N.F. DiPace Masonry

Nick DiPace runs N.F. DiPace Masonry out of Pembroke, and the reviews that pile up year after year point to one thing: people call him for the job that's too small for anyone else to bother with. The company describes itself as doing "all aspects of masonry work, no job too small," and the written record backs that up — a patched foundation, a single cracked step, a chimney, a stone wall — jobs a bigger outfit might pass on. What keeps showing up across 13 reviews spanning 2021 to 2025, split between Google and Thumbtack, is speed and follow-through. Several homeowners describe him answering within hours and coming to look at the job within a day or two — notably faster, more than one reviewer noted, than the other masons they'd tried first. In a 2021 review, a homeowner described a foundation crack fixed the same day it was inspected; in a 2022 review, another mentioned a quote that arrived within days after other contractors hadn't answered at all. The work itself centers on steps and brick repair — front steps, brick staircases, repointing — which comes up more than any other job type in the written reviews, alongside foundation patching and one chimney repair. On Thumbtack, where he's listed with 33 years in business by his own account, he holds a 4.7-star rating from 21 reviews; a couple of those fall below five stars (one landing at three, one at one), though nothing in what's posted explains why. On Google, all nine ratings are five stars, and repeat customers describe using him across multiple properties and referring him to family. Pricing comes up as a plus rather than a complaint — several reviewers specifically called his quotes reasonable, including one who'd been quoted elsewhere for a pool-deck repair that had already failed a couple of times. For a homeowner with a job too small to interest a bigger contractor — a cracked step, a patch of repointing, a chimney that needs attention — DiPace looks like the kind of call that gets answered and shown up for. Worth asking, given the light scattering of lower Thumbtack scores, what a bigger or more involved project would look like on timeline and cost before committing beyond the smaller repairs that dominate his written record.