Patriot Paving

Patriots Paving and Masonry works the Greater Boston area — reviewers write in from Marblehead, Mattapan, and Back Bay — and most of what people actually hire them for isn't paving at all. It's chimneys, brick walls, foundations, and stonework: 39 Google reviews running from early 2024 into 2026, and the same crew names keep coming up job after job, James, Andy, and John among them. The detail in the praise is where the real read is. In a review from early 2024, a homeowner who'd owned a 108-year-old house for 43 years and hired plenty of contractors called this one the most professional to work with, on time and on budget start to finish. A Back Bay job in late 2024 — an extensive brick-and-paver overhaul on a home there — drew a specific, unreserved recommendation for the masonry work itself. Several other reviewers describe basement water and foundation problems getting fixed, with the crew keeping them updated as the job moved along. A few things are worth asking about before signing. Across 2025, more than one reviewer describes the price climbing once work was underway — a stairs-and-foundation job that turned into a bigger repair than quoted, and a chimney liner priced at $850 that became a $6,500 bill after the crew found more to fix. One reviewer's advice is blunt: get a written quote and a signed contract before anything starts. A March 2026 review, the only one on file in the last six months, describes a $75,000 court judgment against the company that the reviewer says has gone unpaid — a serious claim from a single account, and one worth confirming independently rather than taking at face value. A separate reviewer says they were told twice someone would come look at a leak, then got no-shows both times. None of that erases the volume of specific accounts of chimney rebuilds and masonry work done well. But the pricing pattern showing up across more than one independent review, alongside the recent unpaid-judgment claim, is exactly the kind of thing to raise on the first call — get the full scope and a firm number in writing, and ask about current standing before putting money down.