Atlantic Masonry & Tile, LLC

Atlantic Masonry & Tile is a small Melrose masonry outfit — six employees on the Better Business Bureau's file — owned and operated by Zine Bel Qaid, who started the LLC in July 2012. The work is stone and hardscape rather than remodeling: brick, block, stone, pavers, cement walkways, driveways, patios, retaining walls, pillars, repointing, chimneys, stucco and waterproofing appear across its Better Business Bureau and Houzz listings. Nine projects posted to Houzz give a sense of the radius it works, around Melrose and inner Greater Boston. Its strongest third-party signal is the Better Business Bureau, which grades the company A+ and has listed it as accredited since December 2019. What is thin is homeowner feedback — neither the Better Business Bureau profile nor the Houzz page carries a customer review. Ask for the addresses of the recent jobs it has posted and for references you can actually call, and get the scope for pavers or a retaining wall in writing before work starts. A reasonable shortlist candidate for paver, patio and retaining-wall work around Melrose, with the caveat that you will be judging the craftsmanship yourself rather than from other homeowners' accounts.