ShoreView Masonry & Construction

Ask what ShoreView Masonry & Construction gets called for and the answer is almost always water — a basement that floods, a foundation crack that keeps weeping, chimney flashing rusted through. The company works out of 867 Boylston Street in Boston and pairs that repair work with straight masonry: brick and stone, retaining walls, walkways and driveways. Its written history is short and uniformly positive. Eight reviews across Angi and HomeAdvisor, all five stars, running from early 2025 into this spring. The most useful ones name the owner. In a February 2025 account a homeowner wrote that Phillip and his crew repaired a leaking basement and rebuilt inner walls that had decayed over the years, and said the basement "has not been this dry in over 10 years". Another customer that same month credited Philip with fixing a leaking basement at a reasonable price, then mentioned a neighbour's driveway and walkway the crew had also done. Reviews posted this March describe chimney repointing, replaced flashing, sealed foundation cracks, and a waterproofing system that held through heavy rain. Two things are worth pinning down before booking. The five-star run is thin and oddly uniform: four of the March 2026 entries share the same two-sentence shape — problem, then perfect fix — two of them signed only "W", and five of the eight are Google reviews republished on Angi and HomeAdvisor rather than separate accounts. The company's stated age also moves depending on where you read it: Angi and HomeAdvisor say 11 years, while its BBB profile says 28, with a start date of February 1998 and incorporation in January 2025. On licensing, BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, number 214682, for the company under owner Phillip Berry. That is BuildZoom's listing rather than something confirmed with the state, so ask to see the registration and check it yourself. Its BBB page carries an A+ grade, though that same page states the business is not BBB accredited — two separate things. For a wet basement or a cracked foundation in Boston, Brookline, Newton or Somerville, the towns it says it covers, ShoreView is a reasonable call, especially if you want the masonry side handled by the same crew. Confirm the registration with the state, and ask for a couple of nearby jobs you can go and look at.