Beam & Structural Repair Co

A homeowner watching cracks open and floors slope in May 2026 had already collected two completely different reports from basement companies before calling Chris's team. Another, whose 1890s house sat on original columns nobody trusted, was walked through what actually needed doing before anything got ordered. That is most of what this company does: tell you what is wrong under the floor, then fix it. Beam & Structural Repair works across Massachusetts and Rhode Island on structural, foundation and beam repair for houses, barns and industrial buildings. Chris Strouse and Ryan run it, with a crew customers name one by one — Tyler, Alex, Noah, TT, Courtney — and Cheryl on the phones. The Better Business Bureau accredits the company and grades it A+. The work is the heavy, invisible kind. A new structural beam, poured footings and sistered joists under a 100-year-old house in April 2024. The whole sinking front addition of a house jacked up in July 2025 and its rotted footings dug out. Sill plates eaten by termites, replaced in October 2025 and again in June 2026. Two rotted sill boards swapped in a crawl space too tight to stand in, once the house was lifted. A barn's main beam jacked back into place in September 2025 so the joints carried the floor again. For a 2024 doorway through a load-bearing wall, they took care of the engineer's drawing and the permit alongside the header and column. Scheduling comes up a lot, and well. A March 2025 customer whose cracked hardwood floors turned into an emergency was fitted in; a homeowner mid-remodel in July 2025 was moved up during the company's busiest stretch. One April 2025 caller describes Cheryl ringing back promptly and Ryan phoning the same day. The bad account here is a September 2023 one-star review from a caller who says a woman answered and told them to stop bothering her so she could work. For a sagging floor, a rotten sill, or a beam somebody has told you needs replacing, this is a specialist outfit — 4.9 across 75 Google ratings — and the assessment is the part to get in writing, particularly if you are already holding two conflicting opinions.