Doyle & Sons Contracting, LLC

Masonry is on the sign, but the range runs wider than that. Doyle & Sons works out of Quincy doing stonework and landscape design, and also builds and remodels swimming pools — fiberglass and custom kayak pools — plus excavation, custom decks and home additions. The company describes itself as family owned and locally owned, and says it is the Massachusetts exclusive dealer for Okeanos fiberglass pools. Both of those are its own statements about itself. Outside voices are scarce so far: a neighbor in Hingham brought their name up on Nextdoor this past March. That is an organic mention rather than a review the company collected — worth something, but it is one voice. So this is a call-and-check job rather than a hire-on-reputation one. If you are pricing a patio or a pool, ask for two or three recent nearby jobs you can go look at, and get the contract, the insurance certificate, and the registration status for your specific kind of work in writing before anyone breaks ground.