Paul J Trischitta

Paul J Trischitta is a roofer working out of 181 Stedman St in Lowell. Roofing and skylights are what he offers, and the permit record backs that up almost exclusively. The work on file is real and reasonably varied in scale. Across 34 permitted projects the largest are commercial: a $79,842 roof-membrane replacement by ballast shift in Chelmsford in 2019, and a $46,476 60-mil EPDM roof system on a Boston building in 2023. The residential jobs are the more instructive ones because the permits spell out the method — an $11,687 Chelmsford re-roof that tore off and de-nailed down to the wood substrate, replaced any rotted boards, and installed ice-and-water shield six feet up from the leading edge plus at valleys, walls and every roof penetration before synthetic felt, new drip edge and shingles. Others include an $18,372 strip-and-re-roof in Norwell, a $13,500 asphalt replacement in Taunton and an $11,913 tear-off in East Boston. The footprint is wide for a one-man operation: Lowell, Chelmsford, Boston, East Boston, Norwell, Taunton and East Falmouth. On credentials, the state registry itself confirms a Home Improvement Contractor registration in his own name — number 151273 — and confirms it as EXPIRED. That matters less for roofing than it would for most trades, because Massachusetts exempts roofing-only work from HIC registration under MGL c.142A §14; it matters a great deal if you are hiring him for the siding side of his licence, which is not exempt. Ask which registration will be in place before any non-roofing work starts. Note too that a directory separately lists a different HIC number, 134336, as inactive and once cancelled, so there are two registration numbers in circulation for the same person and neither is current. What is entirely absent is customer feedback. The only source carrying a full profile of this business has never received a single review, so its score of 92 is calculated from permits and licence status and reflects nothing about how any job actually went. Recent activity is also thin — that directory records just three permits in the last three years against 34 lifetime. A plausible call for a straightforward tear-off and re-roof from someone with a documented method and a real commercial as well as residential history. Because there is no public customer record at all, ask for two or three recent local references you can call, get the ice-and-water and underlayment specification in writing, and confirm his current registration and insurance directly with the state before work starts.