ED&M Construction and Landscape

ED&M Construction and Landscape works out of Lynn, and the pattern across its Google reviews is consistent: someone reaches out, Ed or his crew responds the same day, and the yard or masonry job gets scheduled within a week. The company says it has been in business since 2010 — about sixteen years — describing itself as a masonry, landscaping, and snow-removal contractor covering North Shore towns from Andover to Topsfield. Reviewers who name the owner call him "Eddy" or "Ed," and several describe him working the job himself alongside his crew, sometimes his son, rather than just running the business from an office. The past six months brought 16 reviews and not one negative one, on top of a 4.9-star average across 49 Google ratings built up since 2023. Recent jobs described in detail include a cracked walkway rebuild and a pressure-washed, sealed side patio finished with "no cutting corners," a full backyard regrade with a new crushed-stone-and-brick pathway, and a lawn reseeding job that started with stripping out weed-choked turf and a grub treatment before reseeding. Same-day quotes and crews showing up within a day or two come up again and again, whether the job is a spring cleanup, a mulching project, or emergency snow plowing after a storm. Pricing is called reasonable in review after review, not cheap, not high. One thing worth flagging: despite turning up here under a fencing search, nothing in ED&M's own site or its review history describes a fence installation or repair job. Its stated services and the work customers describe are masonry (patios, walkways, retaining walls, brick repair), lawn and landscape maintenance, and seasonal snow plowing — fencing isn't mentioned anywhere in what customers actually hired them for. For yard cleanup, hardscaping, or seasonal snow and landscape upkeep in the North Shore towns it covers, ED&M has a deep and almost entirely positive recent record. Anyone hiring for fence work specifically should confirm directly that they take it on, since no customer has described that job; anyone hiring for a bigger masonry build should ask for a timeline, since most of the detailed recent praise centers on cleanup and maintenance rather than large-scale construction.