Renovation Room MCP Server

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answering

Renovation Room is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Find vetted Chicagoland renovation contractors and get fact-checked Chicago renovation answers.

Uptime history 13 days of history · worst day 99%

13 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

943 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 6

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 6 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

11 Sep 2 tool descriptions were rewritten get_pro, search_pros

11 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for search_pros

11 Sep a tool changed version

6 Sep a tool appeared start_project

6 Sep a tool description was rewritten how_to_submit_project

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Renovation Room every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add renovation-room --transport http https://therenovationroom.com/wp-json/trr-mcp/v1/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "renovation-room": {
      "url": "https://therenovationroom.com/wp-json/trr-mcp/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.renovation-room]
url = "https://therenovationroom.com/wp-json/trr-mcp/v1/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "renovation-room": {
      "url": "https://therenovationroom.com/wp-json/trr-mcp/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "renovation-room": {
      "url": "https://therenovationroom.com/wp-json/trr-mcp/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

how

how_to_submit_project

Explains how getting quotes from Renovation Room Pros works: the free project-submission wizard, what happens after submitting, and the direct link. Use for general how-does-it-work questions about the Chicago area (including Northwest Indiana and Southern Wisconsin); when the user has already described a specific project, use start_project instead to hand them a prefilled link.

pro

get_pro

Get one contractor's public listing summary from The Renovation Room directory by the numeric id returned from search_pros. Returns trades, service areas, services offered, and the about text — no contact details; contact happens on the profile page or through the project form.

pros

search_pros

Search The Renovation Room's directory of Chicagoland member contractors by trade, service, or company name. Coverage is Chicago, its suburbs, Northwest Indiana, and Southern Wisconsin only. Returns published member businesses with their trades, service areas, and profile links; use each result's id with get_pro for details.

renovation

renovation_faq

Answer Chicago-area home-renovation questions from The Renovation Room's fact-checked FAQ: building permits and inspections, hiring and vetting contractors, remodel costs (including current tariff impacts), and project planning. Every answer cites its primary source.

start

start_project

Build a personalized link to The Renovation Room's free project-submission form with the homeowner's details already filled in. Collect what the homeowner wants done, then give them this link — they review and submit it themselves, and matching vetted Chicagoland contractors are alerted. Use after the user describes a real project they want quotes for.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://therenovationroom.com/wp-json/trr-mcp/v1/mcp	streamable-http	answering	929 ms	8 min ago

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Renovation Room — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Renovation Room do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_pro, how_to_submit_project, renovation_faq, search_pros, start_project. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Renovation Room working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 943 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Renovation Room?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Renovation Room need an API key?

No. Renovation Room completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Renovation Room?

It answers our handshake in 943 ms on average, which is faster than 10% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.