Bowsher Construction

Never performed work. Calls and emails were ignored.

They were a little busy. They knew what they were doing and the price was good. I would use them again.

could not find the time to have them come out to do the work.

I purchased a $99 for 3 Hours of Kitchen or Bathroom Caulking and Grout Restoration, via Angie's Deals. However, after purchase the vendor became unresponsive. I've been trying to schedule a time for them to perform the service, but haven't heard anything from them since October. After reading more recent reviews it seems, the vendor may no longer be affiliated with Angie's List. Even it that's the case, one with think they'd have the professional courtesy to follow up with a potential client. Beware!

With regret, this became an example of the dangers of using an Angie's List contact. The vendor seems to be unreachable / no longer affiliated with AL. After making several attempts to reach the vendor via phone, email & AL mail system over the course of six weeks, I contacted Angie's List directly. I am no longer covered under the AL refund policy (interesting - I am unable to find the limitations / terms of purchase) and now am expected to apply the credit towards another vendor. I am disappointed by the lack of correspondence from Angie's List regarding this exchange. My conversation (Nov.) with Member Services suggested I would be able to apply the monies spent towards another vendor. No directions or suggestions as to how to do this have been received.

The painters had what seemed to be an argument in my bedroom. Apparently, the conflict was that they were overbooked and one wanted to do a thorough job and the other was concerned with time because of all the appointments they had. I being a former contractor understand the delimma from both the business owners point of view and the painter's struggles. I had made sure that they could help moving the heavier furniture around and it being a tight space slowed them down. To me creating a great working relationship matters most and the owner should be concerned with adequate time given for the promised work. I had to hire someone else to do the touch ups I could not do with the injuries I had at the time. I do appreciate the communication skills one of the painters had in helping understand their quandry. I hope this review will help with the development of better priorities of the company and appreciation of its employes.

They are the worst among all the service that I had through Angie's list. My fellow members in Angie's list, avoid them as much as possible. Rather, find one reliable and honest handyman who has responsibility and work ethic on the job they do. These people are not. I purchased them through Angie's list with the deal of 6 hour handyman's job for $250. When I sent them my to-do-list, they said it is more than 2 person's job and they would do so for another $250. However, it turns out that this was not a bargain at all. The way works in this company is the boss, who posts the ad in Angie's list, collects $50 and the rest of $200 goes to their handyman who takes the job. To be honest, $200 is a prevailing market rate for a typical handyman, so what I got was not a deal a t all. Even worse, the two people who came to my house were complete slackers. It was very obvious from their attitude from the beginning that they did not have any feeling of responsibility (knowing that they would not come back again ever). They basically slacked off most of the day until 6 hours passed. Among things in my to-do-list, they avoid to do anything that is serious and ended up picking very simple things such as taping the basement windows with plastics for insulation. One simple thing that I had asked as to replace a shower head and this guy was such a slacker doing such a sloppy job, that he broke one part while installing the shower head. Then he told me that the new shower head that I had purchased was defective. Can you imagine a handyman who cannot even change the shower head? I also had purchased some blinds to install, and these guys said it is technically impossible to install them as the blinds were not compatible with my window frames. I believed them, but then I hired another handyman for something else, and he immediately installed them without any issue. Finally, I had them to replace a kitchen sink, and it started to leak a few days later. The worse part was that they requested to be paid in advance even before starting the work, saying that they had a lot of customers who refuse to pay. I was naive and paid them in advance, but at the end of the day, I just felt like I through away $500 for nothing. I tried to complain by sending out messages through Angie's list, but they never responded back. I am actually thinking of submitting a claim against Angie's list to get at least half of the money ($250) back. If you need a handyman, rather use handyman-nj.man. I recently used them and these guys do a good job and do not request for payment in advance. Any good and responsible handyman will do the job first and then send out invoice to you and that's what the guy (Sean) from handyman-nj.com did. Again, don't use Bowsher construction as you will pay its boss just for posting ads, and then the work will be done by his sub-contractors who do not have motivation to return to your house again if anything breaks or not done properly.

The provider took several weeks to get back to me regarding scheduling. We finally scheduled a day and time and I had to take off time from work to be there. The provider never showed up on that day and was unavailable either via phone or email. I finally received a response days later saying that there was a scheduling issue. I attempted to reschedule with the provider and never received a response. This was a terrible waste of my time.

