M&R Masonry

M&R Masonry is a Saugus, Massachusetts outfit homeowners call mainly for chimney work and hardscaping — patios, walkways, steps, repointing. The company says it has served Saugus and towns within roughly 50 miles since 2001, run day-to-day by Rudiberto Lopez, whom reviewers know as Rudy. Its Massachusetts home-improvement-contractor license (#217641) is active with the state. Across 37 Google ratings the average sits at 4.8, and Thumbtack shows a perfect 5.0 from seven jobs, with Thumbtack Top Pro status in both 2021 and 2022. The last six months brought four new Google reviews and no negative ones: one homeowner had Rudy's crew rebuild a set of steps, add new rails, and lay a granite walkway with an eye toward safer footing for a family member with mobility needs; another reached out about a chimney base needing repair and had the team out and finished within days. That same pattern — chimney repairs and rebuilds alongside patio and walkway installs — recurs across the company's multi-year run of reviews, and an independent directory separately corroborates a stone patio and composite deck job that left a homeowner pleased with the result. A couple of things are worth asking about before booking. The BBB file carries an A+ letter grade, but the business has not actually sought BBB accreditation — worth knowing since the two get conflated. The business name also isn't fully consistent across sources: it's "M&R Masonry Inc." on its own site and Thumbtack, "M&R Masonry Corporation" on BBB (which dates the entity to 2020), and appears as an LLC on at least one third-party review site — worth a quick question about which entity signs the contract, especially since BBB lists just one employee while another directory lists six. For chimney repair, repointing, or a patio and walkway rebuild in the Saugus area, the multi-year, multi-platform record here is consistent and the license checks out — worth a call, with the entity-name question settled before signing anything.