Stratum Construction Inc.

One name runs through every review of Stratum Construction: Lee. He is the carpenter customers describe walking the job with them at the end of each day, and the detail in their accounts is unusual. A March 2024 homeowner replacing a porch ceiling wrote that Lee brought a laser to level the ceiling and position the electrical boxes, talked them through the molding trim and strapping, pulled in two more workers when the job needed them, and finished ahead of schedule and inside the estimate. The shop is owner-run out of 61 Macy Street in Quincy — Lindomar De Souza, with the site saying clients work directly with the owners — and its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, number 209493, is active in the state registry under the company's own name. Angi and HomeAdvisor both list Spanish spoken and International Code Council membership. The work skews to carpentry and exteriors: decks and porches, siding, trim, framing, cabinets, exterior shutters, even a custom kitchen table one customer had built to specific measurements. A February 2024 reviewer hired them for siding, trim, windows and a dormer, then interior trim and carpentry. Another hired them twice — a deck in 2022, then a bathroom remodel — and singled out being given options with pros and cons rather than one price. Here is the thing to weigh. All ten reviews on file are five stars, they all landed between February and May 2024, and the same ten appear on both Angi and HomeAdvisor because the two sites mirror each other. That is a narrow, bunched record from a single review family, and there is nothing on Google to check it against. Nothing in it looks off, but ten reviews from one four-month stretch two years ago is a thinner basis than the perfect average suggests. If you want carpentry-led work — a deck, a porch, siding and trim, a dormer — the accounts here are specific enough to be worth acting on. Ask for a job from the last year you can look at or a reference you can call, since the written record stops in 2024, and confirm the registration number 209493 on the state's own site before work starts.