It took us awhile to get a hold of them but when they did contact us they were direct and honest. We werent able to use the deal because they advised us they were not honoring the deal at all due to their relations with Angie's List.

They did a good job, but were unable to get everything I wanted done in the time done. All that was basically done was the doors being hung up. None of the holes for the knobs were cut, I had to do them myself.

Molding is crooked where joined in one spot. Screw heads are visible even after caulking.

REBUTTAL TO COMPANY RESPONSE: Paragraph 1 "dining room 12x13 ft" - it is much smaller 8x10 "she chose much cheaper option"- Michael, my telephone and email contact at the company, was told by me what exactly what needed to be done. If this Angie's List deal was not appropriate for this molding and pointing job, I should have be informed of this. "she was told we would be cutting it close"- I was told no such thing. As a matter of fact , Lloyd and his partner were working at a leisurely rate. "she did not have the proper equipment"- I emailed Michael specifically before scheduling the job to inquire as to what I needed to buy for the installation of the molding and the pointing of the mortar. I bought exactly what he told me to buy. There was no mention of tools I needed to have on hand for the project. THIS IS ALL WRITTEN IN THE EMAILS BETWEEN MICHAEL AND MYSELF. Paragraph 2 "homeowner is responsible to provide all materials and equipment such as compressing nail gun etc. "- I was not told to provide the tools. If you refer to the emails between Michael and myself you will see exactly what I was told to provide. "she bought nails that could not hold up the molding" - I bought the finishing nails that Michael told me to purchase according to the specifications of my molding. I bought the specifications to the hardware store and the employee of the store provided me with the correct size given the thickness of the molding. These finishing nails are specifically made for molding so that once installed, thy are virtually invisible. Lloyd , the handyman refused to use them. Instead he used larger screws that he insisted would not be seen once caulked and painted. "we gave her the option of going back to Home Depot and getting longer nails" - no such option was given to me Paragraph 4 "150 ft of molding" - it was a small room that needed approximately 56 feet of molding. I can supply the purchase order for the molding if necessary "screws were still showing"- they were showing because molding requires finishing. I brought up my concern about the screws showing even after they were caulk and was told by Lloyd that once I painted the molding they wouldn't be seen. Paragraph 5 "she notified us 2 days later that she wasn't satisfied" - it took me that long to paint the molding with 2 coats of paint to see if the screws would become less visible. They did not. Paragraph 7 "would come back to rectify even though we didn't have to". - who doesn't stand behind their work? Of course a business is expected to correct a problem. Paragraph 8 "cheaper, irrational, uneducated"- it is outrageous that a business would imply these terms when referring to a customer.

They were great. They replaced a broken shower head, bedroom door knobs, and a broken kitchen tile. They also replaced the hinges on my kitchen cabinets so that they would close properly, and re hung a medicine cabinet so that the door closed properly. They will be coming back to finish the grout on the tile, and I also will be calling them to sand down several bedroom doors so that they close properly. Lloyd was knowledgeable and helpful, taking the time to explain to me that my current doors were with fixing, rather than replacing. He also told me what supplies I needed to get and exactly where to get them, pointing out that I should get a non-locking door knob for my young daughter's room, so she would not accidentally lock herself in. They were punctual, neat, well spoken, clear, and helpful. I would highly recommend them and would use them again in the future.

I'd like to preface this by saying that no work was performed, so this is not a reflection or review of the work they ACTUALLY do. With that said, I called and asked if they could give me an estimate for a 4 level brownstone renovation. He had no problems going to the location (I could not make it, since I live in NY and couldn't get to NJ early in the day). His response time was excellent. I called and left a message and he called back pretty much immediately. I explained the work that needed to be done and asked if he could go to the location without me. He agreed and was able to go the next day, which was great! Unfortunately, the quote he gave me was waaaaaayyyy off base. He told me the work with everything included would be 200k. When I pushed back, he then back tracked and said it could probably be done for 100k depending on the finishes. My problem with this is if I were a novice, I'd probably believe him and pay his initial inflated fee and wouldn't think to question it. One minute it's 200k and the next it's 100k???? That left a bad taste in my mouth. Because of that reason, I was reluctant to use them for any project.

They contacted me right away to let me know I was out of their service area.

Hassle free. Couldn't ask for more.

