Rahmann Contracting

Everything went extremely well, and the result has been great: front basement area is dry even with heavy rain!

Mohamed was a pleasure to work with as well as his team. They were professional and very good at their craft. They also were tidy and neat at the end of everyday and at the end of the job. I highly recommend Rahmann Construction. Ellen

Another thorough, professional job from Rahmann Contracting. The job turned out great and looks wonderful. We first hired Rahmann Contracting in 2015. Since that time, their jobs here have included repointing and repainting our four-story brick townhouse façade, windows, doors, and ironwork. They removed, repainted and re-mounted the exterior wood shutters on three floors. They also excavated and replaced a long drain pipe in our back yard and resurfaced the whole yard with bluestone and a granite perimeter curb. They repointed and waterproofed our cellar stone walls, and did additional waterproofing and support work on the foundation walls. Structural support of the cellar columns was also required. The company’s workers are friendly and professional and work to a high standard. Always active supervision and frequent on-site management by Mohammed Hye. He aims to please. We always trust Rahmann.

They do very good work, are reliable and very good at problem solving.

A pleasure to work with! The crew was respectful and thoughtful. They finished the job on time, and they worked with us to get the project done how we wanted it.

Great! Mr. Hye is great to work with. Very professional and kind. His guys did great work, going above and beyond to make sure our steps came out looking brand new. This is the second time I have hired them and I was very pleased both times.

I have been a satisfied customer of Rahmann Contracting for several years. Mohammed Hye and his team have done multiple projects on my two story brick row house in Greenpoint, Brooklyn including paint removal and re-pointing the brick on the front of my house, repairing and restoring its 19th century wooden soffit and brownstone window lintels and most recently installing a new roof, leader and gutter. His crews are skilled, respectful of the property and always leave the worksite neat and clean. The best endorsement for any contractor is calling them back whenever work is needed. Rahmann Contracting is always my first call. I recommend them highly.

High quality work- very good communication and fair pricing. Pleasure working with Rahmann!

Considering that this job was conducted under very adverse conditions (90 degree plus weather, one hurricane, and another torrential, flash flood downpour) it went surprisingly well. There were a few kinks that had to be worked out, but which always resulted in an amicable solution. Mohammed Hye was exceptionally responsive to any complaints. We were amazed that he answered all phone calls, emails, and texts in an incredibly timely fashion. His crew showed up every single day at exactly 8 AM for the entire 3 weeks of the job. All the workers were diligent. They displayed an incredible work ethic under, at times, dire weather conditions. Two week prior to this job, they had completed a three day masonry repair on the facade of the brownstone. Also excellent work.

Mohammed's team did an amazing job with waterproofing the walls in our condo building. They were quick, polite, efficient, and always on time. Mohammed was always available via email or phone when needed. Recommend!

Rahmann Contracting did a great job in the end. There were some bumps and hiccups at first, but some of that was our own fault or tied to the fact that our brownstone needed more work than we first realized. They were fair and professional. Where they truly excelled was all the finishing work -- the brownstone, the brick repointing, the woodwork, and the painting. Antonio was a true hero on all of that.

We first hired Rahmann Contracting five years ago, to repoint and repaint our four-story townhouse façade, windows, doors and ironwork, front and back. They did a professional job (with hanging scaffolding). Five years later, it still looks great. After that job, we asked them to excavate and replace a long drain pipe in our back yard and resurface the yard with bluestone and a granite perimeter curb. Once again, the job turned out great and looks wonderful. This year we needed our stone cellar walls repointed and waterproofed, with additional waterproofing and support on the foundation walls. Structural support of the cellar columns was also required. Again, a thorough, professional job. Rahmann also did interior site preparation in connection with our recent installation of new furnace/air-conditioning units. We also had them remove, repaint and re-mount the exterior shutters on three floors and do additional exterior painting. This job has just been completed. We find all the company’s workers to be friendly and professional. They work to a high standard and there is always active supervision and frequent on-site management by Mohammed Hye. He aims to please. We would definitely hire Rahmann again.

Everything went really well. Mohammed was extremely responsive and reasonable with respect to work and fees. He was also very accommodating with special requests. I would recommend them and hire them again. Our cornice came out beautifully!

Great! Rahmann did excellent work in a timely manner. They didn't rush the project when substrate needed time to cure. Their price was the best and the workmanship was solid. it is still holding up well 5 years later.

The owner Mohammed and his people were always responsive, professional and polite - never unnecessarily argumentative. When small mistakes were made and/or misunderstandings occurred they were always quickly addressed and remedied. The entire project took over a year, and there was never an odd moment or stalemare during that period - which sets this company apart from most contractors I’ve worked wih over the past 25 years in NYC.

It was quickly done and requests for additional work promptly completed. A job well done.

