We feel that we fell for their “family” line, when we hired this company for our home remodeling project. Now we, a family with two young children, have no drywall on our walls, we have temporary walls up in the middle of our living space, nails sticking out everywhere, and holes in the floor. The contract was signed Tuesday March 28th. The removal of our walls and erection of the temporary walls started Wednesday May 3rd. The company quit the job May 4th. Prior to this, no blue print was created, which resulted in a wall being left out of the job and estimate. Initially we were given a final bill including a change order with around a 58% markup(contract specifies 15% for change orders), an invoice added on multiple times, and a site management fee of $85 per hour(per the bureau of labor statistics the mean hourly wage for construction managers is $47.84). Luckily at this point we were checking over everything, so we caught it. The site manager was not on site when work commenced on the plumbing, electrical(though did show up after work was completed to meet the carpenter for the first and only time), or when the carpenter actually started work. We have offered to settle by paying the higher end national average wage for the site manager, who also happens to be the contractors son, just to get our project back on track and our home back to normal, but have been denied and called stupid. We are now being threatened with a lien on our home. We would definitely not recommend this company.
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