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Roofers In Brookline, MA.
Brookline charges $20 per $1,000 of job value for the building permit. If your house sits in one of the 9 local historic districts, synthetic slate is ruled out on any roof you can see from the street. And no dumpster goes on a Brookline street between November 15 and April 15. None of that is on the contractor lists you just scrolled past, so we put it here first, then we show you the photos and do the roof right.
The sentence no roofing page in this town quotes
Why Does Brookline’s Bylaw Treat a Roof Like a Demolition?
Article 5.3 of Brookline’s General By-Laws defines demolition as “the act of pulling down, destroying, removing or razing a Building or a significant portion thereof, by removing one side of the building, or removing the roof, or removing 25% of the structure.” Removing the roof is in the definition, in the bylaw’s own words.
Read that carefully before you panic. A shingle tear-off that leaves the framing and the sheathing where they are is not normally handled as a demolition, and the Building Department issues roofing permits in Brookline every week without a Preservation hearing. The line is the structure, not the covering.
Here is where it stops being academic. Change the shape of the roof and you are in different territory. A shed dormer on the back. Raising a ridge for headroom. Altering a pitch. Taking a porch roof off entirely rather than reroofing it. Those touch the structure, and Brookline’s demolition review is a town-wide bylaw. It does not stop at the historic district boundary. Every building in Brookline is potentially reviewable.
If the Preservation Commission finds a building Significant, the bylaw imposes a stay of one year. For a building listed on or eligible for the National or State Register, it is eighteen months. That is the whole project, parked, while a hole in your schedule turns into a hole in your budget.
months, standard stay
Imposed from a final determination that the building is Significant. A tear-off and reroof will not normally get you here. A roof-shape change on an older Brookline house can.
months, Register properties
Longer stay for a building listed on or eligible for the National or State Register, per Section 5.3.5(b). Register status you did not know about is the usual way people find this out.
of the structure
One of the 3 thresholds in the definition, alongside removing one side of the building and removing the roof. Worth knowing when a reroof turns into structural repair after the deck comes off.
There is a second half to this bylaw that cuts the other way, and it is the argument for fixing a roof you have been putting off. Brookline defines demolition by neglect to include “failure to take reasonable measures to prevent the ingress of water, snow, ice, and wind through the roof, walls, or apertures.” A leaking roof on a protected building is not only your problem. It is a bylaw problem.
So the honest summary. Reroofing your Brookline house is a building permit, not a Preservation case. Redesigning your roof might be both. The 5 minutes it takes to call Preservation staff before you draw the dormer is the cheapest insurance on the job, and no page on the first results screen tells you to make that call.
9 districts, and the town’s own page still says 8
Which Brookline Streets Sit Inside a Protected District?
Brookline has 9 local historic districts, and inside them the Preservation Commission reviews exterior changes visible from a public way before the Building Department issues your permit. Your roof is an exterior change visible from a public way.
The Preservation Commission page on the town website lists 8 districts. It leaves out Olmsted-Richardson, created in 2022. The town’s own full draft design guidelines list all 9. If your roofer checked the first page and told you that you are fine, that answer is 4 years out of date.
Now the part that decides what actually goes on your roof. The Town’s local historic district design guidelines are specific about roofing material, and 2 sentences in them will change a quote.
What the guidelines rule out
“Synthetic slate or tile should not be used.” Flat, no qualifier. The composite slate that half the market sells as the budget answer to a failing slate roof is not the answer here.
“Rubber and TPO membrane roofing should not be used in locations visible from a public way, unless on flat roofs.” That one matters on mansards and visible low-slope sections.
What they ask for instead
“Slate and terra cotta tile roofing should be repaired or replicated in-kind, including color, decorative patterns and style.”
In kind means slate for slate, and the pattern and color matched. That is a different trade and a different number from an asphalt tear-off, which is exactly why you want to know before you collect 3 quotes that are not quoting the same roof.
Solar sits in the middle. The guidelines say a system should not be visible from a public way, a park or a body of water, and that installations on slate and terracotta “may be considered on a case-by-case basis if the system is designed to require minimal alteration to the historic roof.” Case by case is not no. It is a conversation to have with the Commission before the panels are on the truck, and one worth having while the roof is open rather than 2 years later.
