Metric Paving and Masonry

Metric Paving and Masonry is a Waltham outfit built around two things: driveways and stonework. The business describes itself as family-run, now three generations in, working across Greater Boston for more than 25 years — and the jobs reviewers describe run steadily from early 2024 through this past summer. The strongest thread across 41 Google reviews, every one of them five stars, is driveway paving. Homeowners describe the same sequence again and again: an old driveway torn out in a day or two, new asphalt laid within a week, and a fair, clearly explained estimate before any work started. In a 2025 review, one customer who had a full driveway repaving done alongside repointing a century-old stone foundation called the price fair and the crew hard-working and highly skilled. In another 2025 review, a homeowner whose retaining wall had been built improperly when the house was first constructed decades earlier said Thomas spotted the real problem on the first visit and rebuilt it correctly. Reviews from this year describe Paul personally quoting jobs, working on site, and supervising the crew — reviewers name Thomas, Paul, and Michael often enough that it reads like a small, hands-on team rather than a rotating cast. Beyond driveways, the work runs to masonry proper: retaining walls, bluestone patios, brick steps, and walkways. A 2025 review singles out a set of brick steps as clean and well-aligned after the old bricks were hauled away; a 2024 review describes a full back-stairs-and-patio rebuild that finished on schedule. The company's own site adds waterproofing to that list too — driveway, apron, steps, retaining wall, sidewalk, and waterproofing work — though the reviews mostly speak to the paving and masonry side of it. There's little to flag here. Every review is five-star with no complaint described, and the Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration checks out as active. What's worth confirming before booking is mostly logistics: the stated service area stretches from Waltham through Cambridge, Newton, Arlington, Needham, and a dozen more towns, so it's worth confirming they reach a specific address, and pinning down a start date given how many jobs describe multi-day driveway or patio work. For anyone weighing a driveway repaving, a retaining wall rebuild, or general masonry repair around Greater Boston, this is a crew with a long, consistently well-reviewed history doing exactly that kind of work.