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Langton & Douglas is a Somerville, Massachusetts general contractor. Local news coverage from 2014 named Steven Langton as a co-owner, with sons Steve and Chris — both former Olympic bobsledders — having worked for the family business before their athletic careers. The one detailed account on record is a serious complaint. In a January 2018 review on BuildZoom, a customer described work left unfinished after numerous extensions, a contractor largely absent from the job, and subcontractors they said were poorly supervised. The reviewer wrote that a crawlspace was never properly insulated or protected from moisture as promised — instead, construction debris and beer cans had been left in the space before it was covered with a new floor — and that gaps around roof vents were left unsealed. A certified home inspector reportedly found the safety issues after the fact, and the homeowner said they hired a different contractor to finish the project and repair the damage. Before calling, know that BuildZoom reports two Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registrations for the company, #116181 and #115731, both currently listed as inactive — the older one carried a 2008 expiration date. There's no more recent written account to weigh against the 2018 review, so it's worth confirming current licensing directly and asking for recent references. For general contracting or remodeling work in the Somerville area, this is a family-run business with deep local roots but a written record that raises real questions — get recent references and confirm licensing before signing a contract.
Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from Langton & Douglas. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
Estimated range
$23,000 – $35,000
Typical remodeling project around $29,000
“both Steve and Chris Langton are former employees of Langton & Douglas, a contracting company in Somerville.”
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“So what’s the Russell and Somerville connection? Langton’s parents, Anne and Steven were both born and raised in Somerville and Steven the father is a partner at Langton& Douglas Contracting here in Somerville which is a partner in the Russell venture. The company thought it would be nice to give the Massachusetts delegation some exposure before going off to Sochi. Unfortunately Chuck Berkely and Steve’s younger brother Chris also of Melrose and St John’s Prep and a former Lacrosse Player at Cornell, who slid on USA 3 on the World Cup Circuit, did not qualify for the Olympics. However Chris wi”
“The consulting architect for the restoration was Roger Panek. The town’s Director of Facilities, Gerry McCarty, was also instrumental in the successful completion of the exterior work, which was done by Langton & Douglas Contracting, Inc. The color combination of off-white with dark green window sash, shutters, and doors was chosen because the”
Unfortunately, we had a horrible experience, work was not finished despite numerous extensions, and we know think the contractor was absent for major parts, has not adequately supervised subcons and did not keep promises regarding timing made to us. Work that has been done was faulty and careless. After many months of delays and insufficient work, we had to hire other people to finish the project and repair damage Langton & Douglas had caused. Items from the original contract were not done, some of them we only found out after hiring a certified home inspector and they had caused safety problems: a crawlspace had not been insulated or protected from moisture as claimed, but instead construction debris and beer cans had been dumped in the area before it was covered with a new floor. Gaps and holes through the roofs and outside walls caused by the construction (e.g. for roof vents) had not been adequately resealed, leaving the construction at high risk of damage from the elements. Many items from the contract we had to insist on vehemently before they were addressed (e.g. an exhaust fan for a windowless BR which they had „forgotten“ about. Steve Langton‘s comment was that an exhaust fan in a BR was not necessary. When I said we needed it and that it had been specified in the contract, he only agreed after long and tough negotiations, only to place a fan we had never agreed on. In similar situations, he had agreed on doing or fixing things but they have never happened. An experience we will never have to go through again. We then worked with other builders on the project and - to us it was a difference like day and night: they were fast, reliable, friendly, reasonably priced and made a lot of the things Langton & Douglas declined on doing or said were not possible, happen in a timely manner. They even cleaned up after themselves.
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Detailed craftsmanship5.0
Renovates century-old structures5.0