How to check your own address in 10 minutes
Nobody on the results page tells you how to do this, so here it is, 3 sources and what each one answers.
Brookline GIS
The town’s Find Property Information map carries the local historic district overlays. This answers the only question that controls your material choice: am I inside a district boundary or not.
MACRIS
The Massachusetts Historical Commission database at mhc-macris.net tells you whether your building is listed on or eligible for the National or State Register. That does not control your shingles. It does control whether a demolition stay would be 12 months or 18.
Preservation staff
Call them. A 5 minute conversation settles whether your specific project needs review, and staff can often approve minor in-kind work without a full Commission hearing. Do this before you sign, not after the dumpster is booked.
One distinction worth holding onto, because contractors blur it constantly. National Register listing on its own does not give any board authority over your roof. It is honorific, plus a planning flag, plus the thing that stretches a demolition delay from 12 months to 18. A local historic district under Massachusetts General Laws chapter 40C is the one with review power over what you can see from the street. Brookline has both, they cover different parcels, and being in one is not being in the other.
A formula, not a range
How Is the Brookline Permit Fee Actually Calculated?
$20 per $1,000 of construction value, or fraction thereof, with a $50 minimum. That is the published rate in the Town of Brookline permit fee schedule. It is arithmetic, not an estimate, and you can do it yourself before anyone comes to your house.
The best-ranked contractor page for Brookline gives you the Town Hall street address and a main switchboard number and stops there. The directory listicles do not mention a permit at all. The number below took us one page on the town website.
| Declared value of the work | Permit at $20 per $1,000 | If you start without it |
|---|---|---|
| $12,000 | $240 | $600 |
| $18,000 | $360 | $900 |
| $25,000 | $500 | $1,250 |
| $35,000 | $700 | $1,750 |
| $45,000 | $900 | $2,250 |
Two more lines from the same schedule that show up after the work is done rather than before it. Failing to call for the final inspection within 10 working days of completion is $50. A re-inspection is $50 per inspection. Neither is large. Both are avoidable, and both land on somebody, so ask which somebody before you sign.
A valuation-based fee has a useful side effect. It makes the permit a rough audit of the contract. If your roofer declares a lower value than the contract to shave the fee, they have understated your project to the town, and the paper trail on your house now says something different from what you paid. That is not a favor anyone did you.
On most residential filings the permit lands at well under 3 percent of the declared value. Anyone framing that as a reason for you to pull the permit yourself is doing arithmetic that falls apart in the next section.
The $25,000 sentence
Who Is Legally Supposed to File Your Permit?
The contractor’s, and Massachusetts attaches real money to that. The Home Improvement Contractor Guaranty Fund pays homeowners for actual loss up to $25,000 when a registered contractor leaves an unpaid court judgment or arbitration award. The Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation lists the eligibility conditions, and one of them reads: “The contractor, not the homeowner, secured the building permit.”
Brookline allows an owner-occupant of a 1 or 2 unit dwelling they live in to pull their own permit. Legal, and a trap. Pulling it yourself saves you the permit fee, a few hundred dollars on a typical residential filing, and gives up access to $25,000.
The cap
Actual loss, per claim. Older articles still say $10,000. The current figure on mass.gov is $25,000.
The other 5 conditions
A written contract for the job. The contractor registered with OCABR when you signed. A pre-existing 1 to 4 family home that is your primary residence. An unpaid judgment or arbitration award after reasonable collection efforts. A claim filed inside the statutory window.
Two cards, two agencies
HIC registration comes from OCABR. The Construction Supervisor License comes from the state building regulators and is separate. Brookline issues permits to a CSL holder who also holds HIC registration. Neither card alone is enough.
The red flag
“It is faster if you pull it” is not a scheduling tip. Sometimes it means the contractor’s HIC registration has lapsed and they cannot file. An expired registration is how building departments quietly stop people from pulling permits.
There is no standalone roofer license in Massachusetts, which is why “licensed roofer” on a website means nothing on its own. The CSL that covers reroofing is the Specialty roof covering license, designation RF, under 780 CMR R5. Its scope: “construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, or removal of roof covering, including repair and replacement of 25% of sheathing and 25% of sistering roof rafters.” Past those thresholds the job needs a broader CSL. On an older Brookline house with real deck rot, the license class on the permit is not a formality.
