SEAL A DECK

Seal-A-Deck is a Peabody outfit built around exactly what its name promises — restoring and sealing wood decks — and the volume behind that focus is hard to ignore: 4.8 stars across 130 Google ratings and 4.7 across 64 more on Angi, with the company citing 26 years in business. Founder Michael Kaloutas runs it with a team of project managers, and the company says its territory covers Boston, MetroWest, the North Shore and South Shore, Cape Cod, southern New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The last six months of Google reviews are uniformly positive and keep circling back to one name: Nicole, the project coordinator credited with keeping quotes, scheduling, and questions moving without friction. One customer's deck — over 20 years old — got a callback visit the very next day to re-stain a patch that hadn't come out right, the kind of follow-through that shows up more than once in this recent stretch. Others describe pairing a deck job with other work, like refinishing a large mahogany deck alongside painting the house. Before booking, it's worth asking about a few things the company's own longer history raises. Its Angi record, alongside a strong overall average, also includes a billing-explanation dispute, an instance of mold returning to a deck within six months of treatment, and repeated complaints about slow office responsiveness reaching the owner — echoed by a Google reviewer who described unanswered calls and texts and no room to negotiate on price. None of that shows up in the current six months of reviews, but it's worth confirming response times and getting any maintenance guarantee spelled out. Its Houzz profile is also currently marked suspended and shows no reviews there, which sits oddly against the volume built on Google and Angi — more likely a lapsed listing than a quality signal, but worth noting. For a wood deck that needs sealing, staining, or repair — or a matching fence or teak furniture restoration — Seal-A-Deck is a well-established call in the North Shore area with a deep and, lately, clean record. Confirm turnaround times and get maintenance terms in writing before signing.