Building And Restorations

I contacted Jim after my original contractor cancelled the job after I had already ordered all of my cabinets from Home Depot. Jim promptly got into my condo, looked at the job, and gave me an estimate ASAP. I hired him without ever meeting him based on my phone conversations with him. Jim even took the time to go to HD and meet with the kitchen design people to go over my project and get drawings before starting work. Jim started the project on the exact day it was to start, demo'd my existing kitchen, took delivery of all of the cabinets, installed all of the new cabinets, counter tops, and tile. He even had a professional electrician come in to double check the electrical work was done correctly. As I live in California, Jim emailed me pictures and kept me updated every day. Everything came out beautiful and professional. Jim even did a few extras that he saw needed doing in the condo. Also, he was super about suggesting changes and additions that made the project come out even nicer than I had expected. Oh, and the job was finished ON TIME!! which is a huge bonus, especially on Maui with so many flakey contractors. I was able to get my new renters in on time. I am definitely having Jim do more work in the future and highly recommend him. Do not take the advice of the one negative review since the person never worked with Jim. He is very professional and knows what he is doing. I do not blame him for not taking on the other project that gave him a bad review. Deirdre L.

I contacted Jim after my original contractor cancelled the job after I had already ordered all of my cabinets from Home Depot. Jim promptly got into my condo, looked at the job, and gave me an estimate ASAP. I hired him without ever meeting him based on my phone conversations with him. Jim even took the time to go to HD and meet with the kitchen design people to go over my project and get drawings before starting work. Jim started the project on the exact day it was to start, demo'd my existing kitchen, took delivery of all of the cabinets, installed all of the new cabinets, counter tops, and tile. He even had a professional electrician come in to double check the electrical work was done correctly. As I live in California, Jim emailed me pictures and kept me updated every day. Everything came out beautiful and professional. Jim even did a few extras that he saw needed doing in the condo. Also, he was super about suggesting changes and additions that made the project come out even nicer than I had expected. Oh, and the job was finished ON TIME!! which is a huge bonus, especially on Maui with so many flakey contractors. I was able to get my new renters in on time. I am definitely having Jim do more work in the future and highly recommend him. Do not take the advice of the one negative review since the person never worked with Jim. He is very professional and knows what he is doing. I do not blame him for not taking on the other project that gave him a bad review. Deirdre L.

I bought a stripped out (only toilets remained) deeply soiled repo condo in Kihei that needed a complete remodeling, while I live on the mainalnd. I needed someone trustworthy. I gave him a set of keys and my trust. Jim Yaple acted as my general contractor & local agent superving some contract work (installing bamboo flooring and supervising painters) while he rebuilt and tiled the lanai (it sloped the wrong way), solved some wiring problems (for instance, a loose wire in one GFI outlet box that affected an outlet in another room that did NOT EVEN share a common wall) installed a new dishwasher, built a new over stove cabinet for a larger microwave and custom cabinets and shelving int two bathrooms, etc.. To save me money he even resurfaced and painted wood trim so I did not have to replace pieces that were already proven correctly "cut to fit". He was relible responsible and efficient. A year later when friends were using the condo and the kitchen sink faucet suddenly needed repair, he fixed it that evening for our guests convenience and my relief.

sad case here, had two people come over to do an estimate, until this point i had run into 6 con artist who thought they were going to take me for a ride on my project, this guy came over first, couldn't help but notice he had no paper or pen, we discussed all that had to be done and afterwards he didn't seem to want to leave, i wanted him out before the other handyman came but 30 minutes after we were done talking he was still there, then he got a phone call came to him then he gave me the phone so that i could talk to the caller, the caller told me of the great work this guy did for him and how he would use him again, well at least i knew why he was sticking around for so long after we had already discussed what needed to be done.i asked him if he wanted me to mail him the list of items and he said yes but he had a problem with his email so would i send it to his wifes email address, fine but when i gothome i told my neighbor i would bet 100 dollars to my neighbors one dollar that i would never hear from this guy, well seven weeks went by when i finally called him, he said he never got the email, i said thats strange because i sent it to the exact address he gave me, i told him i never got the email back so i know it was delivered, he then said he wasn't interested in work that was being farmed out to different handymen, i reminded him that other than the plumbing issue which i trusted to no one other than a plumber, the work was going to be done by just one person, this didn't go oiver well with me as until this point i had talked to at least 6 handymen and in every case they were nothing but con artist, once they know your living on the main land the price goes up, in many cases these guys aren't even handymen buy guys out of work who call themselves handymen.getting back to this guy, i told him if he didn't want the work it wasn't a problem but to give me a b s story about not getting my email was about as unprofessional as it gets, i have no doubt that he knew he wasn't going to do the work when he left my place but instead, and if you deal with a lot of these handymen, you will get the "didn't get your phone message or didn't get your email" line, after living in las vegas for a couple of years i thought i had seen the scam capitol of the world, i can tell you vegas has nothing on maui, the people i have run into will promise you anything, that is until a better ot more expensive project come along, the advise is free, if your thinking of buying for purposes of living or renting in the home, you really need to be able to fix your own place, i just hired someone who has recommendations but if this doesn't work out i will bring my friend who is a handyman in california and fly him to maui to do the work, the island needs the work but when you run into the people i have you say forget maui's economy and by friends over and get the work done

as above converted a shellinto a luxury home without any headaches when we arrived from the mainland, he had prepared two oveflowing plates of island delicasies that fed us for days. He is also arranging service on the 10 yr old jeep he found fo us - we love it.