I wish I could recommend Edgar and Sons! He was a nice man!…read more However, after many follow up calls to the owner due to an incomplete job, I was told by his assistant that he was "too busy" to call me back. Ultimately, the job we agreed to with contract was not done to completion, in spite of the assistant's insistence that it was. The owner was not on the job EITHER day and this is important. While the crew came back to attempt to complete the original job ( we appreciated that!), the owner was not there. The result was that the job is currently STILL not what we agreed upon. The owner is not willing to return to finish it. Caveat emptor...just know that if the job is not done according to agreement, you will have trouble reaching the owner and it will not be made right. We really wanted to have a great experience!

Edgar and sons took 3 trees from our yard Monday this week and I must say I am totally impressed!…read moreAll three guys showed up at 7am and worked hard til 4pm taking 3 huge 80-100 foot trees. Due to the lack of daylight, they had to come back Tuesday to finish, grinding the stumps and cleaning up. They worked very well together and efficiently. The price was great for all they did! I would highly recommend them and will use them again in the future!

Metro Paving did a wonderful job on our driveway! Two years later and it still looks great. I am…read moretrying to figure out how often to redo the seal coat but whenever that will be I will be calling Metro Paving again. Reasonable price too!

I was told never to "trust" the lowest bid. I'm so glad I didn't follow those instructions. Metro…read moreisn't trying to get 300% mark up like other companies. They are competitive in pricing and take the time to do the work right. I was told they'd be there on that day at 7am and it wasn't even 7:01 when I saw them in driveway ready to go!! They were professional, they interacted with my 2 year old daughter who was just in awe of the process. I can't say enough about this company. I'm a smaller, residential property, but they are for the every day family. They worked endlessly to get it just right in a very tight area on the side of the garage- you could tell they were making it perfect as if it was their own home. Very appreciative in the job they did, their honesty, efficiency and no "BS" like other companies I've talked to.

Called, said to text my address and said would stop by later in the day, NEVER did and NEVER calledread more

I interviewed a few masonry companies for repairing spalling brick in my basement. Some wanted to…read moreparge the walls, which was not what I wanted. Some quoted me fairly high prices for the repair, but Martin Forde offered me the best, and most reasonable cost for the job. During our interview Martin struck me as a competent, and fair mason and he is responsive by email, which are valuable traits in a contractor. We scheduled the job, and he and his team showed up right on time. The first thing I learned is that Forde masonry may not have a full time staff. Martin definitely came out to my job periodically to deliver materials, but the masons who did the work were actually two latinos who seemed to be day laborers. They were competent, and very polite as I asked questions in my broken Spanish, but that makes accountability a little more difficult. That became a problem when I was in the basement with another contractor, and I saw one of the mason repairing a hole that was two withes thick. He was just repairing the outward face that I could see, but leaving a whole in the second layer. I asked him about it, so he dropped some mortar into the hole, a few bricks, and kept on with his repair. Yes, it visually looks fine and I would not have noticed if I were not watching as the hole was getting closed up, but that is not what I expect when I hire a professional mason to repair my walls. My job is done though, and I hopefully will not need masonry help for a while. Most of the issues I had are easily fixed with a little more attention to detail, and oversight, so I would encourage others to give Martin a chance if you need masonry help.

Eber Chilel and his assistant did an extraordinary job…read more.. and all in just one day. I had a very specific and detailed design for the bluestone landing at the bottom of my front staircase. Eber was very interested in making sure all the details were understood between the two of us and he checked in with me a couple times to make certain I was happy along the way. His estimate was very fair and reasonable. Better than most. I'd hire him again in a heartbeat.

The owner, Eber what's the first to call me on Yelp. His communication was very prompt throughout…read morethe process. He gave me a reasonable price the next day and came a week later to complete the job in one day. The result was beautiful and everything was cleaned up. Call him if you're looking for someone who is easy to work with and get the job done right, big or small.

TJ and his crew tore out a very tired front steps (wood) and a brick retaining wall. Replaced with…read moregranite block steps and cobblestone wall. Absolute pro's. The job is solid and attractive. And he did it right before Easter. Nice and early in the season. I'd highly recommend. Thanks.

