SEAL A DECK

Seal-A-Deck's name says exactly what it does: cleaning, sanding, staining, and sealing wood decks, plus fence restoration and teak furniture refinishing, for homeowners across the Boston area. The company says it's run by Michael Kaloutas and covers MetroWest, the North Shore, the South Shore, Cape Cod, southern New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The story that keeps showing up in this spring's Google reviews is a process, not a pitch: clean or power-wash the deck, sand it, then stain it, sometimes across several scheduled visits. In mid-June, one homeowner described the crew cleaning the deck on day one and returning days later to sand and finally stain it. A pool-deck job in April had the crew arrive early, work a full day, then come back over two more days so a new deck extension matched an older, already-stained section. Another April review described a 12-hour day prepping and sanding a rear deck, then returning after rain delays to stain the front deck in two coats. The jobs run through named roles rather than one person showing up alone — one June review credits a consultation with Geoff, coordination from project manager Kerri, and the prep-and-stain work to Danny's crew, and another describes the owner quoting a job from photos and satellite imagery instead of a site visit. That pattern carries through 47 Google ratings sitting close to five stars, and the same praise goes back through their reviews to 2022. Its ratings don't agree across platforms, though: Angi puts Seal-A-Deck at 3.5 stars from 49 ratings, well under its near-five-star average on Google. The Better Business Bureau grades it A+. And the business's address is inconsistent across directories — Newton, Peabody, and Salem, MA addresses all surface for the same name and phone number — worth confirming which office currently covers your area. Seal-A-Deck is the call for a deck that's faded or neglected rather than one that needs tearing down and rebuilding — restoration and refinishing is the job that shows up again and again in its reviews, with an occasional teak-furniture refresh or damaged-board swap folded in. Given how differently Google and Angi rate the same company, it's worth asking a recent customer directly how scheduling and any weather delays were handled before booking.