C & K Landscaping & Construction Inc.

C & K Landscaping & Construction Inc. covers both halves of its name: design-and-install work — hardscaping, stone pavers and retaining walls, land levelling and grading, brick and stone driveways — and the weekly maintenance round of mowing, mulching, aerating, dethatching, fertilizing, flower beds and leaf removal. Its Houzz portfolio shows two Peabody jobs, home landscaping and a stone paver and retaining wall project, and Houzz puts a typical job anywhere from $5,000 to $500,000. The coverage is genuinely wide for a landscaper — roughly forty North Shore and Greater Boston towns, from Ipswich and Manchester down through Swampscott, Marblehead and Nahant to Boston, Quincy and Hull. The evidence thins out quickly when you look for what customers said. Porch shows an average of 3.97 across 26 online reviews, but it aggregates that figure from elsewhere and displays none of the text, and no other directory carries a single written review. There is no rating you can read the reasoning behind. The company's own account of itself is also inconsistent: Houzz says it was founded in 1992, while Porch states 16 years in business. It lists a Peabody address on one profile and a Swampscott one on another, both under the same website and phone. No licence or registration number appears on any profile. For a job involving grading, driveways or retaining walls, ask for the home improvement contractor registration and check it with the state, and ask for two or three recent clients you can call — the written record will not do that work for you.