Sonic Remodeling LLC

Sonic Remodeling is a Worcester outfit built around one thing above all: bathroom remodels that make a home usable for someone with mobility challenges. Owner Nicholas Rivarola and his crew show up again and again in reviews rebuilding bathrooms and adding ramps for wheelchair users, elderly parents and stroke survivors — the kind of work that shows up in review after review going back years. The company's Massachusetts home improvement contractor license is active and registry-verified, and its Better Business Bureau page carries an A+ grade for a business incorporated in 2016. Recent reviews continue the pattern: in a July 2026 review, a homeowner who'd watched the crew work a neighborhood job over time finally got a tour and confirmed the quality; another from the same week describes a handicap-accessible bathroom, a ramp and kitchen cabinets all done well. Several customers describe using Sonic for years — one couple calls Nicholas their contractor of choice for a decade, citing a recent deck-staining job; another says they've used the company for almost 20 years across multiple bathroom renovations in a circa-1920 farmhouse, describing his pricing as reasonable and his workmanship as consistently strong. Reviews also cite deck rebuilds, kitchen backsplashes, cabinetry, flooring and fencing work beyond the bathroom specialty. There are two real complaints worth knowing about. A detailed 2025 review on BuildZoom describes a handicap-accessible bathroom remodel where, nine months later, plumbing code issues were still uncorrected — the reviewer says a city inspector confirmed the fault was Sonic's and that follow-up calls and city repair orders were ignored. Separately, a 2022 Google review describes the company missing two scheduled quote appointments in a row without any notice, leaving an elderly parent waiting at home both times. Both stand out against an otherwise strongly positive file, and the plumbing complaint in particular — backed by a city inspector's finding, not just the customer's own account — is the kind of thing worth asking about directly before signing on for wet-area work. BuildZoom's own profile also lists an older Massachusetts HIC license, No. 186887, as inactive and describes it as having been cancelled at one point — separate from the current, active No. 194188. For accessibility-focused bathroom remodels this is a contractor with real, specific, years-deep praise behind it; the plumbing follow-up complaint is the one thing worth confirming has since been made right.