Meadow's Construction

Meadows Construction is a family-run general contractor based in Newburyport, founded in 1978 by Michael (Mike) Meadows, with his son Jared now serving as project manager. The company holds an active Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration and handles a wide range of residential and commercial work — roofing, siding, additions, decks, and full exterior renovations — across Essex County and southern New Hampshire. The volume of positive, detailed feedback here is substantial: reviewers describe major projects — full house re-siding jobs, an 18-unit condominium roof replacement completed on schedule, additions, and multiple deck rebuilds — completed with strong communication, fair pricing (one reviewer said Mike's quote came in 25% below a competitor's), and clean job sites. Both Mike and Jared are repeatedly named directly for responsiveness and follow-through, and several customers describe using the company more than once across different projects. The record also carries two government enforcement actions worth knowing about plainly. In July 2012, OSHA issued Meadows Construction a seven-item serious citation and a two-item repeat citation totaling a proposed $32,800 penalty for violations including inadequate fall protection; the case went to a formal OSHRC hearing. Separately, a 2015 U.S. Department of Labor wage-and-hour enforcement action assessed the company $55,097 for violations connected to Davis-Bacon Act prevailing-wage requirements on a public project. Both are resolved, years-old enforcement records rather than ongoing matters, but they are real findings against the business and worth asking about directly given how much of the company's work is on larger commercial and public jobs. More recently, two 2025 reviews describe aggressive driving by company work vans on the road — one reviewer said a van cut them into oncoming traffic, another described being cut off and shown an obscene gesture — incidents unrelated to the quality of any contracted work but relevant to how the company's vehicles are driven day to day. Separately, court records show Meadows was party to a Massachusetts Appeals Court case over an insurance coverage dispute with its insurer; the available record doesn't establish what underlying incident prompted the claim. For a homeowner in the Newburyport area planning a roof, siding, or addition project, Meadows Construction has a deep and largely positive track record on the work itself, run by an experienced, responsive family team — but the OSHA and wage enforcement history, along with the more recent driving complaints, are worth raising directly before signing on.