We entered into a contract with Bowsher Homes to refresh our 2 bed, 2 bath unit in Jersey City for our new tenants. Since we are not very familiar with the area, we used Angie?s list to find a licensed, experienced anddependable contractor from the area to complete the refresh in the 2.5 weeks we had available between tenants. When Lloyd from Bowsher first visited our unit to discuss the work required, we were very impressed by his attention to detail. He seemed to understand what we needed to get the apartment tenant ready, and evenoffered to fix some items like sticky glue left behind on the refrigerator, dirty marks behind the washer/dryer etc. free of cost. He said a team of 2 people would take 3-4 days to complete all the tasks, and gave us an estimate of $2500 for the work. In the end neither was the painting job satisfactory, nor were the additional little items that he initially promised to address completed. I travel out of town for work every week, and my partner cannot leave work before 6pm being an hourly employee. So it was very difficult for us to visit and monitor the progress during the week. My partner did a walkthrough of the job done after work. There was no sunlight at this point, and everything seemed fine. Based on this walkthrough, he paid the balance and gave them an A on Angie?s List. There were some minor things to be done which Lloyd promised to get done. We trusted him to finish the job and clean up the apartment when leaving. Sadly none of that happened. When our tenants went into the apartment on a sunny Friday morning, they were shocked to see the quality of the work. So here goes the good and the bad: GOOD The grouting and staining of the master bath was done very well and with lot of attention. We wish we could say the same about the rest. BAD 1. Paint job ? Our apartment was already in good shape except for normal wear and tear, and some crayon marks from the previous tenants? children. The ceilings and most doors were in great shape. The Bowsher paint job was really messy and left parts of the unit in worse shape than when we started ? brush strokes in different directions, no uniform and smooth finish, gradation in the color level, spattering, unfilled holes and nicks etc. Despite charging us for two coats of paint, many parts of the walls looked like touch ups. Though we specifically agreed not to paint the doors, some of the door edges and frames were painted with some glossy white paint leaving the doors looking really bad. Honestly they did a job that would be adequate for an apartment in a housing project, not in a premium building like ours, and definitely not worth the price we paid. 2. Punctuality - When Lloyd returned to review the issues we had with the job, he showed up almost an hour later than scheduled. My partner and our tenant had to request to leave early from work to be there. I was traveling for work, and took an early flight to be there. However, he showed up at his own sweet time with no apologies. Finally while leaving, he had the audacity to say that he would rather be home with his family! As if our time and schedules meant nothing. It also seemed that he wanted to get there as the sun was setting, so that the imperfections wouldn?t be visible as had originally happened during the walkthrough. 3. Cleaniness ? Bowsher?s team completely messed up our apartment. Our departing tenants had professionally cleaned the apartment after they moved out, and the place was completely clean when we handed the keys to the Bowsher team to begin work. They used our custom made kitchen island to store their work material. After staining and grouting the master bath, the faucets, tiles and flooring were left with the brown stains. The kitchen sink was also left really dirty. The worst is that they got paint onto our bamboo floors as part of painting the trim, and didn?t bother cleaning it up. 4. Professionalism and customer service ? When we sent pictures of the issues, the initial response from the owner Michael was that none of this was there when we left. They left a huge purple blotch in the entryway trim unpainted. After looking at the picture of the blotch, the owner Michael said that it was a piece of tape, instead of taking ownership for the oversight. When Lloyd came in, he was almost yelling at the top of his voice all along, being very condescending and unhelpful. He would not let us get any words in, and never gave us any good reasons for the paint color gradation, unpatched holes, visible crayon marks etc. The worst part was his trying to steer the attention away from their shoddy paint job by telling our tenants what we didn?t pay for. All we were trying to find out was why they didn?t do perfectly the job they were actually paid for. After yelling non-productively for a good hour-ish, he walked away. Since then neither Lloyd nor the owner Michael have made any attempt to reach out to us and fix the problems they created. 5. Value for money ? We paid $2500 for the whole job which is a pretty penny considering the apartment was already in pretty good shape. Lloyd kept trying to make excuses for their shoddy work by saying we paid a very low price. We got estimates in the same price range from other contractors?things unfortunately did not work out with them due to our timelines. In the end we hired another contractor for less than half the price to clean up Bowsher?s mess. And Lloyd wanted another $500 for properly painting our doors that they ruined in the first place! We tried our best to pay them more money and get the job satisfactorily completed. But with all Lloyd's yelling and denials, it became clear to us that with any amount of money, the Bowsher folk will probably never care to do the job to your satisfaction. It seems Bowsher Homes? philosophy is that they will work a predetermined set of hours for the money you pay them. Those hours are determined by them based on the work you ask them to do. Once the hours are up, they don?t care if you are happy with the job, or if the job is complete. Quality, attention to detail and customer delight are definitely not their priority. If you want to spend a lot of money, lose your peace of mind and get shoddy service with a nasty attitude, Bowsher Homes is the right choice for you.