Today TJ finished his second project for us and did another terrific job. He did our front brick…read moresteps in the spring time and tiled our kitchen and foyer in the winter. He is consistently the best price in town but more importantly he is corteous, friendly, reliable and meticulous. He seems to make a point of over-delivering. He is the best VALUE in town. I would recommend TJ for any masonry or tile job. He had a team of people to support him with our tile job and they worked like a machine. First TJ adds value with input on stone, grout and trim. He arrives as scheduled to a) rip up our multiple layers of old flooring, b) add the appropriate height backerboard to get our tile to the proper height, c) lay tile so we could walk around our kitchen and hallway as he worked, d) grout and e) clean-up. This was no easy assignment - more than 300 sf of tiling with some crazy cuts to our flooring that stretched from our front entry foyer to our hallway and into our kitchen.

We have an antique home in Wakefield, and when the front porch needed fixing, we realized the front…read moresteps and walk also needed replacing. Greg was recommended to us by Willy at Willow Tree, and we were pleased and totally unsurprised to report it was an excellent recommendation. Greg was very helpful and totally understanding of our desire to use authentic materials in making repairs and changes to the home. We used granite slab and cobbles, and Boston City Hall brick pavers. Greg and his crew are prompt, meticulous and courteous, and the job was done on time and on budget. Our huge neurotic dog loves him, and that's more of an endorsement than I can adequately express in an on-line review. We couldn't be more pleased and have a list of future projects for him once we save up some more money. Just waiting for the carpenter to finish the back deck and start on the front porch to complete the work, but we recommend him without reservation. It's such a pleasure to find a skilled craftsman you know you'll work with for years to come. And with a 200 year old house, there's always work! I'll update the photos once everything is complete! Thanks Greg, for transforming or walkway and making our stairs gorgeous, level, and safe! P.S. Huge neurotic dog photo also included for your viewing pleasure.

Greg took care of my crumbling brick steps and horrible walkway on our newly purchased home in…read moreWakefield. He did an amazing job from start to finish. First, his estimate was right in the middle of my many other estimates and he had the best vision as far as what to use, and how to make it pop. He wanted to make the path and steps a foot wider then everyone else for the same price. He was prompt in showing me pics of what he thought I wanted and brought a book and samples over right away. His insight made us so happy at the end and I would have been upset if I had gone narrower like other's suggested. He really cared about making it look the best. After the job started within a few weeks, it took one day to tear out the old steps and he uncovered a huge problem with carpenter ant damage. Greg was great in communicating the damage to me and flexible in allowing me a few days to have my carpenter take care of the problem, instead of just covering it up like he could have. He came back when the problem was fixed and it took a day to dig the path and pour a proper concrete foundation, which was missing and the reason the old steps crumbled in the first place. From there it took another day to build the steps, a day for the path and a day to clean the site up and add finishing touches. His crew arrived right on time and stayed late to finish the job daily. They were very clean and even helped me save some of the old stone and offered to move it to the place I wanted it on the property, which could not have been easy. My wife and I gutted our entire property and used several contractors and he was probably the best one we came across. We will be calling him again when our retaining wall goes in. Thanks Greg!

Working with Masonworks has been a roller coaster. They are very, very good at the masonry aspect,…read morebut we had a negative experience with everything outside of the excellent stone walls and patio they built for us. They have built beautiful flat stone walls for us in our front and back yards. We were very impressed with them after the first job they did for us in our front yard a few years ago, so we did not even look at other companies when we wanted to spruce up our backyard this year. The garden walls they built in the backyard were once again beautiful. However, as a gardener, I was disappointed and frustrated by the following things: - Our contract included 50/50 loam compost for the new garden beds. During the job, we caught them filling the beds with the grass they had pulled up from our old lawn and asked them to stop doing that. - When I went to start planting, I found that the garden beds had only a layer of new soil but that my shovel quickly hit a lot of big rocks and uncovered old soil, debris, and trash. - They completely trampled and destroyed my established perennial garden, which was located in a garden bed above where the new beds were built. They also broke several pavers in a little garden path I had and removed them without replacing them. - They recommended microclover for my lawn and seeded it for us as part of the contract, but it grew in quite spotty despite us maintaining it properly with daily waterings. I contacted them about the first issue and their initial response was to tell me that the stones I was finding were part of the wall construction - this was not the case. They had someone come out to take a look and concluded that the soil did need to be replaced, which they finally did. It is much better now, though I still have found some large stones in it. However, in the process of solving that issue, they caused the second one - many of the perennials that my mother and I had worked to plant over the past four years were totally destroyed. They offered me a credit to compensate for the loss, or the option to have them reinstall new flowers, but by that point I just didn't want them near my garden anymore so accepted the credit. I didn't bother contacting them about the spotty lawn - I threw down some grass seeds yesterday to try and fill in the gaps. While I appreciated that they did eventually take steps to resolve the issues, I found it quite frustrating to have to keep reaching out just to get them to do what they really should have done in the first place. They never did a final walkthrough as I've seen other contractors do. No apology for destroying my garden. They have a Benjamin Franklin quote, "The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten" - I definitely felt some of that bitterness throughout this process. My conclusion is that they are really excellent masons but do not understand or respect gardens. If you hire them, be prepared to have to deal with that.