Look both up at the MA Contractor Hub, by company name and by the supervisor’s name, the morning you sign. We pull the Brookline permit in our name, every job. Ask us to write that into the contract and we will.
The permits that are not the building permit
Can a Dumpster Legally Sit on Your Street in January?
In Brookline, no. Between November 15 and April 15 the Town runs a winter moratorium and will not issue occupancy permits for dumpsters or moving boxes at all. That is 5 months of the year when a roof job on a street with no driveway has to be planned around a dump trailer, a same-day haul-off, or a neighbor’s driveway.
This is the part of a Brookline roof job that surprises people, because it has nothing to do with roofing. Putting anything in the public way here is a separate permit from a separate department, with its own fees and its own bond requirement. The 12 pages competing for this search mention none of it.
| Item | What it covers | Published rate |
|---|---|---|
| Occupancy permit | Dumpster, staging or crane in the public way | $75 per 30 days |
| No Parking signs | One space or about 20 feet each, posted the day before after 6pm | $5 each |
| Metered space rental | Per meter head, per day, not prorated | $24 per day |
| DPW bond | Contractor or equipment owner, required before issue | Required |
| Hot work permit | Torch-applied roofing and other open-flame work | $75 |
Stack the town’s own rates and you get a figure nobody publishes. Take an April reroof on an unmetered Brookline street, declared at $25,000 of work, with a dumpster out front for a week: $500 building permit, plus $75 occupancy, plus $10 for 2 No Parking signs. $585 owed to the Town before a shingle moves. Put the same filing on a metered block and 2 meter heads for 3 days adds $144, so $729. Run it in January and the dumpster line does not exist at any price.
The work-hour window, which is shorter than you think
Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Those are the hours in the Town’s own Building and Permits FAQ.
That weekday window looks generous until you price it against a tight Brookline lot. Material has to be staged, the street has to be managed, and a 7 a.m. start is a hard floor with neighbors on both sides 15 feet away. A crew that would finish a comparable roof in one long day in a suburb with a driveway and a clear lawn often runs to 2 days here. Anyone promising you a 6 a.m. start is promising something the bylaw does not allow.
Torch-applied flat roofing is a Fire Department matter
Brookline Fire lists torch applied roofing as hot work, in the same category as welding, cutting, grinding and soldering. The permit is $75. Every operator working under it needs the NFPA Hot Work Safety program or a Massachusetts Department of Fire Services equivalent, the application has to include a letter from the building owner giving permission, and most hot work requires a fire detail, which the permit specifies.
That lands squarely on the flat porch roofs, rear extensions and low-slope sections on Brookline Village and Coolidge Corner triple-deckers. Ask any flat-roof bidder one question: does your system involve an open flame. A fully adhered or mechanically fastened membrane does not. A torched modified bitumen does, and it changes the permit, the schedule and the day rate. A bid that is cheaper because it skipped the fire permit is not cheaper.
A number several pages get wrong, specifically about Brookline
Where Exactly Must the Ice Barrier Stop?
From the lowest edge of every roof surface to not less than 24 inches inside the exterior wall line. Then, on roofs pitched 8 in 12 or steeper, it must also run not less than 36 inches measured along the roof slope from the eave edge. Section R905.1.2 of the Massachusetts Residential Code. The same rule in Brookline as everywhere else in the state.
You may have read that Brookline amended this to 36 inches inside the wall line, along with Boston, Newton and Cambridge. We went looking for that amendment and it is not there. It traces to a single cost-guide table that cites nothing, and it fails on the law: 780 CMR 51.00 R102.2.2 makes the state code govern, and a stricter municipal standard has to go through the Board of Building Regulations and Standards under Massachusetts General Laws chapter 143, section 98. A town cannot simply decide to add a foot.
The real confusion is smaller and more useful. Both measurements exist and they are additive, not alternatives. The word in the code is “also.” On a steep Brookline Victorian both conditions apply and you install to whichever runs further. Most pages that touch the code at all collapse them into one number.
The assembly is specified too: not fewer than 2 layers of underlayment cemented together, or a self-adhering polymer-modified bitumen sheet. Felt at the edge does not satisfy it. Because the 24 inches is measured from inside the wall line rather than from the gutter, a deep overhang on an older Brookline house puts the real run at 3 to 6 feet up the slope, before you count valleys and penetrations.
