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Woodworks Custom Homes is a Wellesley renovation and custom home builder that describes itself as a family-run firm led by Gil Mendes, and its customers describe big gut renovations. A June 2024 reviewer had a kitchen and two and a half bathrooms gutted and rebuilt with project manager Jonatas and said the company added recessed lighting that was not in the contract, and an April 2023 customer used Gil's team for a full gut renovation in Newton and new floors in a Boston condo. It holds 4.3 stars from 16 Google ratings and an A+ BBB grade. A February 2026 reviewer described a costly outcome: Gil did a complete renovation of the home they bought in 2020, including new electrical, HVAC and plumbing, and they had since spent thousands of dollars correcting bad electrical, HVAC and plumbing work. They said Gil would not take responsibility or cover any of the cost, even after a contractor he recommended said the original HVAC install was poor.
Gil did a complete reno of the home we purchased in 2020. New electric, HVAC, plumbing, everything. We have since spent thousands of dollars correcting bad electrical, HVAC, and plumbing. We tried for quite some time to get Gil to take some accountability but with no success. Even one of the contractors he suggested and uses stated how poorly the original HVAC install was and Gil still wouldn't cover any of the cost to fix the subpar initial install. Gil was nice to work with but the work itself ended up being quite poor and unfortunately and he simply has not accepted any responsibility for the poor quality of work.
Nicest group of people you’ll ever meet. Gil has an A + team.
Woodworks was transparent and very clear about the scope of work and pricing (very reasonable), and went above and beyond, doing things for us that weren't included in the contract (such as installing recessed lighting as a courtesy, where we hadn't thought about doing it) and the contractors were all respectful of our space. We are so happy to have found the people we will go to for our future projects from here on out! Thank you, Woodworks, for helping us get our dream home!
We had a pretty big project: gut renovation of our kitchen and 2.5 bathrooms. Jonatas, the project manager, is an absolute dream to work with: professional, communicative, present, detail-oriented, and committed to seeing things through even when the inevitable hiccups arise, such as vendor delays that are outside Woodworks' or our control. Woodworks was transparent and very clear about the scope of work and pricing (very reasonable), and went above and beyond, doing things for us that weren't included in the contract (such as installing recessed lighting as a courtesy, where we hadn't thought about doing it) and the contractors were all respectful of our space. We are so happy to have found the people we will go to for our future projects from here on out! Thank you, Woodworks, for helping us get our dream home!
I was extremely pleased with the addition work that was done on my home.
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Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from Woodworks Custom Homes. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
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$23,000 – $35,000
Typical remodeling project around $29,000
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Ownership
Certified attributes are verified against the public registry. Others are the business's own statement.
Full remodels4.6
Repeat clients across 5+ years4.4
Custom home building4.2
Bathroom renovations3.4
Project communication3.8
