HARDESTY CONSULTING LLC

Another vote for Ryan! He has helped me with my remodeling projects since 2006. He is very professional, honest, and easy to work with. I do not hesitate to recommend him to my clients.

We were seeing some sinking of our concrete in the garage near the step an our front porch had sunk 5” & broke off completely. We weren’t sure where to begin with repairing & or replacing our existing concrete. We knew we needed advice from an engineer. We contacted Mr Hardesty , emailed him about the issues we were having & requested a service we thought we would need. After agreeing upon a date Mr Hardesty came out & inspected the garage, driveway, porch, step, basement & even checked out our patio out back. He gave us contacts for a few companies we could use to solve our issues & also found an issue in the basement we had no idea we even had. He ended up charging us for a lesser service as we did not need a written scope of work. He said once we got estimates for the work from the companies he would be willing to look over them to make sure we weren’t being over charged. So refreshing to find someone so knowledgeable, honest, kind, friendly & just an all around good person willing to help some hardworking people that were stuck not knowing where to go next.

Mr Hardesty is super competent and a pleasure to work with. Our home was 90 years old and required significant expertise. His plans were clear and comprehensive and he was generous with his advice and referrals. He was also patient explaining everything to my husband and I, even reviewed the photos of the contractors' works mid-project. Highly recommend.

Fantastic. Ryan was punctual, friendly and informative. He was able to schedule an on site evaluation on short notice and his evaluation of the property was thorough. He was willing to discuss and explain his findings and recommendations, and answer any questions I had. He provided same day, detailed documentation of his findings for our records. I would highly recommend his services if you have questions or concerns about your home.

Ryan is an excellent person to work with. Centennial, CO certified. Our job was big for us but small in the scope of builders/contractors and Ryan was able to help us throughout the process. Will use again.

It went very well. He provided a clear analysis of what was going on and how to fix it at no charge.

Ryan was wonderful. He fit us into his already busy schedule to fit our real estate time line and informed us of his finding right after visiting the house. He gave us alot of details on the home and I felt he went above and beyond what we needed and helped us in making the right decision for us to not purchase the home. He was wonderful and I will recommend him in the future.

Ryan is very friendly, professional, and knowledgeable. I have met with several structural engineers and found him to be the most credible. I have also met with quite a few contractors. My only knock on Ryan is he recommended work that no one else even came close to recommending being done. I found his judgment to be conservative and the contractors he recommended to be very expensive. Though some may view this as a good thing due to the nature of structural work, I found it to be a waste of time and money.

Ryan came out, spent about 20-30 minutes looking around, made a few recommendations which turned out to be totally off base and charged $250.00! Not only did he charge excessively, he said he would charge more to write up a report and I had to specifically request a receipt because the water entry issue has required legal action and we needed documentation that he came and what he recommended. This was a thoughtless, careless inspection that led us completely down the wrong path. Do not waste your money on this guy!

We had an issue with water entry into our basement and hired Ryan to investigate the cause. ?

It went really well. I had a lot of anxiety, obviously, over the basement flooding issue. he calmly walked me through the different problem areas of my house. I liked that he knew what he was doing and immediately noticed the landscape of not only my yard, but the neighboring yards, and how that could cause problems. Then he showed me some possible solutions that gave us a lot of piece of mind, and a plan of attack.

Super cool, super prompt, super smart. I thought that my job would be too small for anyone to bother with but Ryan was very professional and promptly provided the technical information I needed. Would definitely recommend this business.

The company didn't need to come out to help us, he was able to tell us our problem from the phone. He had knowledge of the house structure and what type of soil it was built on, then proceeded to inform us that our problem was typical of the area and recommended a company that does foundation work if we felt the need to pursue this any further.

Our home inspector had some concerns about structural issues on a 100+ year old house we were considering buying so we brought Hardesty Consulting in to take a look. It wasn't just that we got confirmation of the issues, but Ryan took detail measurements and so we had solid data to take to the sellers. Bottom line is that we saved a lot of money!

HE DECIDED I NEEDED SUPPORT FOR LONG EXPANSES IN MY ROOF STUCTURAL. HE CHECKED THE STABILITY AND EVENESS OF THE CEILINGS AND FLOORS AND DETERMINED THAT SOME ADDITIONAL SUPPORT WAS NECESSARY IN THE BASEMENT. ALL IN ALL THERE WERE THINGS TO FIX BUT MOST OF THE STRUCTURE WAS IN GOOD SHAPE.

Very friendly and professional. Spent significant time on the project. A thorough explanation of the problem, issues involved and recommended corrections was given. Followed-up in a few days with a very professional structural drawing showing the details of the recommended correction. (However, no text write-up or report was provided that could have summarized the verbal explanation given during the visit.) Also, freely gave his views on our questions about other structural issues in the home, without additional cost.

