Real Dry Waterproofing

Real Dry Waterproofing works out of Hanover, MA, tackling wet basements and foundation problems — French drains, sump pumps, crack repair, wall reconstruction — for towns across the Boston area and the South Shore, out to Western Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. The company describes itself as family-run with about 40 years behind it, and it runs two contact lines, one for its Western Mass side and one for the eastern/South Shore side, which lines up with outside listings that also place a Real Dry location in Holyoke. Its actual review count is small. Google shows 4 stars from just 6 ratings, and outside directories don't agree with each other — Yahoo Local lists a perfect 5.0 across 3 reviews, while a review left on Google this year called the service "poor" and said the reviewer wouldn't recommend the company, without saying what went wrong. An older mention on Checkbook.org from 2016 described the owner, Curt, as efficient and cost-conscious on a job, and a contractor forum recounts him personally working out a multi-phase fix for a basement water problem — neither recent enough to say much about how the company operates today. The company's own site leans on seven straight Angie's List awards from 2012 through 2018, worth asking about since that run hasn't been refreshed in the years since, and no current Angi profile turned up to confirm standing today. This reads like a real, long-running basement and foundation outfit rather than a fly-by-night one, but with only a handful of ratings and one unexplained bad one this year, it's worth asking direct questions about workmanship, getting a written scope, and confirming which office — Western or South Shore — will actually staff the job.