Marine Home Improvement Inc

Marine Home Improvement has two distinct chapters in its written history. The recent one — dozens of Google reviews from 2021 through 2025, almost all five stars — describes an owner named Mike who answers quickly, quotes fairly, and gets a roof replaced in a single day more often than not; several customers say they've hired the crew more than once. The older one, a handful of Angi reviews from 2018 and 2019, describes something rougher: a Hardiplank siding job that started failing within a month and led to litigation, a chimney and dormer flashing job done improperly by a crew the customer couldn't communicate with, and an owner who, in two separate accounts, disappeared after collecting a deposit or delivered the wrong siding materials three times over. The company describes itself as a Massachusetts roofing and siding contractor also offering windows and decking, GAF Certified, with decades of experience across greater Eastern Massachusetts — though its own site gives two different numbers for that history, "over 33 years" in one place and "nearly three decades" in another. Reviewers from the more recent period describe a wide range of exterior work: a three-story colonial fully resided with new gutters, trim, and 18 replacement windows; a back porch demolished and rebuilt; cedar-shingle siding; window reframing in PVC with an added stove vent. The same names — Mike, and in older reviews Michel Trankels — come up across both eras. One fact worth confirming directly: the company's Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is currently listed as expired. That, paired with the older complaints, is worth raising even though the last several years of reviews on file read very differently — a 2019 reviewer described the owner refusing to fix a failing Hardiplank installation while facing legal action from both that customer and a neighbor, and a 2018 reviewer described being unable to get the owner to check on the crew after a deposit was paid. Marine Home Improvement's recent record for straightforward roofing and siding work is strong and consistent. Given the older, more serious complaints and the expired registration, a homeowner considering a larger or more unusual exterior project would do well to confirm current licensing directly, get everything — materials, timeline, and warranty terms — in writing, and ask for references from a job completed in the last year or two.