We searched a long time for the right contractor for our front railings. Jeff and Riccardo were…read morefantastic. They provided detailed estimates and were able to answer all our questions. They also adjusted on the fly and we able to make a custom solution for us with beautiful wood railings with aluminum balusters. We've gotten multiple compliments from friends how sharp it looks. We have two small kids and were very concerned to be going into winter without railings (we are 33 steps from the street). Jeff was able to squeeze us in before the end of season. Riccardo and his team were out in the freezing temps finishing the railings. Everything came out great; communications were smooth throughout; and cleanup was perfect. I'd highly recommend this company - we plan to use them for home improvement projects in the future.

First time using Yelp to find someone to re-pave my front yard after the porch construction…read more Lorenzo responded quickly with an rough estimate, and came out and checked out the site and provided the practical proposal with reasonable price. Had to chase him to get the schedule but once he privided the date, his team came out on the scheduled day and completed the pavement as proposed. Very happy with the quality of the pavement, and they cleaned up the site and removed leftover too.

Lorenzo and his team arrived at 8am, they got to work pronto. They were here to prune a number of…read moretrees that were 100ft high, they worked hard all day. Lorenzo has all the big equipment to do a job like this. I was impressed with his big new bucket truck and his tree grinder. They put so many branches that were like trees themselves into that thing, it was kind of amazing to watch it. They were very neat in their work, did not tear up my yard. Put down some plywood, cleaned up after themselves, and also pruned and shaped some smaller trees in my front yard. They were very careful where the branches would come to rest after they were cut and very skilled in the exact place they lowered the branches onto the ground. They used chainsaws and pruners and roped all the larger pieces so they could control exactly where any limb landed. Overall, I couldn't be happier with their job and wouldn't hesitate to use them for anything else and they do quite a few different things.

Please do not hire this company. They start at a reasonable price then find all kinds of things…read morewrong and the price keep going up and up. They pressure you to sign a contract for the work and the work is subpar. It does not meet code or professional workmanship. They sat in my house for couple of hours until i signed despite the fact that i told them i had to check with my attorney and would let them know in the morning. They refused to leave. I should have called the police right then and there. I did contact the police later that week when i saw the results of the job. I also checked with city hall to see if they had pulled a permit as I was told by them that they had the inspector coming next week. This was after they finished the job and wanted payment. Lo and behold city hall said no permit was pulled and no inspection was ordered. Their names are Freddie and Matthew. The work was done by 2 gentlemen who do not speak English. I will be taking legal action on this matter to recoup what i paid since I have to have all the work completely redone and it has comprised the integrity of our 4 season room. I also just recently lost my husband and they preyed on that. Unfortunately, i was scammed. I repeat, do not use them.

From the owner: Revive Masonry & Construction is a top-rated local masonry company providing the highest quality…read moreservices to our clients. For over 20 years, we have been helping our clients achieve solutions for their masonry and hardscape that best resemble their ideas and always fit their budgets. Revive Masonry & Construction is a Boston, based company serving whole of Boston.

Patrick came out to fix my foundation in the basement. His quote was more the fair and the work he…read moredid was excellent. He was prompt, responsive and thorough. The foundation looks good as new! I will be calling again when I need a mason!

My chimney cap blew off in a wind storm. I called Patrick Masonry on a Wednesday and they came out…read moreto take a look on a Sunday morning. I was grateful they were able to come on the weekend and a Sunday no less. Despite their busy schedules John was able to fix my chimney cap and repoint my chimney within a week. The price was great and the quick and excellent work can't be beat.