Royal Contracting

Twenty-seven years in Dedham, MA is a long run for any contractor, and Royal Contracting's owner Dermot McElligott has the review trail to match: 25 reviews stretching from 2008 to 2025 across three platforms, most of them detailed accounts of kitchen and bathroom remodels, decks, porches, and the general renovation work that makes up whole-home projects. The company handles basement remodels, kitchen and bathroom remodels, deck and porch construction, and larger home renovations, plus smaller jobs like painting and plastering. The reviews read like a contractor who shows up and finishes. A 2025 review describes a new two-story exterior staircase built for a reasonable price; another from the same year describes interior painting, wall plastering, and hanging doors, mirrors, and drapery rails, with the crew working extra hours to finish before guests arrived. Further back, a 2010 review describes a complete kitchen renovation with a new entry and side door, and a 2013 review tells the story of building a portico for a ranch house — the crew worked past 7pm on a Friday to beat the rain, and absorbed a late design change at no extra cost. Bathroom remodels come up again and again in reviews dated 2008 through 2010, with reviewers consistently mentioning punctuality, daily clean-up, and pricing that came in fair or under budget. The one substantive complaint on file is a 2011 review from a customer who hired Royal Contracting for a kitchen and bathroom remodel in an older building: about six months after the project finished, they needed another plumber to fix a leaking kitchen faucet, reinstall a pull-out wastebasket drawer, and address an overflow-drain leak in the bathtub. It's the lone flagged issue in an otherwise clean run of positive accounts spanning close to two decades, but worth asking about directly — specifically what warranty coverage applies to plumbing fixtures installed during a remodel. Royal Contracting is listed with a Massachusetts trade license (#164231) on HomeAdvisor and Houzz, and carries an Angi Approved Pro badge and an Angie's List Super Service Award. For a full kitchen or bathroom remodel, a deck or porch build, or a mix of smaller home-improvement jobs in the Dedham area, this is a contractor with two decades of specific, checkable stories behind it — confirm current scheduling and get the specifics of any workmanship warranty in writing before signing on for a larger project.