Currivan Green Company, INC Landscape Contractors

Currivan Green Company is an Andover, Massachusetts landscape and construction contractor, run by Joshua Currivan with three employees, and its Thumbtack profile puts it at twelve years in business with 109 project photos posted. The work it leads on is hardscape: concrete paver walkways and patios, natural stone and masonry, and retaining walls. Around that it does drainage and storm-water management, grading and new lawn installation by seed, hydroseed or sod, plantings, sprinkler-system installation, organic mosquito and tick control, weekly mowing and bed maintenance, and 24/7/365 commercial snow plowing and salting. On Thumbtack it also takes concrete, brick and stone repair, land leveling, excavation, artificial turf and handyman work. Both platform scores are high: five stars from seven Google ratings and 4.8 from five Thumbtack ratings, four-fifths of them five-star. Thumbtack records six hires through the platform and notes a completed background check on the owner, which is the platform's own identity check rather than a trade licence or state registration. The written side of that record is dated, though — the customer accounts on the public pages are several years old, so they describe how the business ran then rather than this season. Combined with single-digit rating counts on each platform, that is why the rating here is held low and marked low-confidence rather than reflecting the 5.0 and 4.8 averages at face value. They are a sensible shortlist candidate for paver and stone work, a drainage problem or a full lawn replacement in the Andover area, especially if you want one contractor for both the build and the seasonal upkeep. Because the public record is thin and dated, ask for two or three jobs finished this year that you can go look at, ask for their current insurance certificate, and — since much of what they list is masonry, concrete and excavation — confirm in writing who pulls any permits the work needs.