Hilario's Construction & Masonry

Hilario's Construction & Masonry works out of 2 Nathan's Way in Peabody and is the kind of small masonry crew that homeowners on the North Shore keep handing to their neighbours. Customers name the principal Tomas (also written Thomas or Hilario) in review after review, and several describe him working alongside a two- or three-man crew rather than sending one. Retaining walls, brick and stone steps, walkways, patios and paver driveways are the bread and butter. A July 2026 customer describes a poured concrete patio in a drainage-problem yard where the pitch had to be calculated exactly, and reports that the pooling stopped in later downpours; an August 2025 reviewer describes the old wall demolished, debris hauled off, stones colour-matched to an existing side wall and drains installed behind the new wall; a May 2026 customer started with retaining walls and ended up with side walls, stairs and the whole driveway paved. Jobs are frequently finished in a day or two, and cleanup gets mentioned almost as often as the stonework itself. Speed of response is a recurring theme: a June 2024 customer says the crew called within five minutes and were on site two days later; another says Tomas drove over the same day to look at the work; a 2024 reviewer summed the job up as 'Quote to completion in 48 hours!'. Pricing comes up as fair or competitive in several accounts, including a 2023 reviewer who compared other quotes before choosing him. What the evidence does not give you is a critical voice. Every review body on file is five stars, across four platforms and four years - and HomeAdvisor's own star distribution shows that a 4-star, a 3-star and a 1-star review exist among its 79 ratings, none of whose text was retrievable. The sources also disagree on how long the company has been trading, and Google publishes a 5-star average against a rating count of zero. For stone and masonry work - a wall, steps, a patio, a paver driveway - this is a well-documented, consistently praised local crew. Ask directly for the licence and insurance details (no registry-verified licence appears in this evidence), get the written scope and price, and ask about the warranty, since one platform says warranties are offered and another says they are not.