Hollstein Roofing, Inc.

Hollstein Roofing, Inc. is a South Shore roofing contractor that the directories list at 14 Hanover St, Suite 11 in Hanover, while the company's own website gives 823 South Franklin Street in Holbrook — worth confirming which door you are dealing with before you sign. Its own copy describes commercial, industrial and residential roofing with a full-service maintenance department, and says it has been in business "over 40 years"; the Better Business Bureau puts the start date at 1980, incorporation in 1987, ten employees, and names David Hollstein as president. The credentials here are unusually solid for a small roofer. The Massachusetts registry confirms Home Improvement Contractor licence 147431 as active, held of record by HOLLSTEIN ROOFING INC. — the company itself, not a look-alike entity. The BBB has accredited the business since August 2016 and grades it A+. What the permit record shows is a heavily commercial practice. BuildZoom lists 59 permitted projects, and the sampled ones are large flat-roof jobs — fully adhered EPDM at a Roxbury property, two rounds of work at a Braintree commercial building, an EPDM recover in Norwell, a PVC system in Boston's Fenway — alongside one small asphalt shingle job on a Holbrook house. A commenter in r/massachusetts, asked about metal roof installers in eastern Massachusetts, answered that "Hollstein Roofing In Hanover does them for Commercial and Residential." That is one person's referral, not a verified account of a job. No rating is published because there is no customer voice on file to base one on: neither the BBB page nor the BuildZoom profile carries a star average or a single review body, and the BuildZoom "99" is a permit-derived score, not customer sentiment. Two things are worth raising directly. First, the BuildZoom licence bundle prints ONE number, CSSL-099992, three separate times under three different licence types and also lists an inactive Home Improvement Contractor number and a cancelled City of Newton building licence — treat the whole bundle as the directory's bookkeeping, not as five credentials. Second, Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents decisions name Hollstein Roofing, Inc. as the employer in a workers' compensation dispute, which is a workplace matter rather than a customer complaint but is on the public record. If you have a flat commercial roof on the South Shore or in Boston, this is a firm with real depth in that work and a live state registration. If you are a homeowner, ask for recent residential references by name, confirm the licence number yourself with the Office of Consumer Affairs, and get the scope and warranty in writing.