SQS Construction LLC

SQS Construction is a Boston door-and-window outfit built around one guy: founder Gerone Trevor Powell, whom reviewers on Google, Angi and HomeAdvisor keep describing as the one who actually shows up, quotes the job, and does the install himself. The company says it started as SQS Construction in 2017 and became SQS Construction LLC in March 2020, and its own site describes it as a door and window replacement specialist that also takes on renovation work. The volume backs that focus up: 55 reviews on file from 2020 through 2024 across six sources, running 4.9-5★ on Google (37 ratings), Angi and HomeAdvisor (47 ratings apiece). The specifics repeat a pattern — storm doors, exterior door replacements, vinyl window swaps, the occasional dog or pet door — and a good share of reviews describe Gerone finding a problem bigger than the one he was called for: in a 2023 review he pulled an exterior door and found the surrounding wood rotted through, then rebuilt the frame before hanging the new one; in two October 2022 reviews, replacing storm and entry doors on a first home turned up old termite damage that had eaten into the foyer floor and wall, and the crew rebuilt both rather than papering over it. A 2020 review describes the same pattern on a cellar door — a full frame and wall rebuild once they got into the job. Not everything lands clean. A 2022 Angi review — the one 1-star mark on file — describes a job that went sideways: repeated no-shows and missed call-backs, then caulking around a replaced window the customer called sloppy. It's an outlier next to dozens of on-time, communicative accounts, but it's a real complaint about the actual work, not just scheduling friction. Worth asking about before booking: the company's own site describes its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration and construction supervisor license as current, but the state registry shows that HIC registration, number 198747, has lapsed — worth confirming directly before signing anything, since Massachusetts requires an active HIC for this kind of work. For a homeowner with a door or window job — especially one where the frame behind it might be hiding rot or damage — SQS's record is built on exactly that kind of surprise. Confirm the current license status and get the finish work spelled out in the estimate, and the rest of the record points to a contractor who does the harder-than-expected version of the job rather than walking away from it.