Foundation Restoration

Foundation Restoration is Kevin's Boston-area masonry outfit, and the thing that keeps showing up in review after review is the same: a customer who's tried other contractors, sometimes for over a decade, finally gets their water problem solved. The trade is stone and fieldstone foundation repointing and waterproofing, chimney rebuilds and repointing, and brick repair — old New England housing stock is the specialty, with reviewers describing 80-, 97- and even 125-year-old homes. The Google record runs to 54 reviews from 2023 through today, all but one of them five stars, and the pattern holds across years: Kevin shows up quickly, walks a homeowner through multiple repair options with real pricing, and gets the mortar, stone or brick redone cleanly, inside and out. Several reviewers had already been through failed attempts elsewhere — a 2024 review described three separate contractors over 12 years unable to stop a leaking chimney, fixed by Kevin's crew even in frigid weather with zero leaks through three subsequent storms; a 2023 review described a decade of costly, unresolved water issues finally diagnosed with an on-site water test the day after the first call. The honesty comes up unprompted, too — in a 2026 review, Kevin diagnosed a basement water problem and told the homeowner they needed a different trade rather than take the job, and in a 2024 review he told a customer their garage-floor cracks were cosmetic and not worth paying to fix yet. The one dissent on file is a single 4★ review with no complaint attached — otherwise every quoted review is glowing, and the last six months brought three more with nothing negative. For an old stone or fieldstone foundation, a leaning or leaking chimney, or a basement that's stayed wet through other people's fixes, this is a deep, consistent record of a specialist who explains the options and does the harder, more stubborn jobs other contractors couldn't.