General Contractor in Quincy, MA

Much of Quincy was built out between the 1890s and the 1940s. In Wollaston and North Quincy you find hip-roof colonials, bungalows and two-family homes on tight lots. Houghs Neck, Adams Shore and parts of Squantum started as summer cottage areas, and many of those houses were winterized and expanded over the decades, so walls, floors and plumbing often come from several different eras in the same building.

Near the water, salt air and wind-driven rain are hard on exterior trim, window sills and anything with exposed fasteners. Inside, low-lying lots near the shore and the marshes can mean damp basements and crawl spaces, which is something to plan around before putting new flooring on a lower level. In West Quincy, around the old granite quarry area, homes sit on higher, rockier ground and deal less with water and more with age: plaster walls, old cast iron drains and floors that are no longer level.

Many Quincy homes were built before 1978, so lead-safe work practices (EPA RRP) apply when old painted surfaces are disturbed. That matters for any bathroom gut or trim replacement.

Bathroom remodels are the most common request. Older Quincy bathrooms tend to be small, with original tile, weak ventilation and drains that have been patched more than once. We rebuild them with proper waterproofing behind tile and a vent fan sized for the room, which matters in a city where humid coastal summers and closed-up winters both push moisture into the walls.

Flooring is close behind. Two-families in North Quincy and Wollaston often have worn hardwood upstairs and tired vinyl in kitchens and baths. In basements and ground floors near the shore, we usually steer homeowners toward water-resistant options like luxury vinyl plank or porcelain tile instead of solid wood, because ground moisture near the coast tends to win over time.

We also do kitchen and bath cabinet installation, drywall and carpentry repairs, condo unit updates in buildings around Marina Bay and Quincy Center, and post-construction cleaning when a renovation is done and the house needs to be livable again.