Shakes To Shingles

Shakes To Shingles is the founding name of what's now Northeast Air Sealing, a Concord, NH home-performance contractor Rich Burns started in 2004 doing energy audits, blower-door testing, insulation and AeroBarrier air sealing across New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. It's a Home Performance with ENERGY STAR partner, and public permit records show an $84,459 re-insulation job at a Concord address in 2024. The company also holds a Massachusetts home improvement contractor license, registered to Richard Burns personally, that is currently expired. Its written review history is thin — three reviews, all five stars, from 2023 and 2024 — but each is specific. One describes insulating an entire condo association in Gilford, a job the reviewer called huge but handled cleanly, safely and at a good price. Another credits an AeroBarrier air-sealing job with bringing a home's leakage under its target rate. A third comes from a fellow general contractor, who singled out the office and field staff as competent and timely compared to other companies he'd worked with. With the business having recently rebranded and its Massachusetts license currently lapsed, it's worth confirming current licensing status directly and asking which name — Shakes To Shingles or Northeast Air Sealing — is on the contract before booking.