Kings Masonry & Construction

A chimney that needs rebuilding. A foundation crack that's been nagging someone for years. A wet basement. That's the kind of call Kings Masonry & Construction picks up in Hingham, and forty-nine reviews across seven sites, dating back to 2021, tell largely the same story: a guy named John running the crew, checking in personally as the job moves. The most recent stretch of reviews backs that up with specifics. In May, one customer described John's team replacing a basement bulkhead and restoring the surrounding foundation, with John checking in regularly and laying out each step before it happened — the work came with a 30-year warranty. A few weeks earlier, another homeowner said John took on a fieldstone foundation repair and showed up exactly when he said he would. That same pattern — plain talk about the plan, then following through on it — runs through the older reviews too, which lean heavily on chimney rebuilds, brick repointing, and stone wall work: watertight flashing, restored brickwork, a new garden wall, and repeated mentions of a clean job site afterward. It isn't a spotless record. Among the 49 reviews sits one account that reads very differently from the rest: a customer alleging serious problems with a chimney liner and roof job, including workmanship they had to redo years later. It's a single outlier against dozens of positive accounts, but a real one — and worth asking about directly if the job in question leans toward roofing, which isn't the trade this company's reviews are otherwise built on. Its Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor license (#207682) checks out as active with the state registry, which counts for more than the 4.8-star average on Google or the perfect 5.0 on Angi. One wrinkle worth noting: its BBB profile lists the business as too new to rate, under six months old, which doesn't line up with a review history stretching back to 2021 — worth a quick question about which entity or DBA you'd actually be signing with. For chimney work, foundation repair, or a basement that's taking on water, this is a well-documented crew with a mostly consistent history behind it. Get the warranty terms in writing, and if the job leans more toward roofing than masonry or foundation work, ask a few more questions before signing anything.