Wells Landscaping

The name says landscaping; the permit record says builder. BuildZoom counts 42 permitted projects almost entirely in Randolph, split 25 new constructions against 15 landscaping jobs, at a typical permit value near $158,600 — this is a shop that puts houses up as readily as it plants around them. The written history is short but useful. In May 2025 someone running a project wrote that Wells installed roughly 2,000 linear feet of watermain, calling the crew professional and easy to deal with and the pricing reasonable for what got delivered. A 2023 customer kept it briefer: personable, polite, good job, would use them again. The one sour note is not about the work at all. In April 2025 a driver said a rock came off one of the company's trucks and dented their windshield — a complaint about how the fleet is run rather than how a job finishes, and a large part of why the Google average sits at 4.1 across 8 ratings. The business itself goes back a long way. BBB puts it at 43 years, established in Massachusetts in 1983 as Karl D. Wells & Son Landscaping, with five employees under owner Karl Wells, and grades it A+ without accreditation. BuildZoom lists an active Massachusetts construction supervisor licence, CS-116343, and an active home improvement contractor registration, 202560, issued in April 2026, alongside two older registration numbers it records as inactive — directory listings rather than registry confirmations. For site work, drainage and landscape construction — or a house built outright — the permit volume and the licence list are there. Ask for the current registration numbers, and if you are on a tight residential street, ask how they secure their loads.