The inspection of a home revealed we had torsional buckling of a suicide beam in the house we were purchasing. Ryan was able to come out the day of the inspection to give us an evaluation of what would be required to fix the problem, and gave us peace of mind about buying the property. He also warned of another problem he thought we would find but we couldn't inspect as it was behind a wall. The previous owners had their engineer (I suspect it was their father) give me a report a couple hours before inspection resolution saying there was no problem and they did not need to fix it. I relayed that report to Ryan on a weekend late at night and replied before the deadline with a rebuttal of their claims and a further recommendation of work to be done. The sellers paid for the repairs Ryan recommended. After buying the house, we disasembled the wall Ryan suggested we look behind and sure enough there was a problem support behind that wall too. Ryan provided an engineering drawing the work, and although it arrived later than he said it would, but it was over new years eve and the plan was received in time to get the permit to do the work. The company Ryan recommended complete the work did the additional (and relatively minor) work at no charge after they called Ryan for instructions the day of they did the fix of the suicide beam. Overall I was very happy with his services. I think he charged me less than he should have/could have. His drawing was much more professional and convincing than the seller's engineer. I hope to never need an engineer again, but if I do I plan to call Hardesty again!

Ryan used his equipment to evaluate the level of my floors and ceilings. He determined I need additional support in my roof joists. He recommended a person who was familiar with this type of work. I was very satisfied with the explanation that Ryan provided.

This is the second time we've used Ryan Hardesty and were once again extremely pleased. We had some concerns about our hardwood living room floor bowing and some double-pane window seals in a bay window that no longer worked. We also showed him some wall cracks in a few places. He was able to determine that the floor problem was not with the foundation as we had dreaded, but with the way our basement had been refinished. The drywall was pushing up on a beam, which is what was causing our floor to bow. As for the windows, he determined the problem was our front porch, which had sunk a bit. The roof was no longer level. He provided suggestions and recommendations for basement and porch repairs, which we are in the process of implementing. He reassured us our house was in great shape from a foundation point of view, that our wall cracks were minor and no big deal. Had we not known about Ryan's services, we likely would have called one of those foundation companies and paid a lot of money repairing a problem we didn't have. He spent about 1 1/2 hours with us and didn't seem rushed at all. Ryan is very highly recommended. He's friendly, professional, pragmatic and extremely helpful. He offered to write a report for us but said we didn't really need one, which saved us some money. He is worth every penny and then some.

The engineering skills are excellent, and the designs were very detailed. The MAJOR problem was his consistently late responses to questions, missed target dates, and delayed our tightly scheduled project. They knew the time issues, but complained of too many clients to be responsive. So, good firm if you have no serious time constraints, or you have a bigger stick than I did.

Ryan showed up on short notice and on time. He was quick, precise and very knowledgeable and shared everything he knew with me. He saved me a ton of time and headache that would have resulted had I not had him consult first. Money well spent. He will be the first one I call or recommend to another needing this type of services. I was so impressed I went out of my way to recommend him to a general contractor that I was considering to handle a 203K loan project for me.

Ryan Hardesty did a thorough evaluation, explained his analysis in detail, answered all of my husband's questions, and then called me at work to re-explain and go over his analysis and answer my questions. Ryan also suggested some contractors to call to fix the few problems he noted. He came on the day we had scheduled (two weeks out from our call), just a few minutes beyond the time we set. Ryan was very pleasant, appeared knowledgeable, explained things well, nice guy, very easy to deal with and understand.

Not well. Mr. Hardesty did not write anything down, he did not inspect portions of the structure that needed repair (no ladder), and he spent less than an hour at the property. In addition, even though I have a technical background, I felt like Ryan was using engineering jargon for "intellectual bullying" in an attempt to confuse me and the realtor and to justify his fee. The icing on the cake was his insistence on an extra $200 for a written report. For $350, he could have spent an hour (or less) composing an email summarizing his findings. As it turned out, the contractor that we hired had their own engineer who actually did what Ryan was supposed to do, and anyway would not have used drawings or schematics from somebody else.

Excellent experience. Ryan was meticulous and comprehensive in his inspection. He took his time and spent all the time I needed during his explanations of what was going on and my probable repair options. He gave me the option of a simple verbal report (for a smaller fee) or a detailed written report. I chose the latter so I'd have the information I needed when I spoke with contractors. Ryan provided the report via e-mail the next day and recommended a contractor.

We were very pleased with Ryan. He arrived on time and was very thorough and professional. He offered us practical solutions that would solve our problem while not necessitating removing carpet or putting holes in the family room floor. We thought the price was very reasonable, and would have been lower had we not opted for a written report.