J. Miller Construction

J. Miller Construction (its reviewers call it Miller Masonry) is a West Roxbury, Massachusetts masonry contractor whose customers keep describing the same kind of call: an old chimney that needs real repair, or a foundation that has started letting water in. Both scenes carry unusual amounts of detail for a five-review-average Google page — a crown, bad brick, flue liners set in refractory cement, and new flashing add up to a real chimney rebuild, not vague praise. The clearest through-line in the record is repeat, specific waterproofing work. In 2025 a Brookline homeowner hired the company to waterproof the foundation of an 1800s house and singled out owner Alex for walking through the whole process — cost, timeline and all — with a crew that showed up on time and cleaned up after itself. Another customer went further: they'd used the company once before, in 2011, for foundation, step and basement waterproofing repairs, and came back fourteen years later for more, finishing on the day the owner promised. Turnaround comes up more than once, too — one job went from first call to finished work in under nine days, another in about two. Every review on file is five stars, and Google shows the same 5.0 average across all eight ratings. There's nothing here to be wary of yet — no complaint, no dispute, no negative pattern — though with only a handful of reviews on record, it's worth asking for a couple of recent local references before booking anything sizable, the way you would with any small local outfit.