L&A Masonry Contractor Inc.

L&A Masonry Contractor is a Lowell company built around stonework — walkways, patios, driveways, retaining walls, chimneys and hardscaping — run out of 91 Crosby Street and covering Boston and the Merrimack Valley. The reach goes wider than brick and block. Its site also offers kitchens, bathrooms, basements, additions, new builds, roofing, siding, gutters, fencing and excavation, and names fifteen towns it works in, from Methuen and Andover down through Woburn and Medford to Newton. The company calls itself family-run and minority-owned, puts its founding at 2004, and says it is licensed, insured and bonded. One thing to square before you hire: its BBB profile, which names Luyz Lacerda as owner and lists three employees, gives its start date as 1/1/2013 rather than 2004. For a patio, a retaining wall or chimney work, this is a masonry specialist that will also take on the general construction around it. Ask for the licence and insurance certificates before anyone starts, get the crew's actual years on masonry, and ask for addresses of finished stonework nearby you can go look at.