I recently bought a home and needed the living room and recreation room painted. I also needed sheet rock put up to divide my laundry room from the other part of the basement. Bowsher provided professional service. The painting was perfectly done and in a timely manner as was the the division of the room.I would strongly recommend.

First met Myron and Lloyd on a simple painting job in my hallway, they were on time, completed the work efficiently and within quoted price. I spoke within Myron and Lloyd regarding additional things needed in my home and they were very knowledgeable and helpful in their advice. I was very happy with service provided so when it came time to perform the additional larger projects I contacted Lloyd first. Renovation was wonderful and completed within a tight time frame. The contractors ( Myron and Lloyd ) completely demo'd my 20 x15ft living room taking out the old paneling and drop ceiling down to the studs and reconstructed it with Sheetrock. They installed laminate flooring I had purchased as well as new ceiling , the crown and base moldings as well as building the casings (surround) for the windows) The living room looks terrific !! And most importantly my wife loves it ! We are so happy with work they have already begun the renovation of my bathroom, Will be using them on any future projects we have . Very pleased A+ service do not hesitate to hire these guys. Thank you !!

It went pretty well. I think the price was reasonable and the quality was adequate. Scheduling could have been better though -- they were very late and I almost completely missed them.

We have heard about Angie's List for years. We finally joined in May of this year. One of the first emails that i received was a "Big Deal" for a painter for 40 hours at a cost of $999. Sounded too good to be true. I have a very small house and wanted the exterior painted. I was contacted by Michael of Bowsher Construction in Hoboken, NJ. Numerous emails were sent back and forth between Michael and myself. He told me what kind of paint to buy, how much to buy, what the deal would entail - prep work, sanding etc. He send an email telling me he had some time the week before our scheduled paint date, but I was not available. I told him I wanted to keep it July 7, 2014 and he said - fine! see you then! He never came on July 7 so I called Angie's list and was told the company was removed from the list at the end of June. What kind of company takes your money, cancels the company scheduled to do the work, and does not contact the customer? I had to call to get that information. I was also told that Angie's list would find another reputable painter to honor the big deal. Then I got an email from Angie's list telling me they found a painter with "more value" to the deal. However it was $500 more! For the same paint job! What an insult! I am now sitting with $300 worth of paint in my living room. I did receive an apology for recommending the new painter and the cost and was told they were trying to find someone to honor this deal, but I'm not comfortable with this. How do I know that they won't complete the job in 40 hours just so they can make up the difference in price with extra hours? The entire experience has been a nightmare! I feel like it was a bait and switch! Right now I would not recommend Angie's list to an enemy! Please refund my $999. Thank you!

I was first contacted by the company after I purchased the deal ( in April) & was asked to provide a telephone number so that a date could be set up. I did. No one called me , so ( in June ) I called them & spoke with someone who stated that he was one of the painters that would be doing the job & it could be arrainged for the following week. I even stated that I would pay extra for the remaining wallpaper to be removed in one of the rooms. I was told that someone would call me to set up the day & time. Again, no one called me, so after another week of waiting, I decided to cancel my purchase. Needless to say I am very disappointed.

