J E LINDSTROM CONSTRUCTION INC

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It was incredibly awesome. He is coming back to fix some more stuff for us. What we liked was his professionalism and his demeanor. We liked his ability to listen to what we wanted and to materialize what we envisioned. We liked his prices and the speed at which he worked. He was flexible in dealing with changes to both things that were foreseen and unforeseen, that happened once the house was opened up. Then we had some changes we had asked for once the project began and every other homeowner does that to a contractor. He was extremely reasonable in his pricing. He had some good design inputs when we didn’t know what we wanted it to look like, so he was able to guide us there. There are some details in the finished work that were purely his ideas because he has done houses and he knows how to finish it and he was able to give us that expertise. If I had to do the construction all over again, I would hire him in a minute, and I wouldn’t change a thing. I can’t think of a higher praise for a contractor than to say that. It wasn’t a completely smooth process, once the house was opened up we had some major foundation work that needed to be done additionally, and that wasn’t his fault, it was just legitimately unexpected. It was a sixty-year-old house and many things in it were subpar so he had to replace those in order to meet the code. So he rolled with the punches, he found some ways to insulate in a cheap but effective and he saved me a ton of money and he got my house insulated for the first time in sixty years. It is a summer cottage that my grandfather built, so we got it insulated from the outside instead of the inside-out, I had some ideas and he listened to them and told me that those were good ideas but he had better ideas, which it was and cheaper too, so we went with it. I liked the fact that he suggested it because it saved time, it saved money, it was easier for him and it was easier for me. So he wasn’t out to spend my money, he was out to give me the house that I wanted, and I got that. There were something that he went out of his way; like while doing the demolition, he saved some of the interior, sixty-year old knotty-pine boards so they could be used in finish work downstairs so that the newer rooms had the same knotty pine feel to it as the older rooms had. So he took the time to recycle materials where it was going to make a difference in how the end product was going to look, even though that took a little more time and cost a little more money. That wasn’t my request but we agreed to do that knowing that it was going to cost us a little more at one point in order to get us a better end result at another point. So he had a good overall vision of where we wanted to go and where I was willing to spend a little bit more to get where I wanted to go but yet he found cost effective ways of doing that. He did not waste any money or time in recycling the things either. He did everything he could to give me a gorgeous product that I wanted.

Jim did a great job with all aspects of this exterior renovation. He and his crew were professional and neat. We were motivated to get the siding done after a bee infestation through holes in the old cedar shake. We chose full replacement windows to get more window space. The place looks great from the outside, and we have far less drafts inside now. Jim also replaced the front patio, and installed stonework over the old brick. We're very pleased.