Joe Bue

Strip the old roof, lay GAF architectural shingles — that one job runs through nearly all of Joe Bue's permitted work. He works out of 14 Island Rd in Groton, and the jobs land across Lowell, Methuen, Westford and Dunstable, most of them valued between $4,000 and $32,000, with four on a single street in Methuen. Two vinyl-siding jobs and one chimney removal round out the list. Take the headline count with some salt. The page advertises 89 permitted projects, but several are listed twice under identical permit numbers — R-20-1716, R-21-1333 and R-20-1702 among them — so the true total is lower than 89. Nobody has written about what it was like to hire him. BuildZoom holds no reviews for this contractor, and the score of 99 on the page is built from permits and licence records rather than from customers, as the page itself explains. The licence block deserves the same caution. Six records cover seven type labels under only three numbers: CSSL-099133 appears three times on its own, once as a construction supervisor specialty and again under roofing and windows-and-siding labels, and home improvement contractor registration #135391 carries an issue date of 04-01-2026 that falls after the March 2026 verification the page claims for it. Those are the directory's records, not a state registry confirmation. For a full tear-off and re-roof in asphalt shingle, this is a narrow, deep specialty — the same job repeated dozens of times across the Merrimack Valley. Ask for the construction supervisor and home improvement contractor numbers directly, check them with the state, and since nothing is written down publicly, ask for addresses from recent jobs near you.