The barrier keeps water out of your ceiling. It does not stop the dam. Heat leaking from the house into the roof deck is what builds one, so if ice dams are why you are calling and the quote says nothing about the attic, it is not answering your problem.
Two tools, no email required
What Will the Town Charge You Before Work Starts?
We do not publish roof prices, because every roof is different and a number without a scope behind it tells you nothing. What we can hand you is the part that is fixed and public: what the Town of Brookline charges before anyone climbs a ladder. These run in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere and there is no form behind the result.
1. Brookline town fee stack
Enter the construction value as it will be declared on the permit application, then tick what the job actually needs. Brookline assesses the building permit at $20 per $1,000 or fraction thereof, minimum $50. This works out what the Town charges. It is not a quote and it does not price the roofing work.
Rates from the Town of Brookline permit fee schedule and the street occupancy permit page, read 22 September 2026. Confirm both with the Town before you budget them. Remember the winter moratorium: no dumpster or moving-box occupancy permit is issued between November 15 and April 15, at any price.
2. Brookline quote scorecard
Tick every item your quote actually says in writing. Not what the estimator said in your kitchen. 12 items, and the ones you cannot tick are your questions.
From the roof, not the brochure
What Is Hiding Under a Brookline Roof Before We Open It?
The problem is rarely the shingle. From the ground a roof looks fine. Once you are on it you find lifted shingles, granule loss, reused flashing, soft sheathing, nail pops, cracked pipe boots and water tracks nobody noticed until they became a ceiling stain.
What follows is not a survey and it is not a statistic. It is the short list of what our crews write down most often on houses of this age, and the reason each one belongs in your quote before the tear-off rather than after it.
Pipe boots
The rubber collar around a vent pipe. Costs a few dollars, hardens and splits with age, and it is the single most common slow leak we get called about. Plenty of quotes reuse them.
Chimney flashing
Step flashing up the sides, counterflashing let into the masonry above it. On older Brookline houses with center chimneys this is where the water is, and it is the detail most often patched with caulk instead of metal.
Rotted decking
Invisible until the old roof is off. A per-sheet price agreed in advance turns it from an argument into a line item. On a Brookline house old enough to be Register-eligible, it can also be the moment a reroof starts touching structure.
Our services
Which Roofing Work Do We Handle in Brookline?
Residential work, with one point of contact from the first inspection to the final walkthrough. We install the full roofing system, because the roof is only as good as the deck, flashing, underlayment and ventilation under the shingles.
Roof Replacement
Full tear-off to the deck, then the complete GAF system: WeatherWatch leak barrier, FeltBuster synthetic underlayment, Pro-Start starter strips, Timberline HDZ architectural shingles, Cobra ridge vent and Seal-A-Ridge caps.
Roof Repair
Flashing, missing shingles, pipe boots, chimney leaks. We find the actual cause rather than the stain, and document it with photos.
Roof Inspections
Buying a house, past year 15, or after a storm. A documented photo inspection tells you what is real, what is urgent and what can wait, in plain English.
Flat & Low-Slope
Porch roofs, rear extensions and the low-slope sections on Brookline triple-deckers. Ask us which membrane we are proposing and whether it needs an open flame, because that answer changes the permit.
Attic Ventilation
Intake and exhaust checked and corrected. This is the part that actually controls ice dams, and it is one of the most skipped items in the trade.
Emergency Roof Repair
Water coming in now. We tarp and stabilize the leak, then schedule the permanent fix in daylight when it can be done properly.
Proof, not promises
What Separates Us From the Truck That Knocked on Your Door?
Owner-led. Powersol is owned by Manuel "Manny" Reynoso, who stays in the details because you are trusting us with one of the most important parts of the house. Tell you the truth, show you the photos, explain the options, do the job the right way.
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How it works
How Does a Job Run From First Call to Final Photo?
Inspection & photos
We inspect the roof and exterior, take photos, and explain what we see in plain English. Free, with no pressure attached to it.
Written scope, not a number
Repair or replace, with the photos to back it up. Materials, layer count, decking allowance per sheet, ice barrier distance, ventilation, permits, debris plan, timeline and cleanup. If it is not time yet, we say so.
