Division 7 ASM, Inc.

Division 7 ASM is an Amesbury metal-roofing specialist — the crew homeowners call when the job is a standing-seam copper roof, cedar shakes, or a tricky flashing detail where two rooflines meet, not a standard asphalt reshingle. The company, run by owner Al Norman, says on its site it serves the North Shore and the southern Maine coast with roofing, gutters, siding and in-house metal fabrication. Every review on file — 22 of them across Google and HomeAdvisor — is five stars, and the specifics keep pointing the same direction: this is a craftsmanship shop. One customer describes copper flashing and lead soldering "typical of high-end homes" on an ordinary Cape Cod; another calls it the best copper work they'd seen in over 30 years of looking. Reviewers also credit the crew — named individually in several reviews (Al, Zach, Jason, JP, Blaine) — with solving an awkward flashing problem where two rooflines met on a porch roof, and one customer has hired Al for eight years running across multiple job sites, calling him the only one in his field he still uses. BuildZoom lists the company's Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor and Sheet Metal Business licenses as active, and its own site claims manufacturer certifications with Kemper, Rheinzink, EPDM and PVC roofing systems going back as far as 1993. One thing worth asking about directly: the company's own materials don't agree on how long it's been around — its site says it's served New England since 2004 in one place and "nearly four decades" in another, while HomeAdvisor lists 18 years of experience — so treat any specific tenure claim as approximate rather than settled. For copper, standing-seam, or cedar-shake roofing work that a standard asphalt crew won't touch, the record here is unusually consistent — just don't take the "years in business" figure at face value without asking directly.