ShoreView Masonry & Construction - filed with the Better Business Bureau as ShoreView Masonry - Basement & Foundation Repair Specialist, and listed on Procore and BuildZoom as ShoreView Masonry & Construction Corp - works out of 867 Boylston Street in Boston and is run by Phillip Berry. Its listings put it squarely in wet-basement work: basement waterproofing, foundation and crack repair, chimney repointing and flashing, alongside stonework, brick and blockwork, retaining walls, paver tiling and driveway and sidewalk work.
Customers who have written about it are uniformly positive. Angi and HomeAdvisor each publish 5.0 from the same 8 reviews, and the two pages mirror one another, so that is one set of eight rather than sixteen.
The longest accounts are the most convincing. A homeowner writing in March 2026 hired the company to repoint a chimney and waterproof a basement, and said Phillip arrived at the agreed time to estimate, gave a reasonable quote, and that the crew worked efficiently and left the site clean and tidy. In a February 2025 review, a customer said the company repaired their leaking basement and fixed inner walls that had decayed over the years, leaving it drier than it had been in ten years. Another February 2025 reviewer said Philip fixed their leaking basement, was reasonably priced, and had also done a neighbour's driveway and walkway.
Several things are worth pinning down before hiring. Stated tenure does not agree across the company's own listings: the BBB profile gives 28 years in business and a start date of February 1998, while Angi and HomeAdvisor both give 11 years of experience, and the BBB profile separately shows the business incorporated in January 2025 with its BBB file opened in March 2026. Four of the eight reviews, all dated March 2026, are written to one pattern - a problem sentence, a praise clause, then a result sentence - and two of those carry only the single letter W as the reviewer's name, so they carry less weight than the longer first-hand accounts. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration, number 214682, as active and held by the company; that is BuildZoom's own listing rather than a statement from the state registry, and BuildZoom advises checking status with the licence board. The BBB grades the company A+ while stating that it is not BBB accredited.
For a Boston-area wet basement, foundation crack or chimney repoint, the first-hand accounts are specific and consistent about diagnosis, tidiness and price. Ask for the registration number in writing, confirm it directly with the state, and get the waterproofing scope and price itemised.