Lucas Santos runs this Somerville carpentry and general-contracting outfit, and recent reviews keep describing the same operation: efficient, communicative, and willing to take on both small carpentry jobs and full remodels. This spring, reviewers praised a bay-window replacement and a full-unit repainting job, and one described Lucas's crew handling mini-blind installation, drywall repair, and rebuilding a garden grape arbor alongside a full apartment paint job.
That range shows up across six years and 32 reviews on Google, Thumbtack, and Houzz. In a 2024 review, a homeowner described Lucas replacing five old, rotting porches on a Somerville triple-decker with new composite ones, staying reachable by email or text and accommodating requests added mid-project; a 2025 review described a deck rebuild where small hiccups were addressed immediately and the workmanship held up well. A 2024 review mentioned a roof job for their parents, completed in under two days after they'd shopped several other companies.
On the general-contracting side, a 2025 review described a full renovation of an aging four-unit apartment building — new kitchens, new bathrooms, brought current for today's tenants — and a 2021 review described a condo remodel that combined a bathroom and kitchen job, working through a couple of inspection snags along the way. The company's own website adds additions, roofing, siding, and windows to the list, and describes it as veteran-owned.
What keeps coming up across the years, though, is straightforward dealing rather than upselling. In a 2022 review, one customer said Lucas's tiling installer talked them out of an unnecessary shower-floor repair, calling it a cosmetic issue that could wait rather than pushing a bigger, pricier job. Others describe fair, competitive quotes and budgets that were honored start to finish. The company's Massachusetts home improvement contractor license (#200336) is verified active, and the same number shows up on its Thumbtack and Houzz profiles.
The written record runs from 2020 through mid-2026 without a negative review in the mix — for a deck, porch, or general remodel job around Somerville and Boston, this is a well-documented, actively licensed operation with a real paper trail behind the five-star average.