Gamache Construction

Gamache Construction, LLC works out of 160 Otis Street in Northborough and covers MetroWest and Worcester County. The Massachusetts registry confirms an active Home Improvement Contractor registration, number 145576, held in the company's name; the Better Business Bureau records Chris Gamache as owner and the business as started in January 2000. BuildZoom, which files the company under his own name, shows seventy-six permitted projects — the fullest picture of what this firm actually builds. Those permits are mostly structural residential work, not surface refreshes. A 2019 Northborough job was a two-storey addition renovating the existing first and second floors with hard-wired smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, valued at $129,140. Another built a dormer across the back of a house to enlarge two bedrooms and a bathroom. A 2021 permit covers an eight-by-sixteen addition at the back of a house; a 2019 one covers opening up a stairway, removing a load-bearing wall and installing new LVL beams and posts. A 2022 Braintree permit reads simply "Complete interior renovation" at $124,000. Customers describe the same range and add the finish work. In October 2025 a homeowner having a tub replaced with a walk-in shower listed everyone who came through — "the construction guys, the plasterer, the tile people, the plumbers, the electrcian, and the painters" — and called them all professional and meticulous. In April 2026 someone whose garage corner had been hit by a car described structural repair with a clear estimate, finished on time, with the whole side repainted so it matched. In February 2026 a repeat client who had first hired them for a basement came back years later for a mudroom and deck addition plus a complete renovation of both floors. One reviewer in January 2026 said they had used the company for over fifteen years. The written praise is unusually uniform: all twenty-three reviews on file are five stars and Google shows a 5.0 average across thirty ratings. Two things temper that. A permit-tracking site reports that permits filed under Christopher R Gamache / Gamache Construction LLC in Worcester have closed at 75% against a city median of 99%, with two still open — closing out a permit is what gets a job signed off, so it is fair to ask. And one October 2025 reviewer, while positive overall, wrote that "we had some communication hurdles", adding that the company was nevertheless there for an emergency. For an addition, a dormer, a gut bathroom or a whole-floor renovation in the Northborough and Worcester area, this is a strong candidate with a long permit history behind it. Ask about the open Worcester permits, and get the sign-off milestones written into the contract.