AB Mendez Masonry & Landscaping

AB Mendez Masonry & Landscaping works out of Chestnut Street in Lynn, and the split in its name is the job list: stonework, patios, retaining walls and chimney repair on one side; lawns and garden beds, tree work, fencing, drainage and snow removal on the other. Anibel Mendez founded it as a small residential masonry crew in Lynn and, the company says, later brought the landscaping, tree and fencing work in-house. It describes itself as family-owned and locally run. Its service map covers much of the North Shore — Lynn, Salem, Beverly, Peabody, Danvers, Swampscott, Marblehead, Gloucester, Newburyport and Ipswich — and carries on into Exeter, Portsmouth and Hampton, New Hampshire. The Angi listing narrows to what it sells most: landscape and garden installation, retaining walls, interlocking paver patios, walks and steps, and painting, with free estimates, card payment and Spanish spoken. A sensible call if you want one crew for a paver patio or a retaining wall and the planting that goes around it. The company says it carries a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, so ask for that number and look it up on the state register before work starts, and ask to see a recent wall or patio job nearby.