About All Pro Phoenix Roofing

ALL PRO PHOENIX CORP is a roofing company, not a sales organization that happens to own ladders. Paulo Silva runs it, and Paulo Silva is on job sites — which is the reason the reviews we do have all mention the same thing: somebody explained the work to them.

We started the way most honest trade businesses start. One truck, referrals, and a refusal to leave a mess behind. We have been servicing Boston and the surrounding areas for many years now, and the model has not changed: small enough that the owner sees your roof, big enough to strip and dry-in a full house in a day.

Why we work on both sides of Route 128

Our shop sits in Danvers, which puts us at the seam between two completely different roofing markets. That is not an accident and it is not a compromise — it is the reason we can do work most crews specialize away from.

South of us is the city. Dorchester, South Boston, Somerville, Chelsea — a hundred-year-old triple-decker belt where the roofs are flat or nearly flat, the sheathing is board rather than plywood, there is no side yard to stage from, and the building next door shares your wall. That work is about flat and low-slope membrane systems, drainage, and knowing how to get material three stories up a street with no parking.

East and north of us is salt air. Marblehead, Swampscott, Beverly, Gloucester — where the shingles are fine but the fasteners are rusting out, where FEMA guidance calls for stainless within three thousand feet of the water, and where wind uplift matters more than snow. Mixing copper flashing with galvanized nails on a coastal roof will eat the job alive in five years. We do not do that.

What we will not do

• We will not overlay a roof that should be torn off. A second layer hides rotted decking, adds dead load, voids most manufacturer warranties, and makes the next roof more expensive. Massachusetts code also flatly prohibits overlaying slate, clay tile, cement tile, wood shake, and asbestos-cement.
• We will not skip the ice barrier. MA code requires self-adhering membrane from the eave to at least 24 inches inside the exterior wall line — and 36 inches up-slope on pitches of 8:12 or steeper. On a steep Victorian that is two or three courses, not one, and it is not the place to save $300.
• We will not offer to cover your insurance deductible. It is illegal in Massachusetts and it is the single clearest signal that a contractor is padding the claim. Anyone who offers is telling you something about how they run every other part of the job.
• We will not sell you a roof you do not need. If your roof has eight years left, we will tell you that and quote the flashing repair instead. We would rather have the call in eight years than the complaint next month.

Licensing, insurance, and the paperwork you should demand

Massachusetts requires a Home Improvement Contractor registration for residential work on existing owner-occupied 1–4 unit homes, and a Construction Supervisor License as the license of record on the building permit. A legitimate roofer carries both. You can verify any contractor for free through the state HIC lookup, and you should — working with an unregistered contractor costs you access to the Guaranty Fund and weakens your position under Chapter 93A.

We carry general liability and workers’ compensation, and certificates come with the estimate. If a roofer will not hand those over before work starts, that is your answer. Read more about how we handle roof inspections and what a real written estimate should contain.