OLDE MOHAWK HISTORIC PRESERVATION

Paid Ward deposit so he could purchase the Snow Rails, he never installed them. BEWARE of paying him any FUNDS.

He wasted my time.

He and his crew took off all the brick and re-cemented the chimney and then put on a brick veneer. After two years, the bricks began to fall off the chimney, which posed a great danger to my family and our neighbors.. He returned and replaced them. Two years later, they began falling down at an alarming rate. I contacted him again and he promised to return and correct the problem. "We stand by our work" was a quote from his email. He never returned the rest of my calls and emails and I had to have someone repair the mess he had left me with, which cost about $5000. I have since learned that he has left the area and moved to somewhere around Boston. Beware, he is not at all a reputable or honorable business man.

After waiting a week for the quote, I emailed him for the estimate and got no response. I then called a week later and spoke with a person in the office who said I would receive a quote by email shortly. I never received another word. The experience set me back at least two weeks on my project. This outfit was found to unreliable.

They were fitting my relatively small repair job into a busy schedule of bigger jobs, so it took several contacts over a period of about a month to actually get the job set up. That was the only negative part of the experience. They were able to come 2 days earlier than the date we had actually set, and completely the work quickly. While they were here they did a full inspection of the roof and replaced a bunch of slates in other parts of the roof that had slipped or broken. These guys know their slate!

Although expensive, we hired Olde Mohawk to replace our roof because of our housing inspector's recommendation. Ward Hamilton's crew seemed to do a good job on the roof, but after they left and our check was cashed, water came into our house--for the first time since we've owned it--at the first rain fall. It took close to 2 weeks--and a second rain--before we were able to diagnose the problem (materials that got caught in our roof drain when Olde Mohawk was doing the work). The water that came into the house damaged drywall ceilings in two bathrooms and ruined a light fixture. Since the drain clog was removed, Olde Mohawk representatives have not answered our calls or responded to our emails. And only after we took them to the Better Business Bureau did they offer $200 in reimbursement--far less than we've already spent. Finally, several contractors who've examined our roof drain since the work was completed have informed us that the pvc pipe Olde Mohawk inserted in the drain (in an attempt to address the problem before we knew the cause) appears to be improper.

They were really nice. We have had a lot of heavy rain in that area and there is no leak. I asked them to fix the rubber roof and I never heard back from them.

It took several attempts to get in touch with the owner, Ward Hamilton. He was very nice. He said he was too busy to do the work but offered to send one of his crew members that does work on the weekends. They showed up the following weekend and did the work. My only complaint is that they left a lot of slate shards on the roof that covers a first story porch.