Gallagher Remodeling, Inc.

Gallagher Remodeling has been a Better Business Bureau accredited business since November 1995 and holds an A+ grade there - a thirty-year accreditation is unusual, and it is the strongest independent signal on this company. It has traded from Belmont since 1986 under president Roger Gallagher, with an office manager and a handful of staff, and works as a design-build firm rather than a builder taking someone else's drawings. The work is large and design-led. Its permit record runs to 33 projects with a typical value around $120,000 - several times the usual for a residential remodeler - including Belmont jobs permitted at $447,000 and $220,000 in 2025, $150,000 in late 2024 and $90,000 in early 2025, a 2018 Newton kitchen, a 2022 Arlington deck and a 2014 Cambridge multi-family basement conversion. Its own portfolio names an unfinished attic turned into a primary suite, a carriage house converted to an art studio, and a deck and patio scheme. It has been recognised repeatedly by its trade association: Contractor of the Year awards for Best Residential Exterior in 2018 and 2019, Best Residential Kitchen in 2019, Best Residential Bath in 2015, and a Green Project Award in 2010. Roger Gallagher is described as a Master Certified Remodeler, a Green Certified Professional, and a Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist, and as past president of his association's New England chapter. The customer record is where to be careful. Four reviews exist, all five stars, none written since March 2018 - and two of the four are not customers at all: one is a designer who has supplied design services to the firm since 2004, the other an interior designer who describes herself as one of its preferred designers. That leaves two homeowner accounts. In a 2018 review, a customer described a dark kitchen transformed into a modern space and said she extended the job to replace carpet with wood floors, praising step-by-step communication with no surprises. In a 2014 review, a repeat client said the team was respectful and orderly and minimised the disruption of living through renovations. Credentials need checking. The company's own site states it holds a Massachusetts construction supervisor licence and RRP lead-safe certification but publishes no number for either, and the licence number it lists on its directory profile, 044121, is shown elsewhere as a lapsed City of Newton registration. A separate directory lists Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration 127684 as active. Ask for 127684 and the construction supervisor number and confirm both with the state - lead-safe status matters if your house predates 1978. Its stated coverage is Belmont, Cambridge, Newton, Lexington, Winchester and Wayland, so confirm it travels to you.