Stone & Mason Design LLC

One of the good ones. We had a really hard time finding a reliable trust worthy company. Jim is definitely a great company to work with. Not only did he completely upgrade the look of our house but also did it in a timely manner. He built the deck in our backyard and it looks absolutely fantastic. The front stone work took a bit more time but was well worth it.

Do NOT hire this company! Stone & Mason Design, LLC and owner, Jim Rapuano, (aka James Michael Rapuano). Worst experience ever!!! Jim’s a smooth talker, “nice guy”, until he’s not. He piece mealed our projects for more than 8 months and then he demands we wait a full year for him to come back and fix the ridiculous mess he left us with. Short version, we paid him to cap our precasted front stairs w/ Blue stone & stack stone on the sides, a front walkway & a back patio. After the fact, we find out that the front stairs & walkway were not done to code. He capped the front stairs but left no drip edge. He did not know basic math and dug the walkway 2 1/2” too deep causing the first step into the house to be 10 1/2” and the remaining stairs varying heights. He didn’t know the building code fo

This company is absolutely terrible, we hired them in 2023 to do an outside patio with bar area and the job came out horrible. Pavers that were installed were not level the patio now has puddles everywhere. The retaining wall he installed was done completely wrong, seams match up everywhere and when I brought this to his attention he stated that he did that for strength which was incorrect that actually makes the wall less supportive. The stairs he did for us looked horrible and are already falling apart to where my daughter took a step and fell and because the block was not glued down and came apart. We paid for an outside bar/outside kitchen area and when the granite people showed up they laughed at me and stated that granite could not be placed on the bar/kitchen area because jim and hi

Great work. No overcharges. On time on target. Even took the time to show us how to maintain unrelated problems elsewhere on our property. The owner works with you quite a bit. Our situation was that we needed to let go a previous contractor and bring in another to fix and finish a job. Jim came in and explained everything and took a lot of time to work with us. That's important because we were able to manage our expectations regarding all of the work which was burying us at the time. I appreciated the honesty and candid approach to our stair well, sidewalk and drainage. He noticed we had a failing retaining wall and offered to take on that task as well for a surprisingly low deal. I say that because alot of contractors were quoting us 3, some even 4 times the amount Jim completed it for

Please do your homework before deciding to hir Jim R. at Stone & Mason Design out of Guilford CT. Working with Jim has been a complete nightmare. We contracted Jim to build a retaining wall around our pool, he took a 10% deposit when we signed the contract and 50% 10 days before the project was to begin but never full filled his contractual obligations and will not refund us the thousands of dollars he received. Please read the other reviews found on Google.