Storm Guard Restoration of SW Boston

Storm Guard of SW Boston is an insurance-restoration outfit — the crew you call after a storm strips shingles, when the harder fight is with the adjuster rather than the roof. It works out of 639 Granite Street in Braintree under owner Darren Plokhooy, and the BBB records it as a one-employee LLC started in May 2014, graded A+ though not BBB accredited. Its permit history is the fullest thing on file: 75 permitted projects on BuildZoom, mostly strip-and-reroof work around Milton, Needham, Newton and Quincy, and almost all of it filed between 2018 and 2020. Just one permit has been pulled in the past two years. The written customer accounts are few and old. In July 2018 a customer called the roof build incredible, said the workmen worked hard, and was happy with the quality for the price. In August 2015 another was furious: after asking the sales manager and project manager several times to cover her vegetable garden, the crew flattened her tomatoes during the roof and took out a six-foot sunflower when they returned for the siding. Her complaint was communication, not shingles. Licensing takes a phone call. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts home improvement registration, #179378, as active from its own July 2026 check, alongside a City of Newton general contractor licence carrying a listed December 2022 expiration and three older Newton and Massachusetts registrations it records as cancelled. Those are the directory's entries, not a state confirmation. The addresses don't line up either — the BBB file gives a Washington Street address in Boston, while Houzz and BuildZoom both give the Braintree office. If a storm just hit and you want someone who will work the claim alongside the repair, that is what they are set up for. Ask what they have completed in the last two years, get property protection written into the contract — tarps over plantings, where the dumpster sits — and check the registration number with the Commonwealth yourself.