Tomas Velasquez

Strip a roof to the deck, lay ice-and-water shield, architectural asphalt shingles, a new chimney cap with copper flashing and a ridge vent cap — that 2024 job on Beach Street in Manchester, permitted at $51,000, is the kind of work Tomas Velasquez's permits keep coming back to. Twelve permitted projects are on file at BuildZoom, and most of them are exterior. The roof replacements run along the North Shore and up into Newburyport: $35,000 at Smiths Point Road in Manchester, jobs on Lincoln Street and Warren Street in Newburyport — one of them an EPDM rubber roof — plus Marsh Avenue in Beverly and a garage roof in Methuen. Siding arrives with the same completeness. A $26,150 Danvers permit in 2022 covered pulling a layer of siding, then house wrap, J-channel, vinyl siding and soffits, aluminium flashing wrapped around fascia, rake, windows and doors on both house and garage, and new seamless aluminium gutters and downspouts. Carpentry shows up as well. A $16,000 Methuen permit rebuilt a Trex composite deck on bigfoot footings with PVC rail guards, a Haverhill permit covered a deck renovation, and a $59,000 Wakefield permit converted a two-family into a three-family. One commercial permit opened a non-load-bearing partition in a Boston store. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts construction supervisor licence, CS-115055, and a home improvement contractor number, 195091, for him, and its profile also lists kitchen, bathroom, basement and whole-home remodels and additions among services offered. For a full roof or a siding-and-gutter package on the North Shore, this is squarely the work these permits describe. Before hiring, confirm both licence numbers directly with the Massachusetts state register — BuildZoom's page does not describe 195091 the same way in two places — ask for a certificate of insurance, and get the scope written out the way the Beach Street permit reads: deck, underlayment, flashing and vents each named.