EXPRESS REMODELING GROUP, LLC

Express Remodeling Group is a Medford general contractor whose calling card is scale: kitchen and bathroom gut renovations, second-floor and attic additions, and full two-family overhauls taken down to the studs. The theme that keeps repeating across reviews from 2022 through 2025 isn't a compliment about paint or tile — it's homeowners coming back. In a 2023 Houzz review, one client wrote this was their third hire over 13 years; in a 2025 Google review, another said the company was still their first call two years after a prior project wrapped. The company says on its site it has renovated homes across the Boston area for more than 20 years, working Boston, the South Shore, North Shore, and MetroWest. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active. Both Google and Houzz carry deep review histories that agree with each other — 32 ratings averaging 4.5★ on Google, 27 at a full 5.0★ on Houzz, where the company also holds five Houzz Awards and four badges. The scale of the work shows up in specifics. A 2023 review describes a two-family gut renovation that lowered and underpinned the foundation, rebuilt the plumbing and electrical, reframed the house, and finished two kitchens and five bathrooms. A separate 2023 kitchen job — down to the studs, with a chimney and part of a wall removed — finished in exactly ten weeks with no delays and on the original estimate. A 2024 review mentions a central heating and cooling installation that replaced an old gas baseboard system, and a 2025 review describes a second-floor and attic remodel finished on time. Across several of these years, reviewers keep returning to the same two things: Wagner being on site day to day, and the office staff getting back to people quickly. One thing worth confirming: the Better Business Bureau lists Express as non-accredited — it carries an A+ grade and 22 years in business on that profile, but the listing itself doesn't show a complaint count or customer reviews. The multi-region service area is the company's own description rather than something verified independently. For a homeowner planning a full kitchen or bathroom gut renovation, an addition, or a larger whole-house project, this is a company with an unusually long paper trail of finished, similarly-scaled jobs for its size — worth asking how a specific project's estimate and timeline would be structured before signing.