Robert Home & Yard Improvement

Robert Home & Yard Improvement is a Barnstable outfit built for the un-glamorous but visible jobs — a rebuilt porch, a re-stained deck, a rickety fence swapped out — the kind of work a homeowner notices every time they pull into the driveway. Carlos runs the crew, and across 67 reviews spanning Google, HomeAdvisor, Thumbtack and BBB since 2022, his name comes up in nearly every account. The Google page holds a 4.9★ average from 44 ratings, and HomeAdvisor logs 4.8★ from 32. The write-ups describe a consistent pattern: an estimate that shows up fast, a crew that arrives when it says it will, and a job that lands on the quoted price. One homeowner had two porches rebuilt in a matter of days; another swapped in composite steps and railings for crumbling brick ones; a third had grab bars and a comfort-height toilet installed to help a husband with dementia and Parkinson's get around safely. The specifics repeat across years — fence installation, roof and deck power-washing, deck re-staining, exterior trim and shingle work — not just in one good month. Not every job has gone smoothly. A HomeAdvisor review from this spring described a shower-door install where the crew showed up without a level or tape measure, on top of no-shows and delays, and water left running outside that hit wiring and knocked out power to part of the house; that reviewer said they wouldn't hire Carlos again for two other planned projects, though they praised the tile and plumbing subcontractors by name. In a 2025 Google review, a customer called the company unprofessional and shady and said they wouldn't want it working near an occupied building. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration (HIC 210915) is registry-verified active through January 2028; BBB separately lists a second Massachusetts license number, CSFA-106793, for the business. For exterior carpentry, decks, fences, and general home-improvement projects handled start to finish by one crew, this is a reasonable call — just nail down the plan and a single point of contact given the spring complaint about communication and site oversight.