Ben the Mason

Ben the Mason works out of Beverly, and one number says most of what you need to know: 4.9 stars across 165 Google ratings, built almost entirely on foundation work, brick and stone steps, and old walls that had gone too long without attention. The reviews go back to 2021 and now span four different sites — 139 in total — and the story barely changes from one call to the next. Someone reaches out about a cracked foundation, a crumbling front step, or a fieldstone wall that's finally giving out, and Ben, often working alongside one of his sons rather than a larger crew, is there within a day or two to fix exactly that. The last six months brought 23 reviews and not a single complaint among them. In that stretch: a front stairway rebuilt in granite and bluestone, then power-washed and acid-finished to match the original stone; a six-step brick staircase rebuilt from the ground up; a fieldstone foundation on a circa-1900 house repointed and patched around its boulders; a hundred-year-old brick catch basin torn out and rebuilt so cleanly the repair doesn't show; a concrete foundation poured for a small prefabricated building, with the crew taking care not to tear up the surrounding lawn; and a 40-foot brick walkway poured from the front door out to the driveway. Pricing comes up almost as often as the work itself — reviewers across the full run describe quotes as fair and the final bill matching what was discussed, without add-on surprises. For a cracked foundation, sagging brick steps, or a stone wall worth saving rather than replacing, this is a contractor people call more than once — several of these reviews are from repeat customers on their second or third project. Since it's Ben and a son doing the work directly rather than a rotating crew, pin down a start date on the estimate visit; the pattern here is jobs beginning within a day or two of that first call.