Hughes Masonry

Exceptional craftsmanship. Period. Special thank you to Billy Hughes and his team for a great job. Ivan

excellant work in a timely fashion. masons and bricklayer were skilled and did excellant work . mr hughes was on site and working a majority of the time. excellant job for the price.

Billy came by to do an estimate at the time he said, promptly got us an estimate, and completed the work the day after we signed a contract. The work performed is excellent and everything was cleaned up well. Happy customer. We will have him back to do work on our brick patio in the future.

It went badly. He didn't have the necessary general contractors license so we cancelled the contract. But by then he had already spent the money. It was only a few days after we gave him the retainer. We reached an agreement where he could pay us back $8000 over time, and keep $2000 for the time he had already spent preparing for the job, but only if he paid us the rest back in a timely fashion. He paid back $6500 in a few months, but then payments stopped coming. At this point its about a year and I haven't gotten a payment since early in 2015. I did contact him to tell him if he didn't complete the payments I would consider that he did not keep up his part of the bargain and so he would need to pay us back in full including the $2000 I told him he could keep if he paid us in a timely fashion. At this point he owes us $3500. I gave him ample warning that time was running out. Hence this review.

As with the other reviews, the final work is fantastic and that's the most important element. Billy and his crew were friendly and very professional. He didn't always come when he said he would, but I think that's true with a lot of small contractors. Overall, we are very happy with the work and plan to hire him again for our next project.

see previous

I hired Billy to repair some cracks in the brick facade of my house, He did excellent work; the brick and mortar matched and the job looked seamless. The GC said that he would recommend Billy to do the ceramic tile on the bathroom floors, too, so I asked him for an estimate; the amount seemed reasonable so I agreed. That was in early to mid April. His men came and tore out the existing floor. Replacement of the existing tub and vanities required coordination between the mason and the plumber. My original date to move was April 25, but I had to reschedule because Billy had still not replaced the tile floor. My final move date was Tues, April 30. By the Friday before, Billy had still not shown up to do the work. I told the GC that if I had to stay in a motel because there were no functional bathrooms, the amount was coming out of Billy's check. That roused Billy enough that he had his guy put down tile, and he came out on the Sunday before and put in grout in the area where the toilets were to go so that the toilets could be placed. He says he is overbooked, and apologized. He finally got all the grout in, coming again on a Sunday afternoon after not showing up all week. There is still ceramic baseboard to be placed. He came this morning, looked at the bathrooms, said he had to go get his guys started on another job, and vanished for the rest of the day. This has been dragging on for over a month now. I had planned to have him build me a brick back step, but as soon as he finishes the baseboard, I'm done with him.