LBJ Masonry

A $130,000 tuckpointing-and-foundation job on a 1903 house with a fieldstone foundation is the kind of work LBJ Masonry gets called for. The Braintree company works at the base of a house — foundations, basements, chimneys, brick and stone — and says it has been at it for 29 years. Its Angi and HomeAdvisor listing carries 38 ratings averaging 5.0, every one of them five stars, with 25 written reviews going back to 2024. The recent ones read more like site notes than thank-you cards: in June a homeowner described three courses of deteriorating block replaced and reinforced with rebar, the cores filled with mortar, all while the weight of a concrete roof was held up. Another, in April, had grout cleaned between fieldstone on the inside, then brought the crew back for poured exterior walls after seeing that first round. Liam, who runs the crews, is named in nearly every recent comment. Two June reviews cover brick and stone siding — one a full replacement, one a repair — and a July stucco repair billed at $11,000 started and finished on schedule with the area cleaned up afterward. What the recent work keeps describing is structural stone-and-mortar repair, not decorative masonry. Two things are worth settling before calling. The jobs are large: the recent ones alone run $11,000 to $130,000, so scope and payment schedule matter more here than on a typical repair call. And the Massachusetts trade licence number on the listing — 210170, shown as expiring 10/30/2027 — is what the company reported to Angi, not a state confirmation; look it up yourself before signing anything. One more thing: Angi and HomeAdvisor carry the same listing, so those 38 ratings are one platform family's history rather than two independent ones. If the problem is a failing foundation, a wet basement, or a chimney coming apart, this is the shop the reviews actually describe. Ask to see a poured-wall job they finished nearby, and check the licence at the state before money moves.