Cran-marsh General Contracting

Cran-Marsh is a roofing-led general contractor working out of Middleboro, Massachusetts, run by owner Timothy Bronk and trading as both Cran-Marsh Inc. and Cran-Marsh General Contractors. The Better Business Bureau records the business as started in 1982, and it describes itself as a licensed general contractor serving homes and businesses across New England. Roofing is plainly the core of the work. Its permit record runs to 206 projects and is concentrated on roofs, and the services it lists across directories are asphalt shingle, metal and wood-shake roofing along with decks, siding and windows. The scale ranges from an $11,000 church roof up to commercial re-roofing, and the jobs reach well beyond its own town — permits include a $70,000 clubhouse roof at 8 Meeting House Square in Middleton in December 2022, plus work in Plymouth, Wareham, Carver, Falmouth and Revere. The customer record is small but consistent and it names the owner. In an October 2018 review a church described a roof replaced in Carver that September, calling the company outstanding and saying they would hire them again. In April 2024 a homeowner wrote that their new roof looked great, that Tim was very responsive and that the team did quality work at a great price; a June 2024 reviewer called the experience painless and the company reliable, affordable and professional. That is three distinct customers over six years, all giving five stars — a credible but thin record, and the most recent of them is now over a year old. A few things are worth pinning down before you sign. The Better Business Bureau shows an A+ rating while stating in the same breath that the business is NOT BBB accredited; those are two separate facts, and the A+ is not an accreditation. Its licence position also needs checking directly: only one record, Construction Supervisor CS-066819, carries a verification claim, while a municipal registration on the same directory panel was printed as active and simultaneously marked unverified with a December 2022 expiry. Contact details differ by directory too, with three different street addresses and two different phone numbers in circulation. This is a sensible company to get a quote from if you want an established, permit-active roofer for a shingle, metal or flat-roof replacement in southeastern Massachusetts, and it demonstrably travels for larger jobs. Ask for the current Construction Supervisor and Home Improvement Contractor registration numbers and check them with the Commonwealth yourself, confirm which Wareham Street address and phone number are current, and ask whether the estimate is free — the directories contradict the company's own wording on that point.