D'Alelio Construction Company, Inc

D'Alelio Construction is a concrete-and-stone outfit out of Swampscott, and the jobs its customers wrote up are the ones you would guess from that: patios, walkways, front steps, a retaining wall with stairs, an interior French drain, a foundation quote. Anthony D'Alelio handled the estimates himself, and reviewers wrote about him by name. The praise lands on three things. Showing up when promised — a 2010 customer who needed a patio finished before a wedding got it with time to spare, and said the crew arrived exactly when it said it would. Leaving the site clean, a line that keeps repeating; one 2010 reviewer said the crew left the place tidier than they found it. And price: a 2011 homeowner who collected quotes from several companies said D'Alelio's came in best, and that the work started within a week. Two complaints are worth reading before you call. In 2010 a customer said cement cracked in several places within months, that the company put it down to road salt rather than the work, and that patching made it worse — they ended up paying someone else to redo the job. In 2009 another said he took two days off work for appointments the owner never kept. The bigger thing to know is the calendar. Angi and HomeAdvisor both show 4.5 across 68 ratings, but those are the same syndicated set rather than two independent verdicts, and the newest written account on either is from August 2011. A lot can change in fifteen years — crews, ownership, what work a shop takes on. So: a solid run of concrete and hardscape jobs between 2008 and 2011, and nothing written since. Treat all of it as history rather than a description of the company today, and pin down current licensing, insurance and recent references before you sign anything.