Malcolm Contracting Services LLC

Malcolm Contracting Services is a Boston general contractor built around one thing customers keep bringing up: decks. Jermaine Malcolm started the business in 2015, by his own account beginning as a one-man operation out of a truck after moving to Boston and going through trade school; he still owns and runs it today. The praise that follows the company across Google and a handful of local review sites all circles back to the same kind of job — repairing or repainting a deck, or building one from scratch. The tone is consistently positive: reviewers describe fast turnarounds, careful attention to detail, and enough satisfaction that some say they'd hire the crew again for the next project. That said, the sample behind it is still small — a five-star Google average built on just 12 ratings, with five written reviews behind it — so the pattern reads as encouraging rather than exhaustive. Its Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor license is active, and the Better Business Bureau gives the company an A+, though it hasn't pursued BBB accreditation. Worth flagging: the company's own site advertises a wider range of work — kitchen and bath remodeling, additions, commercial buildouts — but the independent praise turned up so far is specifically about deck work, not those larger remodel categories. There's also a small mismatch on company age: the website says 11 years, tracing to a 2015 founding, while its BBB listing puts it at 12 years in business. For deck repair, painting, or a new build in the Boston area, the active license and the consistent praise make this a reasonable call. If you're considering it for a full kitchen or bathroom remodel instead, it's worth asking to see photos or references from that specific kind of job first, since the track record here is still thin outside of deck work.