Lasky Homesmith Services

Lasky Homesmith Services is the call for the stuff most contractors turn down — a 1915 Craftsman window stuck halfway open, an antique table with a broken pedestal, a Victorian door frame with not one level surface in it. Jeff Lasky started the business in 2001 after leaving a career in tech to return to the carpentry trade he learned from his father; his son Alex joined full-time in 2017, and the two now work as a father-son team across Brookline, Cambridge, Brighton, and a wide swath of Greater Boston. Seventeen Google reviews from 2024 through this year average close to a perfect score, and the same specialty keeps surfacing: old-house windows and doors. In a June 2025 review, Jeff reconfigured a set of difficult old sash windows that needed real problem-solving to get working again; that same month, another reviewer described him troubleshooting and fixing a window in a 1915 Craftsman that had been stuck for who knows how long, and coming away having learned something about historic window maintenance in the process. A December 2024 review describes Alex tracking down the original maker of a set of condo windows rather than replacing them outright — cheaper for the homeowner, and harder to pull off. More recently, an April 2026 review describes Jeff and Alex installing French doors in an old Victorian with no plumb walls anywhere, work the homeowner called meticulous and creative; a June 2026 review has Jeff disassembling and rebuilding a broken antique pedestal table and building a custom railing. Beyond windows and doors, the range is wide: rotted porch railings replaced, floors patched, doorknobs and hinges swapped out, a bifold closet door retracked, a wooden bulkhead rebuilt. Several reviewers say they've called the pair back five, six, even a dozen times over the years for jobs of every size, and more than one credits them with transparent communication — explaining what they're doing and what trade-offs come with each option before starting. One thing worth checking: the company's Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is listed as expired in the state registry, worth confirming before signing on for larger work. For window and door repair in an older home, or general handyman-scale carpentry anywhere in Greater Boston, this is about as deep and specific a track record as a small operation gets — just get the licensing question settled first.