R. P. Valois & Company is a South Dartmouth, Massachusetts general contractor with 43 years in business, still run under the Valois name — Roland P. Valois is listed as company president. The Better Business Bureau grades the firm A+, and reviewers on Houzz keep landing on the same two things: the quality of the finished work and the price. "He is fairly priced and his work is exceptional," one homeowner wrote in a 2018 review, echoed almost word for word by another that same year.
The written record on Houzz is entirely dated — all six reviews fall in 2017 and 2018 — but it points to real, varied work: a custom home built from scratch and delivered on time, a home addition, and, the clearest through-line across sources, historic home restoration. One client, an architect who says he has worked with Valois "on many projects over many years," describes finishing two projects for his own clients on strict deadlines in 2018 — a different kind of endorsement than a one-off homeowner review. Houzz also lists seven completed projects, a Construction Supervisor License (CS-081551), and NAHB certification.
Worth asking about before booking: BuildZoom carries a separate listing for the company under a Rhode Island contractor license (#19138 / GC-19138) tied to Roland Valois personally, but the page itself can't settle on that license's status — one entry calls it active and verified, another says it's active but has been expired since 2010, and a third marks it inactive and cancelled. None of that reflects our own registry check, so it's worth confirming directly with the company which license currently covers any Rhode Island work.
For a homeowner weighing a custom build, an addition, or restoring an older home, Valois reads like a firm built around bigger, coordinated projects rather than quick repairs — 30 employees and high-end or commercial work per BBB, with historic restoration as a recurring theme across every source that mentions it. The praise is old but specific and consistent rather than generic, so it's worth asking for a recent reference alongside the license clarification before signing anything.
