Professional Roofing Contractors

Professional Roofing Contractors is a small, long-running Salem shop run by president James W. Shea that specializes in slate, rubber-membrane and copper roofing on commercial and high-end residential buildings around Greater Boston — BuildZoom's public permit record lists 98 projects dominated by Carlisle EPDM rubber roof installs on churches, schools and rectories, plus slate replacements, asphalt-shingle re-roofs and copper cornice work. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active, verified against the state registry. How long the company has been around depends on which page you read: its own site says Shea has operated it since 1965 and puts it at 61 years in business, while BBB lists the company as established in 1976 and incorporated in 1987 with 50 years in business — worth asking Shea directly which history is accurate. There's almost nothing to go on for customer sentiment — Google shows a single 2025 review ('Very nice'), and BBB has no rating for the company because it says it has insufficient information and the business isn't accredited. That means the permit record, not reviews, is the main evidence of what this company actually does; get a couple of direct references before hiring, especially for a residential job outside its institutional-roofing bread and butter.