When the ice dams came in the winter of 2026, one Wakefield number kept getting called. Across late January and early February, more than a dozen homeowners told nearly the same story about Stride Services: phoned in the afternoon, looked at the same day, a crew chipping ice off the roof by the next morning — one of them on a Sunday, another working into the dark over a family room that had already started to leak.
Stride is a small Wakefield company run by Andrew "Andy" Doulis, and the work runs much wider than storm calls: roof replacements, siding, gutters and skylights, decks and porches, masonry and chimney pointing, plus the occasional interior rebuild. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active, held under the company's own name, and its Better Business Bureau page carries an A+ grade.
The through-line across 98 Google reviews running from 2023 to now is response speed paired with price. A homeowner who collected three roof quotes in January 2026 wrote that Stride's came in "considerably less" than the other two, the crew stripped and replaced the roof in a single day, and left the property clean. A customer whose garage was re-sided in June 2026 said the job also took in a structurally awkward side door and moss removal from the shingles, and called the total cost very reasonable. Back in a May 2024 review, a man with forty years in construction hired Stride to roof his barn and singled out the crew for wearing proper safety gear, working into the evening, and returning the next day to pull the dumpster.
The range is real, and it is the reason people keep coming back. One June 2026 customer listed a demolished-and-rebuilt porch and pergola, a foundation repair under a floating living room, a reframed garage door and an insulated basement room — all from the same crew. Others describe an aluminum-to-vinyl siding replacement in June 2025, stairs and balusters built to a written set of priced options with no cost surprises, and repeated leak chases on roofs, skylights and decks.
Two things worth raising before booking. Weather slippage comes up more than once — a garage re-side and a 2025 siding job both ran a few days late on rain — and that 2025 siding customer also had a short punch list at the end, handled quickly, but worth agreeing how the final walkthrough works. And read the reviews with an eye on who wrote them: a December 2025 five-star comment is from Telecom Consultants LLC, a solar broker that refers roofing work to Stride, not a homeowner who hired them.
If you have storm damage, a roof to replace, or exterior work with a deadline attached, this is the kind of shop that answers the phone. Get the scope and the punch-list process in writing, and confirm the registration number with the state before work starts.