Joseph Savini Contracting

Joseph Savini Contracting is a Medford roofing company that Better Business Bureau records show has operated since 1977, run by Joseph S. Savini. It's best known locally for roofing — full replacements, repairs, slate maintenance, and moss removal — though BBB also lists gutters, windows and doors, painting and demolition among its services. Twenty reviews from 2021 through 2025 are overwhelmingly positive, and several describe a genuinely long relationship: one customer has used the company for slate roof maintenance for over 10 years, another for more than 30, both citing consistent quality and fair pricing. Others describe fast, clean work on demanding jobs — stripping two layers of old roofing and repairing sheathing on a 100-year-old house, tearing off and replacing about 1,000 square feet of roofing in a single day, and leaving yards cleaner than they found them. Multiple reviewers who've hired the company more than once for different projects report the same consistency each time. One 2024 review broke that pattern: the reviewer said a request for an estimate went unanswered, and the company added them to its mailing list without asking. There's a real gap worth knowing about directly: its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, verified against the state registry, is listed as expired, and BuildZoom's directory separately shows the business's other Home Improvement Contractor and Construction Supervisor license entries as inactive. BuildZoom's own permit record — 640 projects overall — also shows a marked slowdown, with only 12 permits pulled in the past three years against a much larger historical total. For roofing work specifically, the review history here is deep and consistently strong. Given the licensing status, it's worth asking directly about current registration and how the company handles permitting before signing a contract.