The experience was not good. The big deal was supposed to be for the whole day. They came at 9:15, and I told them to move the truck, and an hour later, they came back and said they had to go to Home Depot to get something. I had told them to paint the ceiling in my stairwell, so they had to go for another roller. They are painters and so they should have the rollers, and if they would have told me, I had an extra roller. They were gone for an hour. I told them what I wanted, and I told them that the stairwell was primary because I can't do it, and if they had the time, they could do the walls. I told them the whole day that I could do the walls. They did 2 coats on the walls, one coat on the stairwell, and the stairwell is not smooth, there is a different coloration at the top and the bottom. I wrote to them, and told them to come and make that right, and one guy called me back, and said that they did the walls and it wasn't their fault. I told them that I had told them not to do the walls, they said that I would have to pay them to come back and do the painting. I told them that I was willing to pay them $100, and not a lot. Then I got another message, that they would come after their business day, and so it would not be at regular time, and they wouldn't be able to make it until the end of May. We are in June, and they haven't called me back. When I look at my walls, there are a bunch of things they haven't painted. They did paint some of my flat wall, but that was not my primary concern. They have not come back to me. I had been very upfront about what I was asking even before they got here. They said that the big deal was not full day, because they needed their lunch breaks, and other breaks, and travel time up to there, and they could not leave later than 4pm, because of the travel time. It was not a happy experience. The pricing was good, if they would have done what they were supposed to. They weren't wearing any identifying badging or shirts or nothing, their truck did not have any company logo on it, there was nothing professional.

The provider was supposed to put sheetrock in my house to 1st and 2nd floors and to the attic, making it paint ready. The duration of this job was supposed to be 2 weeks. It has been 6 weeks and the job is still not complete. He finally finished the first two floors after many fixes and arguments but the attic space is still undone. I paid him 90% of the amount he quoted. If you work with him do not bother to call him because he never answers phone calls. His voicemail is full and he does not erase his messages on purpose so people cannot leave messages. The only way to reach him is via text message. He responds when he feels like it. After 6 weeks of super slow work my sheetrock job is still not complete. I cannot wait for him to show up for work any more. He goes to other jobs and ignores this one and the work never gets done. He always tells me he will be done in 3 days and the work load stays the same. I trusted this person based on his reviews at Angie's List. In fact, that's how I learned about his services and hired him. (He had a special sheetrock promotion which I bought for $89) I think what has happened after this promo, is that he started getting a lot of jobs and wanted to fulfill them all but he could not coordinate his time so he started falling short on completing some big jobs like mine, leaving customers like me stranded. Of course I made the mistake by paying him majority of the amount he quoted. So probably in his mind, he is done with it. Who knows? When he shows up, he shows up after 9:00 pm which is late for a construction professional. He and his work partner are pleasant people but they seem to be not very efficient with their time. When I met him, I had really liked his attitude towards the job and to the customer. His quote was reasonable and he had A rating at Angie's List. That's why I decided to hire him. (By the way, I learned not to trust the rating on your website after this terrible experience. I don't think I will ever hire anyone for a big job using your website!) I was planning to move to my place on May 30th but because of him I am not able to. Now I have to find cash to pay one more month of rent. Who will reimburse me for that? I have an infant. I cannot bring her into a house filled with sheetrock dust. The place is in unlivable condition for a baby. Why should my baby pay the price of his mistakes? I am very upset. Thanks to this contractor I have no kitchen and no bathroom in my house because I lost 4 weeks of crucial renovation time that cannot be put into dollars and cents. I had to reschedule the delivery of my appliances and the other contractor's job that will come after his part. So the entire project's end date shifted to some time in June (maybe July) I wanted him to come to the house, take his stuff and return my keys but he did not answer my texts and phones for the entire day. Finally he texted me in the evening saying that he will return the key (which he did the next day) If I had any faith in this person, I'd let him continue the job but I lost all my trust to him because he keeps misleading me saying that the job will finish in a few days and he ends up going to other jobs and does not show up at my place, putting me in thousands of dollars of more debt.

The guys (Lloyd and Myron) would show up at 11:00 am at my place, go to HomeDepot for an hour to buy tools for the day (how insufficient is this company?), then go for a lunch break and work only a couple of hours day. They knew the building hours were from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm only. When we spoke to Michael, he and Lloyd promised to complete the work in the time defined by the contract. But then next day, they did not even show up and just went blank on us. I learnt later that they signed a big amount contract and so they did not care to even complete their prior commitments they made. So unprofessional. Finally after a couple of days, they came back and started kicking the can around. I threw them out later that day and got them black-listed in my building community. Unfortunately they did not realize we are architects and we know the means and methods for construction better than them. I have reported them to AGC-NJ for misrepresentation and non-performance of scope of work. Do yourself a favour and avoid them at any costs. They told us that they were looking for a perfect score in Angie's List. They may tell you the same. Don't buy into it.