Ziggy's Small Engine Repair

Ziggy's Small Engine Repair is a mobile small-engine repair outfit based at 153 Log Hill Rd in Carlisle, and it is the kind of business you call when the snow blower dies the week of a storm. Its own site describes servicing homeowners' outdoor power equipment — mowers, snow blowers, generators, pressure washers — either on site at your property or through free pickup and delivery, and it names Bedford, Concord, Westford, Chelmsford, Acton and Carlisle as the towns it covers. The track record is small but unusually consistent: eight reviews on file between 2018 and 2026 across five sources, all of them positive, with a 5-star Google average from 8 ratings and 5.0 from 2 on Thumbtack. What recurs is not vague praise but the same named operator — customers write about "Jason" by name across years, one saying in a 2024 review that he had been servicing their John Deere riding mower for the previous couple of years, and another in a 2023 review describing him diagnosing both a generator and a ride-on mower and then showing them what had caused the faults. A January 2026 reviewer called the work prompt and professional at a very fair price after a snowblower repair. Speed and on-site convenience are the through-line. A 2022 reviewer described being squeezed in before a major storm rather than after it, with the carburetor cleaned out beyond the original fix and the fee quoted before the work started; a 2018 Thumbtack customer said he arrived within hours and was gone within the hour. That recurring "he comes to you" pattern matches what the business advertises about itself. Worth asking about before booking: how long the business has actually been trading, because the sources disagree sharply — its own site says more than 10 years, BBB records a business start of 1/1/2015, and its Thumbtack profile claims 20 years — and how many people are behind it, since BBB lists 8 employees while Thumbtack lists 1. Also confirm the current phone number, as different listings publish different ones. This is a fit for a homeowner who needs equipment repaired at home rather than hauled to a shop; ask for the quote up front, as past customers say they received.