Done Rite Construction

Started OK, the first thing was, of course, the demolition and they did that well enough. They did the framing OK too. The drywall looks good, although nothing is plumb. However, I had to tell them to install boxes for the electrical connections in the attic. The tiling was awful, the roll in shower that they installed did not drain correctly, water pooled in the corner.I asked them when the inspection was, and they said "what inspection? We don't have to have a permit for this kind of work." Tiles started coming up in the rest of the bathroom immediately. We called in an electrical contractor to do some additional work, and I asked him to check the connections while he was up there, and he was horrified at the fact that there were connections with just wire nuts, and the boxes that had been installed were done improperly. Also, the electic line run for the dryer was improperly installed. We had him repair the deficiencies. Then the plumbing under the sink FELL OFF. I thought, OK, I can live with the poor tile job as long as it is functional...I figured when I recovered from my shoulder surgery that I would fix the ones on the bathroom floor myself. We really did not want these people back in our home because when we tried to get them to repair the problems the owner tried to intimidate my handicapped husband, and refused to come re-do the work if he wasn't going to be paid for it. The intimidation factor was the only reason he got the final payment from my husband. Then in March, I noticed what I thought was soap on the floor of the shower, but it wouldn't come off. While trying to clean it, I noticed that is wasn't soap at all, but the grout had been pushed up from below, and the adhesive was oozing up between the tiles. After I had hysterics I started calling around and found a flooring contractor to come fix our problem. Come to find out, the tile had been affixed using mastic, which is not used for any kind of tile near water. Upon tearing out the shoddy work our new contractor found that the shower enclosure had been leaking already, the toilet plumbing was not properly installed (it too fell apart- there was no glue on the plastic pipe), and there was a bare wire connection with only a wire nut, in the crawl space inches from where the shower was already leaking. The connections from the water lines to the shower heads were covered in fist sized wads of epoxy in an attempt to keep them from leaking. In all honesty, I don't believe these guys started out to screw this up so badly, but they were in WAY over their heads. You shouldn't be contracting for work you don't know how to do. At the end the owner was very angry and as I said, intimidated my handicapped husband into giving him the final payment, which is just outrageous.

When the cabinet installers started to install the cabinets, they found the ceiling was not leveled. They worked around that, when Ray Jones said it was not his job to level the ceiling. The drywall was installed properly, but the taping was not done properly, when the ceiling was painted, the taping showed. He told me sometimes that happens, he sent in another person to tape, this man done a good job. The rooms were not sealed off when the ceiling tile and sanding was done. I had to clean every inch of the house, when the 2nd taping was done he sealed off the rooms but some did get into the other room, that meant cleaning the house again, floor, shelves, etc. Putting up the new trim in the kitchen, they didn't know how to cope, also they didn't complete installing the trim, I had to hire someone else to tear down the trim and replace it. They were never on time, if they said 8 it could be 10 or the next day.