640 permitted jobs is a long paper trail for a roofer, and Joseph Savini Contracting has one — strip-and-reroof, gutter and siding work logged across Boston, Somerville, Newton, Belmont, Malden, Danvers and Quincy, at a typical permit value near $8,000. The company works out of 40 Canal St in Medford; its BBB page puts the start date at 1977, counts 16 employees, and names Joseph S. Savini as president.
The people who hired them write about roofs, and about speed. A Medford homeowner in a 2025 review described a 100-year-old house with multiple pitches and angles, two layers of old roofing to strip, sheathing to repair and an old roof fan to work around — finished quickly, at a price they called fair, with the crew standing behind it when questions came up the following year. A 2022 review put roughly 1,000 square feet, tear-off and plywood disposal included, inside a single day. Google averages 4.6 across 29 ratings, and the tenure customers claim is unusual: one describes ten years of maintenance on a slate roof, another thirty years of calling the same company.
The smaller jobs show up too — moss cleared off a garage roof, two separate leak repairs that stayed fixed, rot found mid-job and fixed after the homeowner was told about it. That last detail is the one worth noticing: several reviewers mention being informed of extra work before it happened rather than after.
Two things are worth raising before you call. The Massachusetts registry lists the company's home improvement contractor registration, number 135743, as expired, with Joseph Savini as the holder of record; BuildZoom's licence list points the same way, showing every home improvement contractor and construction supervisor entry as inactive and only an electrician licence as active. Ask which registration covers your job before you sign. And getting a quote is not guaranteed — a 2024 reviewer said a request for an estimate went unanswered while the company's mailing list kept arriving.
The written customer history runs 2021 through mid-2025, so even the newest account is over a year old, though permit activity continues at twelve projects across the last three years by BuildZoom's count. For a straightforward tear-off and reshingle, a rubber roof on a flat section, or ongoing upkeep of an older slate roof in Medford and the towns around it, this is a shop with decades of jobs behind it and a consistent story from the people who hired it. Confirm the current registration status, and get the estimate in writing before work starts.