Ciciotti Construction

Ciciotti Construction is the stone-and-concrete outfit on Burrill Street in Swampscott: masonry, hardscaping and flatwork, plus the excavation, site work, demolition, drain and sewer work and trucking that go with it. Its Houzz profile files the company under stone, pavers and concrete and says it covers the Greater Boston area. Marco Ciciotti runs it, and the Better Business Bureau lists him as the manager over three employees. In a 2019 Google review, a customer wrote that the company had done residential, commercial and town work around the North Shore, especially Marblehead and Swampscott, and that Angelo Ciciotti started the business in 1982 before his son took it over. The BBB file puts the start at 2002 instead. One thing to settle before you sign: its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #127517, is expired on the state registry. Ask whether it has been renewed and get the current number in hand before a home improvement contract is written. For a patio, a walkway, a retaining wall, or the excavation and drainage that has to happen first, this is a small Swampscott crew with the trucks and the site equipment for it. Confirm the registration, ask for two or three recent North Shore addresses you can drive past, and get the scope — excavation, base prep, materials — written into the quote.