Ripano Stoneworks Ltd

Ripano Stoneworks is a stone fabrication and countertop shop on East Hollis Street in Nashua, and the work homeowners hire them for is narrow and specific: measuring, cutting and installing granite, marble, soapstone and quartz tops for kitchens, bathrooms and fireplaces. The Better Business Bureau lists them as an accredited business with an A+ grade, and their listed services run from granite kitchen countertops and vanity tops to fireplace facing, furniture tops and commercial stone work. The hiring record is deep and unusually consistent. Google carries 4.8 stars from 128 ratings, and the written reviews from 2021 through 2026 describe the same sequence over and over: a showroom visit where staff walk buyers through stone options, a templating appointment, then an install crew. Reviewers name the people involved by first name across years, and several describe coming back for a second, third or fourth project. The praise is specific rather than generic. A 2024 reviewer said the template process is "quick and precise" and that the templater made suggestions they had not thought of; a 2022 homeowner with an angled breakfast nook described the shop getting the countertop in with only two seams; a 2024 review credited a repair of a marble counter smashed by a meat tenderizer as "hardly detectable now." A 2023 reviewer said the shop stepped in after another company folded mid-project and finished it. In a 2023 review, a customer said they had used Ripano for over 20 years. The harder stories are worth reading before booking. A 2024 reviewer walked through a 14-foot island slab with complex veining where a seam did not line up on install day, and described the shop coming back to make it right; the reviewer still rated the job five stars, but it is the clearest picture in the record of what a difficult slab looks like. The one negative on file is from 2021, when a neighbour rated the company one star for blocking a public road during an install without signage or a flagger — not a complaint about the stonework, but a fair thing to raise with the crew if your street is tight. This is a fabricator, not a remodeler: they supply and install the stone, and reviewers describe them working alongside a homeowner's own kitchen or bath project rather than running it. If you are choosing a slab and want a shop with a long, dated and mostly first-hand record in southern New Hampshire, Ripano fits. Ask how the seam layout will fall on any long or heavily veined piece, get the lead time in writing, and confirm site access and parking for the install day.