SEAL A DECK

Seal A Deck is a Peabody outfit built around one specific skill: reviving tired decks rather than tearing them out. Reviewers describe 20- and 30-year-old mahogany, oak and pine decks — even one client's 120-year-old porch — coming back through cleaning, sanding and staining rather than a full rebuild, and the company will say so upfront: one customer was talked out of replacing deck boards with Trex and told a good sanding and reseal would do, a call that reportedly saved them thousands. Its written record stretches back to 2014 across Google and Angi — 98 reviews in all — and the recent stretch is strong: the last six months brought seven reviews, all positive. Project managers Nicole and Dan come up by name again and again for keeping customers informed step by step, and when something isn't right the crew has come back to fix it: one customer flagged a few loose boards after the job and the team was back the next day, and another whose cleaning and board work fell short got a personal visit from Dan and Antonio who owned the miss, in a 2023 review. On bigger jobs — rebuilding a rotted 20-year-old elevated deck a previous contractor had abandoned mid-project, in a 2023 review, or replacing an entire railing system after finding hidden rot, in a 2024 review — the record shows real structural carpentry, not just cosmetic staining. What to know before calling: pricing has come up as a sore point more than once. In a 2022 review, a customer described signing two contracts and paying a deposit before being told the price needed to rise by $1,200 over an estimating error, echoing a similar scaffolding-versus-ladder pricing dispute from 2015. A 2025 reviewer said the crew was slow to return calls and wouldn't negotiate on price. And one 2024 job stands out as a genuine miss — missed areas, rough hand railings, a promised final walkthrough that never happened, and an owner who didn't respond to follow-up. For a deck that needs saving rather than replacing, Seal A Deck's record backs the work — just get the estimate and any add-on charges in writing before signing.