Joe Z Construction, Inc.

Six roofs in three years, all within a short drive of home. That is the shape of Joe Z Construction — a one-person Taunton outfit whose permit history is almost entirely roof replacements in Taunton, North Easton and Randolph, at a typical job value near $11,926. BBB records the company as incorporated in April 2018 with a single employee and owner Jose Zhao Tenelema. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active: #192119, confirmed against the state register in the company's own name. Two further numbers appear on its BBB page — HE-207529 and CS-117149, both filed with the Office of Public Safety and Inspections — and those are BBB's records rather than anything confirmed, so ask to see the certificates if the job needs them. What the company sells beyond roofs is the rest of the shell: siding, gutters and fascia, skylights, chimneys and rubber roofing. Both Angi and HomeAdvisor note Spanish is spoken. The written record is short and it is old. Three reviews exist, all from 2023, and all positive. In an April 2023 review a homeowner who needed a roof said the crew pulled the permit and handled the steps she wouldn't have known to take; in an August 2023 review another described a gutter downspout re-route finished the same morning. A March 2023 Angi reviewer left only that the crew was punctual and courteous. Nothing has been written since — the 5.0 averages on BuildZoom, Angi and HomeAdvisor all rest on those same handful of comments. The paper credentials are tidy alongside them: an A+ BBB grade, accredited since December 2022, and membership in the Taunton Chamber of Commerce. The two directories also disagree on tenure — HomeAdvisor and Angi print nine years of experience while BBB puts it at eight from a 2018 start. The right call here is a straightforward asphalt or rubber roof, or gutter and fascia work, on a house in the Taunton–Randolph area — the jobs this company has actually pulled permits for and been reviewed on. Because it is a single-employee business with a thin, three-year-old review history, get the scope and the permit responsibility in writing, confirm insurance, and ask who will actually be on the roof.