Kevin E Hickey

Kevin E Hickey is a Belmont roofer with an unusually long permit trail: 207 permitted projects on public record, worked through Belmont, Boston, West Roxbury, Dorchester, Newton, Everett, Malden, Quincy, Revere and Nahant. What he takes on is roofing, gutters and flashing, and skylights. Nine of those projects fall in the last three years, and the typical permit runs around $12,700 — the scale of a residential reroof rather than a whole-house build. Two other family principals are listed alongside him, Richard Hickey and Richard L Hickey. What does not exist is any customer voice. BuildZoom states plainly that it has received no reviews for this contractor, so there is no rating, no star average and no written account of how any of those 207 jobs actually went. Permit volume establishes that a business is real and working steadily; it says nothing about workmanship, cleanup, or whether anyone came back to fix a problem. Licensing is the part that cannot be settled from what is published, and it needs care. BuildZoom lists eleven licence records across seven different types, and they contradict one another: the number 25817 appears three times under three separate headings, 81034 appears twice, there are two different Home Improvement Contractor numbers and two different Construction Supervisor numbers, and two records read Active while carrying expiry dates of December 2022 and May 2012. Every remaining record is marked inactive or cancelled, and the same page carries an alert reading 'No active license on file.' None of that is a state registry check, and directory licence data in this shape is unreliable in both directions — it is not proof he is licensed, and it is not proof he is not. Worth knowing that Massachusetts exempts roofing-only work from Home Improvement Contractor registration, so a lapsed HIC number is not automatically a fault for this trade. A Construction Supervisor licence is a separate matter and is the one that governs structural work. So ask him directly for current licence and insurance certificates and check the numbers yourself with the Department of Public Safety and with Consumer Affairs before signing anything. Ask for addresses of roofs he has done locally in the past year as well — with nothing published from any customer, references are the only read on quality available here.