Roycroft Restoration

Roycroft Restoration is a one-owner Somerville shop built around old houses — porches and exterior repairs, interior renovation, historic restoration, custom woodworking, kitchens and baths — run by Andrew Brandt, who works under the name Andy. The credentials check out, which is not always the case. Both numbers the company publishes on its own site match the state registry: Andrew Brandt's Massachusetts construction supervisor licence CS-105633 is active, and the home improvement contractor registration 169746 is active in his name. BuildZoom independently confirmed the same registration. There is a permit trail behind that. BuildZoom counts twelve permitted projects and scores the company 98, above 84% of Massachusetts contractors on its scale. The permits themselves describe the kind of work the site advertises: an $85,000 kitchen-and-two-bathroom renovation with an added laundry in Malden, bathroom remodels in Cambridge, a concrete retaining wall repaired to a structural engineer's specification and cedar shingle re-siding in Somerville. What is missing is anyone's account of what it was like to hire him. No reviews appear on BuildZoom, and the one open-web reference — a May 2026 r/CambridgeMA thread — simply points to him as a Somerville general contractor who specializes in carpentry, with the website address attached. That is a pointer, not a testimonial, so no rating is stated here. The right fit is an owner of an older Somerville-area home who wants period detail repaired properly rather than replaced, and who is comfortable calling for references directly. The site publishes no phone number — contact runs through its form — so plan on emailing first, and ask for addresses of recent local work.