# George Skipper & Son Inc

**Trade:** Paving · **Address:** 60 Perch Pond Rd, Chatham, MA 02633 · **Phone:** (508) 945-9673 · **Website:** https://skipperpaving.com · **Languages:** English

**Rating: 3.5/5** (low confidence) — from 0 reviews across 3 sources. A 0–5 star rating built from what customers and the public say (every review and mention weighted by where it was posted, how old, how detailed and how credible it is, shrunk toward a 3.5★ baseline when evidence is thin) plus what the record shows (Reddit recommendations or warnings, a registry-verified licence, how recently they were reviewed, customer work photos, BBB grade, negative news, a revoked licence). Positive record counts only as far as the reviews have earned it; penalties count in full. Confidence describes how much weighted evidence stands behind the number, never the number itself: low when fewer than about five normal reviews' worth of weight (or mentions only) support it, medium up to about twenty, high beyond that across at least two sources. An operator flag for a suspicious review pattern caps a rating at 3.5★ and marks it low.

## The honest read

George Skipper & Son Inc is a Chatham paving contractor working across Cape Cod, and one of the oldest names in the trade here: the company's own site says founder George Skipper started roadwork in 1927 and opened his own residential and commercial paving business in late 1945, with his eldest son taking it over as George Skipper & Son Paving. The About page is signed by George (Pete) Skipper, President, and the company describes itself as family-owned.

The work it advertises is asphalt in its various forms — asphalt, chip-seal and macadam driveways, private roads and tennis courts. That mix is a Cape specialty in itself: chip seal and macadam are what many older Cape properties and association roads use instead of plain blacktop.

On the public record, the strongest signal is a neighbour's recommendation. In a March 2026 Nextdoor thread from a homeowner asking who to use to replace a shell driveway with blacktop, a Chatham resident answered simply with the company name, its phone number and its town. That is a genuine word-of-mouth nod, but it is one line, not a description of a finished job.

What this file does not contain is a body of customer reviews — there are no star ratings or written reviews here from any platform, so nothing speaks first-hand to price, crew, timeline or clean-up. The BBB profile is consistent with that: it lists the business at 60 Perch Pond Dr in Chatham, records zero complaints, and states plainly that BBB does not have enough information to issue a rating; the business is not BBB accredited.

One date to keep straight: the BBB record shows the entity as started 1/1/1993 with five employees, while the company's own history dates the family business to 1945 — the 1993 date most likely reflects the current corporate entity rather than the trading history.

Before booking, ask for recent Cape driveway references you can look at, and get the surface spelled out in writing — asphalt versus chip seal versus macadam behave differently over sand and tree roots, so the quote should say which one, how thick, and what base prep is included.

**Strengths:**
- Cape driveways — asphalt, chip seal and macadam all offered
- Neighbour recommendation — a Chatham resident named them in a 2026 driveway thread
- Long family history — company dates its paving work to 1945
- Clean complaint record — BBB lists zero complaints on file

**Concerns:**
- No customer reviews — nothing first-hand about price, crew or timeline
- BBB not rated — the bureau says it lacks information to rate them
- Entity dates differ — BBB says started 1993, the company says 1945

**Where sources disagree:**
- Founding date: the company's own history says 1945 while the BBB record shows the business started 1/1/1993.
- Street name: the BBB profile says 60 Perch Pond Dr; the address on file is 60 Perch Pond Rd.

## Claims & citations

Every claim below is backed by real evidence rows — uncited claims are dropped in code before publication.

- Builds and maintains asphalt, chip-seal and macadam driveways, private roads and tennis courts across Cape Cod (company's own description). _(confidence: high)_
  - [Official Website](https://skipperpaving.com) — “A Chatham family paving contractor that builds and maintains asphalt, chip-seal and macadam driveways, private roads and tennis courts acros…”
- The company says its founder began roadwork in 1927 and started his own residential and commercial paving business in late 1945, later passed to his eldest son. _(confidence: medium)_
  - [Official Website](https://skipperpaving.com) — “Company history (self-reported): The site says the founder George Skipper began doing roadwork in 1927 for a large New England company and s…”
- Describes itself as a family-owned company; the About page is signed by George (Pete) Skipper, President. _(confidence: medium)_
  - [Official Website](https://skipperpaving.com) — “Ownership (self-reported): Family company; the About page is signed by George (Pete) Skipper, President, the founder's eldest son.”
  - [Official Website](https://skipperpaving.com) — “Stated ownership (self-reported): Family-owned”
- A Chatham neighbour recommended the firm by name, phone and town in a March 2026 Nextdoor thread from a homeowner replacing a shell driveway with blacktop. _(confidence: medium)_
  - [Nextdoor](https://nextdoor.com/p/8ygNJrcqptCy) — “Nextdoor (Chatham, MA) — Skipper & Son, 508-945-9673, in Chatham”
- The BBB has no complaints on file for the business. _(confidence: high)_
  - [Better Business Bureau](https://www.bbb.org/us/ma/chatham/profile/paving-contractors/george-skipper-son-inc-0021-430910) — “0 complaint(s) on file (count only)”
- The BBB profile is not accredited and explicitly not rated — BBB says it does not have sufficient information to issue a rating, and publishes no reviews or star average. _(confidence: high)_
  - [Better Business Bureau](https://www.bbb.org/us/ma/chatham/profile/paving-contractors/george-skipper-son-inc-0021-430910) — “BBB profile for George Skipper & Son Inc at 60 Perch Pond Dr, Chatham: explicitly NOT BBB accredited and explicitly NOT RATED ('BBB does not…”
- The read rests on one Nextdoor recommendation plus the company's own website; no customer reviews are present in this file. _(confidence: high)_
  - [Official Website](https://skipperpaving.com) — “A Chatham family paving contractor that builds and maintains asphalt, chip-seal and macadam driveways, private roads and tennis courts acros…”
  - [Nextdoor](https://nextdoor.com/p/8ygNJrcqptCy) — “Nextdoor (Chatham, MA) — Skipper & Son, 508-945-9673, in Chatham”
- Specializes in Paving _(confidence: high)_
  - [Official Website](https://skipperpaving.com) — “A Chatham family paving contractor that builds and maintains asphalt, chip-seal and macadam driveways, private roads and tennis courts acros…”
  - [Better Business Bureau](https://www.bbb.org/us/ma/chatham/profile/paving-contractors/george-skipper-son-inc-0021-430910) — “Services offered (Better Business Bureau): Paving Contractors”
  - [Nextdoor](https://nextdoor.com/p/8ygNJrcqptCy) — “Nextdoor (Chatham, MA) — Skipper & Son, 508-945-9673, in Chatham”

## Ownership

- Identifies as family-owned — the business's own statement, not independently verified.

## License

Status: **not_found** — verified against the official MA state registry, never self-reported.
Re-check at the official registry: https://contractorhub.mass.gov/s/hic-contractor-search

## Sources

- [Better Business Bureau](https://www.bbb.org/us/ma/chatham/profile/paving-contractors/george-skipper-son-inc-0021-430910): Listed on this source
- [Official Website](https://skipperpaving.com): Self-reported profile and service details
- [Exa](https://b2-assets.dandb.com/businessdirectory/georgeskippersoninc-chatham-ma-5676890.html): 0 web mentions across the open web (each linked to its source)

## Mentions

Unverified third-party mentions found on the open web — relay with attribution ("a Reddit commenter said…"), never as Tavlee's own finding.

- “Skipper & Son, 508-945-9673, in Chatham” — nextdoor.com (2026-03-29) — https://nextdoor.com/p/8ygNJrcqptCy

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