Doherty Customs inc.

Doherty Customs is a Hull-based roofing and construction company that keeps showing up in reviews for the jobs other contractors turned down — a front door replacement that several contractors said couldn't be done, a custom rubber roof on a room with only a 2-3 pitch, carpentry fixes for work someone else botched. The company, run hands-on by owner Eric Doherty since it says it became a licensed contractor in 2008, describes itself as a residential and commercial construction and roofing contractor specializing in historic home restoration across Boston's South Shore. The range of work reviewers describe is wide: roof leak repairs, a full window and storm-door replacement project where the crew tracked down matching moulding, a second-floor porch rebuild with a new bay-window wall and reshingled facade, a kitchen renovation that grew out of a smaller job, and a wall removal and closet renovation in a condo. A 2020 review on Angi described a rubber roof installed on an unusually low-pitch room and noted it had held up with zero issues five years later — the kind of detail that speaks to how the work actually performs over time, not just how the crew presents on the day. Eric personally comes up by name across dozens of reviews spanning 2020 through 2026, most describing him directly assessing a problem before quoting it and consulting with homeowners at each step if something unexpected turned up. The company is listed as an Owens Corning Preferred Roofing Contractor on both its own site and its Angi profile, and the Better Business Bureau lists it at 19 years in business with an A+ rating, though it isn't a BBB-accredited business. There isn't much to flag going in. The written record here doesn't surface a single complaint, though new reviews have come in slowly lately — just one in the past six months — so it's worth confirming current scheduling and availability directly. Doherty Customs is a strong option for a roofing job, especially something unusual or previously rejected by other contractors, and for South Shore homeowners tackling a historic-home restoration or a multi-trade project who want the same person overseeing it from estimate to cleanup.