Hughes Sheet Metal Inc

A sheet metal shop that has been at work in Fall River since 1892 — by its own account four generations of the Hughes family, now led by owner and president John Hughes. Ductwork comes first: custom rectangular, round and spiral duct fabricated in-house, complete HVAC systems designed, installed and maintained, plus architectural copperwork, industrial fabrication and fire and smoke damper installation, for commercial and residential clients across Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Its Massachusetts sheet metal licence, 115-SM-B, is active. The BBB page carries an A+ grade — the company is not accredited — and lists 20 employees with John Hughes as president. The permit record is where the scale shows. Building permits tie the company to 13 projects, the largest a $1,059,000 institutional ductwork job on County Street in Taunton in 2025, alongside bank, retail and single-family duct work in Hingham, Milton and Newton. A duct manufacturer's page from 2015 describes a flat oval installation by Hughes in a historic building renovation. The homeowner side of the record is thin: three Google ratings and no written accounts to read. That is a common shape for a shop whose bigger work is commercial and institutional, but it means the residential experience is undocumented. Right call if you need fabricated ductwork or a commercial HVAC system from a shop with this much history behind it — and worth asking for residential references directly, since none are published.