Tim Lea Builders

This company is very professional. Punctual. They are willing to go the extra mile to get the job done right.

Awful professional.

We contacted him to installed three interior doors. We told him the job was small and he replied he would installed a wall shelf if someone asked him. He came out, looked at the doors we wanted installed and where we wanted them placed. He gave us a quote, asked if we wanted him to paint them and scheduled March 27, 2014 to do the job, about 9 a.m. My wife stayed home that day and he never called or showed up. If he did not want the job, he could have called.

Tim Lea is an excellent builder. His vision of the garage and location was exactly what I was anticipating. The secondary garage was built to house yard equipment and a tool shop, while the upstairs is an art studio. The garage is stylized with a peak on each of the sides creating a unique look that matches well with our home. Tim made sure to build the garage a little off from the house and to the back so it would create an excellent patio area on the lower level outside of our walkout basement. He also built the first floor of the garage to be nearly level with the first level of our home, which allowed him to build the deck with a connecting walkway over to the second story of the garage. He then added the staircase from the entry point of the second story of the garage down to the patio area. It's a very nice, enclosed, and private area for entertaining friends and family. He quoted the work as a range, with low and high depending on what types of materials we used. He managed to find us a good deal on the trek material used for the deck, and he matched the siding and trim work of the garage to match our home. He completed the second floor with insulation, drywall, and finished it off. I had requested the first floor remain unfinished as it's a tool shop, but he did place insulation around the foundation to help keep the lower level warmer. Tim did contract out the electrical, which also turned out fine. The only issue we had was that the job started in October, but did not finish until Feb. or March of the following year. We weren't in a rush, but I had witnessed many times the guy Tim was using to build the majority of the garage was doing nothing. He would show up very late, take long lunches, leave early, and spend much of the time he was here either on his phone or sitting around the garage. It became apparent he was bilking Tim on hours. Whenever Tim came out on site and did work, we would always be amazed at how much got accomplished . Towards the end Tim started mentioning that the job was costing more than he anticipated. We had to tell him about his guy and how we didn't think he was working all the hours he might have been billing him. Tim said he suspected that and had already let him go. He didn't charge us any extra, which we were thankful for, but felt bad he wasn't watching his guy more closely to know what was happening. Tim also gave us a great deal on patio bricks, which we used when we had our landscaping done. We would definitely use him again in the future, and I'm sure he will watch his guys more closely moving forward. He's a great guy; Very friendly, and always looking for the extra wow he can give the customer. We do need to contact him as a couple of the siding pieces his guy installed are falling, and we have no way of getting them back into place.

He did it while we were gone. I hired him to do the work and we left on vacation and when we came back, it was all done. My wife and I had met him before. He gave us an estimate on doing some counter work and his estimate was more than what we wanted to pay so we ended up doing it ourselves but we liked him. When we needed to get this other work done, we talked to him. He told us that he does it all; he does everything. He put the fence up for a couple grand, the shed is a 12 ft by 16 ft, two story shed so he painted that for $500.00. He removed the old driveway and put the new concrete and did the decorative side for about $8,000.00. Builders don't usually do the work themselves, they have others who do the work for them. Tim has a crew that does some things themselves and some things he jobs out. The fence came out flawless. Everybody was very pleased about the fence. My wife had staked out some ferns that she didn't want trampled down when they put the fence in and they did a good job about avoiding those. There were a couple of issues with the painting on the shed but as soon as I brought it to Tim's attention, he took care of it and made it look excellent. The concrete work that he did was superb but I would say that he had initially said that they would plant grass seed and restore the yard to the way it was before they started. Part of it was my problem because we had someone stay at the house while we were gone and we asked her to do some watering and my neighbors tell me that she didn't really do it daily like she was supposed to and the grass didn't grow. I told Tim that I was disappointed and he took care of it.