 199028 is registry-verified active, the BBB records construction supervisor registration CS72004, and the state Supplier Diversity Office lists its Portuguese Business Enterprise certification as active through March 2029. The company says it is an approved applicator for Carlisle, Firestone, Sarnafil, and Johns Manville.
Its project record is deep and public. Trade coverage in 2023 and 2025 described Capeway installing the roof system on a 228-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail in Worcester's Canal District. Sika Sarnafil, which counts Capeway among its Elite Partners Club contractors, gave it a Project of the Year award for the roof on Annie E. Fales Elementary, the first net-positive-energy public school in Massachusetts, and the company placed in Sarnafil's 2004 applicator challenge. Public contracts include Fall River's Main Library roof replacement in 2019, a $245,800 Berkshire County roof job in 2021, and a 2016 recommendation as sole bidder for a $191,000 roof on a former Providence school. In 2006, Professional Roofing recognized its safety approach on Connecticut College's Luce Field House.
The customer and safety record is more mixed. Google shows a 4.3 average from 21 ratings, but of the five written reviews, only one describes a job: in March 2025, the child of a restaurant owner said the company left a half-finished roof and a large mess, with a crew that customers reported as drunk and belligerent. Two other one- and two-star reviews, from April and October 2025, are highway complaints about company trucks driving recklessly, and the two positive reviews, from 2021 and March 2026, say only that the people are helpful. Government records show a 2010 federal Davis-Bacon wage-and-hour violation with a $10,796 penalty, a decision by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission in a case against the company from docket year 2000, and two OSHA inspections, one at a Vineyard Haven site closed in January 2024. The website's sheet metal business license shows an expiration of January 2025.
Capeway is built for school districts, municipalities, developers, and building owners with large flat or specialty roofs, not for a house. Ask about the OSHA history and crew supervision, confirm the sheet metal license is current, and get references from recent public projects.