Permits and install
We file the building permit in our name, check your parcel against the historic district overlays, and sort the debris plan before a truck moves. Then tear off to the deck, replace bad decking at the agreed price, and install drip edge, leak barrier, underlayment, starter, flashing, new pipe boots, Timberline HDZ, ridge vent and ridge cap.
Cleanup & walkthrough
Magnetic nail sweep, debris haul-away, final photos, and a walk-through of the finished work with you.
Most standard replacements go on in 1 to 2 days once material is on site and the weather holds. Our average install is about 1 day. On a tight Brookline lot inside a 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. window, plan for the longer end. We will not guarantee a date that weather can move, and anyone who does is guessing.
Honest gaps
Which Answers Are We Still Chasing?
Five things we went looking for and could not close from the public record. We would rather print the gap than a number we invented.
Exactly where a shingle tear-off sits against the demolition definition. The bylaw says removing the roof is demolition. It does not define whether that means the covering or the structure, and in practice Brookline issues roofing permits without Preservation review. We have described how it works rather than what the text could be read to mean. Confirm your own project with Preservation staff.
Whether the 2022 amendment temporarily extending the demolition delay is still running. An article was filed to extend the stay to 24 months for a limited window. A subcommittee recommended favorable action in September 2022. We could not confirm adoption or whether the temporary window has closed. The 12 and 18 month figures on this page come from the bylaw text.
Current Brookline roofing permit turnaround. The Town publishes the fee and the process. It does not publish how long a residential roofing permit takes to issue, and the queue changes with the season.
Whether the design guidelines are applied uniformly. The synthetic slate language is unambiguous on paper. Whether a hardship case has ever been waived is not something the public record answers, and it is a question for the Commission, not for a roofer.
Live HIC and CSL status for any company named on any page, including ours. A credential is a snapshot. Look it up the morning you sign, not the week you searched.
Straight answers
Brookline Roofing Questions, Answered
How much is a roofing permit in Brookline, MA?
Brookline charges $20 per $1,000 of construction value or fraction thereof, with a minimum permit fee of $50. Declare $20,000 of work and the permit is $400. Declare $30,000 and it is $600. Declare $45,000 and it is $900. The fee is assessed on the value written on the application, so the number on your permit should match the number on your contract. Starting work before the permit is issued is charged at $50 per $1,000 instead, which turns that $400 into $1,000 on the same filing.
Does replacing a roof count as demolition in Brookline?
Sometimes, and this is the question that catches Brookline homeowners out. Article 5.3 of the Town's General By-Laws defines demolition as pulling down, destroying, removing or razing a building or a significant portion of it, by removing one side of the building, or removing the roof, or removing 25 percent of the structure. A shingle tear-off that keeps the framing and sheathing is not normally handled as a demolition. Changing the roof shape is a different matter: adding a dormer, raising a ridge, altering a pitch or taking off a roof structure can put the project in front of the Preservation Commission, and Brookline's demolition review covers the whole town rather than only the historic districts. If the Commission finds the building Significant, the delay is one year, or eighteen months for a building listed on or eligible for the National or State Register. Call Preservation staff before you design the change, not after.
Is my Brookline house in a local historic district?
There are 9 local historic districts in Brookline: Cottage Farm, created 1979, Pill Hill 1983, Graffam-McKay 2004, Chestnut Hill North 2005, Harvard Avenue 2005, Lawrence 2011, Wild-Sargent 2012, Crowninshield 2015, and Olmsted-Richardson 2022. The Preservation Commission page on the town website still lists only 8 and omits Olmsted-Richardson, so a contractor working from that page is working from a stale list. Check your own parcel 3 ways: the Brookline GIS zoning map, which carries the district overlays, the Preservation staff, and MACRIS at mhc-macris.net for National and State Register status. Inside a district, exterior changes visible from a public way need Commission or staff approval before the building permit is issued.
Can I put synthetic slate on a house in a Brookline historic district?
