P. A. Darcy Co.

P. A. Darcy Co. is a Norwood-based general contractor run by Paul Darcy, historically called in for structural repairs, attic ladder installs, and basement or kitchen renovation work around the South Shore and Norfolk County. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active. Reviews from 2021 through mid-2022 describe fast callbacks and a careful process: Paul returning calls within ten minutes, bringing a structural engineer at no charge to assess damage at a church, and installing attic ladders and removing a basement column in jobs customers called thorough. A different pattern shows up starting in 2022: a BuildZoom review describes a gutted kitchen, bathroom and basement left unfinished for over a year after he kept missing promised return visits, and by 2023 one customer wrote that after taking him to court over a withheld deposit, he threatened to tell her employer she had defamed him unless she deleted her Google review. By late 2024 the same shape of complaint shows up independently on Reddit and on Porch: a deposit taken for a kitchen job, then no further contact, including one account involving a customer who was eight months pregnant at the time. A Boston Globe article about the company in early 2025 isn't itself part of the visible record, but it drew roughly a dozen one-star Google reviews from readers reacting to the coverage rather than describing their own jobs — worth knowing when reading Google's current 3.6★ average, which sits well below BuildZoom's 4.0★ and Porch's 4.4★. The Better Business Bureau lists a B- grade with one complaint on file. The older jobs — attic ladders, structural consults, smaller repairs — read as genuinely well handled, and the state registration remains active. But the deposit-and-disappear complaints span three platforms over three years, independent of the news coverage, so anyone considering a kitchen, bath, or basement remodel here should get a firm start date in writing and avoid handing over a deposit that isn't tied to it.