The crew that walks every roof.
Family-run since 2005. Same owner, same senior crew, same standard for twenty years — and the founder is on-site for every estimate and every job.
Arturo Almeida started with one truck.
Arturo founded Art Slate Roofing in 2005. He’d spent the previous decade learning slate, copper, and historic work from senior Boston craftsmen — the kind who put new copper on Beacon Hill brownstones in the 1980s and taught the trade by hand.
Twenty years later, he’s still on every job himself. The rule is non-negotiable: no quote goes out without the owner having stood on the roof, and no subcontractor steps onto a Boston slate roof in his name. The crew is small, senior, and trained in-house.
He’ll answer the phone if you call. He’ll be the person who shows up to the assessment. And he’ll be up there himself if it’s a job that needs hands-on work.
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Five rules we don’t break.
Twenty years of slate work has compressed into these. Most contractors don’t write them down. We’ve found that writing them down helps homeowners understand exactly who they’re hiring.
The owner walks every roof.
No quote leaves the office without Arturo having stood on the roof. No exceptions, no junior estimator, no drone-and-guess.
No subcontractors on the roof.
Every craftsman who touches your slate is on our payroll. We don’t subcontract slate or copper work. Ever.
Copper flashing, or it doesn’t get fastened.
Steel flashing on a slate roof is a future leak. We don’t install it. If a job requires it, we’ll tell you to hire someone else.
We don’t push asphalt on a slate house.
If your home was built for slate, we’ll tell you so. We don’t replace slate with asphalt unless the structure can no longer carry the weight.
Honest scope, honest price.
If the smaller repair is the right answer, we quote the smaller repair. If the bigger work is right, we quote that. We don’t move the math to fit the sale.
Hire the person who answers the phone.
Free, no obligation. Twenty years of Boston slate work — same owner, same crew, same standard. We’ll tell you honestly whether the work is needed now, in five years, or never.
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