Well Done Landscapes LLC

A front patio installed five years earlier — still level, still draining, no cracking anywhere. That was a homeowner writing in 2022, and it points at what Well Done Landscapes is really hired for: stonework built to outlast the season it went in. The Lakeville company covers southeastern Massachusetts, the South Shore and Cape Cod, and its work runs from lawn maintenance, irrigation and lawn installation through fence installation, masonry repairs and snow-and-ice management. It says it started as a moonlight venture in the summer of 2006, after its founder spent 2003 onward learning design and stone construction from a British master mason named Ian Witt. BuildZoom's profile names John Rocharz IV as owner and president. The reviews carry unusual specifics for a landscaper. A 2024 customer described masonry veneer panels laid over existing concrete retaining walls instead of tearing them out, and a failing asphalt walkway replaced. Another, the same summer, had a walkway and granite stairs built and was kept updated daily by a foreman named Nick. A 2022 reviewer recounted the crew recapping each day on site and replacing sod and reseeding the turf they had worked over. In a 2023 review a homeowner got an end-of-day email laying out the next day's plan. Across 45 Google ratings the average is 4.8, and all 22 written reviews sit at five stars — though they run back to 2021 and only one has landed in the past six months. One thing to settle before signing: the Massachusetts registry shows this company's home improvement contractor registration, #194766, as expired. That matters more here than it would for a mow-and-blow outfit, because patios, walkways, granite steps and retaining walls are home improvement work rather than the landscaping-only work the state exempts. Ask where the registration stands. Smaller, but worth raising: one 2023 customer who still gave five stars wished for clearer word on when the project would actually begin. If the job is hardscape — a patio, steps, a retaining wall, a drainage fix — this is a crew whose customers keep describing neat sites, daily contact and work that held up years later. Get the registration status and the start window in writing, and the rest is well documented.