No, if the roof is visible from a public way and the house sits in a local historic district. The Town's local historic district design guidelines say slate and terra cotta tile roofing should be repaired or replicated in kind, including color, decorative patterns and style, and then state it plainly: synthetic slate or tile should not be used. The same guidelines say rubber and TPO membrane roofing should not be used where it is visible from a public way, unless it is on a flat roof. Solar is treated case by case on slate and terracotta, and only where the system needs minimal alteration to the historic roof. Outside the 9 districts none of this applies to your material choice.
Can I get a dumpster on a Brookline street in winter?
No. Brookline runs a winter moratorium from November 15 to April 15 and will not issue occupancy permits for dumpsters or moving boxes during it. Outside that window the occupancy permit is $75 for each 30-day period, No Parking signs are $5 each and cover one space or about 20 feet, and a metered space rents at $24 per day per meter head, which is not prorated. The contractor or the owner of the equipment has to be bonded with the Town's DPW before the permit can be issued. On a dense Brookline street with no driveway, the dumpster plan is a real scheduling constraint, not an afterthought, and it is why a January roof job here often means a dump trailer working off a private drive instead.
What hours can roofers work in Brookline?
Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Saturday through Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., per the Town's Building and Permits FAQ. That window is why crew size matters more here than in a town with looser rules. A roof that a large crew finishes in one long day elsewhere can run into a second day in Brookline, and a contractor promising a 6 a.m. start is promising something the bylaw does not allow.
Do you need a fire permit for a torch-applied flat roof in Brookline?
Yes. Brookline Fire lists torch applied roofing as hot work, alongside welding, cutting, grinding and soldering. The permit is $75, every operator working under it needs the NFPA Hot Work Safety program or a Massachusetts Department of Fire Services equivalent, and the application has to carry a letter from the building owner giving permission. Most hot work also requires a fire detail, which the permit states. This matters on the flat porch roofs and low-slope rear extensions common on Brookline triple-deckers. Ask any flat-roof bidder which membrane they are using and whether it involves an open flame, because the answer changes both the permit and the schedule.
What license does a roofer need in Massachusetts?
There is no standalone roofer license in Massachusetts. Work on a pre-existing owner-occupied 1 to 4 family home generally needs two separate credentials from two separate agencies: a Home Improvement Contractor registration from the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, and a Construction Supervisor License. The relevant CSL for reroofing is the Specialty roof covering license, designation RF under 780 CMR R5, which covers construction, alteration, repair or removal of roof covering including repair and replacement of 25 percent of sheathing and 25 percent of sistering roof rafters. Structural work past those thresholds needs a broader CSL. Brookline issues permits to a CSL holder who also holds HIC registration, with an exception for an owner-occupant of a 1 or 2 unit dwelling they live in. Look both credentials up at contractorhub.mass.gov.
Is Brookline's ice barrier requirement 36 inches instead of 24?
No, and the pages saying so have it wrong. The rule in Brookline is the same rule as the rest of Massachusetts. Section R905.1.2 requires the ice barrier to run from the lowest edge of every roof surface to a point not less than 24 inches inside the exterior wall line, and on roofs pitched 8 in 12 or steeper it must also run not less than 36 inches measured along the roof slope from the eave edge. Both measurements are real and they are additive, not alternatives, which is where the confusion starts. A municipality cannot simply amend the building code either: 780 CMR 51.00 R102.2.2 makes the state code govern, and a stricter local standard has to go through the Board of Building Regulations and Standards under MGL chapter 143 section 98. No such Brookline amendment is on record.
Who pulls the roofing permit in Brookline?
Your contractor should, and Massachusetts attaches real money to it. To be eligible for the Home Improvement Contractor Guaranty Fund, the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation requires that the contractor, not the homeowner, secured the building permit. The fund pays actual loss up to $25,000 when a registered contractor leaves an unpaid judgment or arbitration award. You can legally pull it yourself as an owner-occupant of a 1 or 2 unit home you live in. Doing it to save the permit fee trades a few hundred dollars against access to $25,000.
Service areas
Which Other Towns Do We Cover From the Quincy Yard?
Powersol Roofing covers Brookline and the surrounding Greater Boston and South Shore towns. Our office is at 100 Hancock St in Quincy, about 8 miles southeast.
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Want a Free Brookline Roof Inspection?
Photos of what we find, and a written scope with the decking allowance per sheet, the ice barrier distance, the permit in our name, the debris plan and the deposit in dollars. No pressure.