Peters Deck Builder

Peters Deck Builder is Peterson Passos's Newton-based deck and patio shop, working the MetroWest corridor — Concord, Belmont, Arlington, Lexington, Winchester, Wellesley — building custom wood, composite and PVC decks alongside patios, pergolas and paver installs. The company's own website says it has been building decks for ten years; its Thumbtack and Angi profiles both list eight, so the safer number is somewhere just under a decade. The ratings line up almost uniformly high: five stars on Google across eight ratings, five stars on Angi across six, 4.9 out of 5 on Thumbtack across fourteen. The specifics repeat across platforms rather than shifting by source — a deck finished on schedule, careful attention to trim and railings, a crew reviewers describe as easy to reach and quick to answer questions. One Angi review is a callback rather than a first install: Peterson fixed a gutter leak that wasn't his original work and replaced trim on the posts, and the homeowner came away just as happy with that repair as with the build itself. The most recent word, a Thumbtack review from August 2026, breaks that pattern: the reviewer says the deck came out nice but the installation ran far longer than promised, the work area was left in disarray, and a billing question was still unresolved when they wrote it. It's the one sour note in an otherwise consistent history and worth raising directly — ask for a firm timeline and confirm how billing gets settled before work starts. Separately, BuildZoom's directory listing shows no license on file for the company; directory records like that lag behind reality often enough that it's worth confirming licensing yourself rather than reading anything into it either way. For a deck, patio or pergola project in the Newton/MetroWest area, the history here supports a shortlist spot — just pin down the schedule and payment terms in writing given the one recent complaint about exactly those two things.