They were very good, I had leaky windows and they came in a caulked them for me. They did what had to be done. I still had a little issue and they came back and took care of it the next day.

The owner of Rahmann Contracting, Mohammed Hye, gave me a fair cost and time estimate to do the work on my house. His workers were always prompt, professional and respectful of our neighbors. Clean up was thorough everyday. The work was completed on budget and on schedule. I would highly recommend Rahmann Contracting for work on your home.

Everyone who worked on the project was courteous and respectful. Mohammed, the contractor, was very responsive when I texted or emailed him with questions about the job. One worker in particular, Franklin, went above and beyond by saving my basement from flooding with sewage (completely unrelated to the project) and also saved me from having to call roto-rooter. That guy deserves a medal of honor, he actually put a glove on and reached his entire arm into my sewer main to unblock it, saving me a few hundred bucks (i tipped him for this.) The bluestone installation is flawless, the stones look great, and are well graded to send water away from the foundation of the building. This was tricky considering the placement of my basement windows, which allowed for no leeway. They included at no extra cost a soak away drain in the middle to prevent flooding as well as some cobble stones to surround the front hedge. The crown restoration and paint job also came out fantastic. two corbels were missing from my cornice and they had some fabricated to match. You would almost never know they were not original. The stoop overall came out pretty well. I'm very happy with the steps, and the color. The sidewalls are close but not perfect. I think they did not measure 100% accurately from my neighbors stoop so the angle of the slanted side walls does not match the angle of the steps. It is about 3 or 4 inches taller at the bottom and looks a little odd from certain angles. I didn't quite notice it at first until i was looking closely, so maybe I am the only one who will know that it is off, but I am the one who has to live with it. Also the workers were trying to eyeball some semi-round cuts in the walls above each step. This looked terrible and there's no way they would have ever gotten it right, despite their assuring me they would. I had to cut out a form myself from cardboard for them to make each curve the same (I drew a curve in photoshop, printed it out and traced it onto the cardboard for them, then cut it carefully with an exacto knife.) I find it very surprising that I had to suggest this technique to them as though they really had not thought of this. These guys' English was not the best, so sometimes i felt it was difficult to communicate with them. The other problem was with the granite curb installation. We had spoken, prior to installing it, that the threshold of the curb, where the gate to my fence goes, would be centered to the stoop. Somehow this did not happen, even though it was discussed specifically. The threshold was measured wrong, and so it is off center to the stoop by several inches. Again, maybe I am the only one who will notice this, but I must live with it. Finally, after the workers came back a last time to clean up the work area, somehow the granite curb became stained black. Nobody was able to give me an explanation as to what made this staining appear, nor did the workers want to accept responsibility. This was frustrating because i had paid extra for the granite as opposed to a concrete curb, for it to look nice. And the stains make it look 30 years old instead. It's my hope that over time this will fade, and I think since i first noticed it, it has faded a little. I would still recommend this contractor, because i think the positives outweigh the negatives, though the mis-measuring of the sidewalls and the threshold are troubling. It goes to show that you really need to keep an eye on people, even if they have the best intentions. I would only see the work in the daylight each morning on my way out the door to work, and would return at night after dark, so it was difficult to make sure every detail was perfect as the work was being done. Overall however, I now have a beautiful front yard and stoop and cornice, so I am happy. They are good people and Mohammed was good at communicating.

Rahmann is the best contractor I have ever worked with. I own 3 homes and have had lots and lots of contractors do work for me over 20 plus years but not one came close to Mohammed and his incredible team. They 1. were lovely to work with, 2. came on time exactly when they said they would, 3. allowed me to take a "break" for a week without complaint, 3. did excellent excellent work on an historic home (that had a lot of "funky" stuff going on), 4. were smart about the inevitable stuff that always pops up on a complicated, multifaceted job, and accomplished it all without any complaint or short-cuts, and 5. were very reasonably priced (I risk saying inexpensive but I intend to use them again and don't want this to go to their heads). Mohammed is an incredibly knowledgeable engineer and contractor, and his team, led by Kahn, were excellent in every way, too. And we had several other teams from Rahmann (names I will misspell so won't try to write out), who were equally excellent. Mohammed understood who would be best for each specific aspect of the job so he put the right guy on for each. (I stopped questioning him and trusted his expertise -which was the one smart thing I did besides hiring Rahmann in the first place). But his entire crew are simply wonderful, each and everyone of them. Really. They came inside to retrieve things and use the restroom, and were so respectful of our home, inside and out, as they worked. It was truly remarkable. They had a young man, Jered (not sure I got the spelling right) who did a terrific job on the site keeping it constantly clean, running to get stuff that was needed, making sure all doors were closed when work was going on, respectfully finding me when approvals were needed, etc.etc. This is a really useful position and you should insist on paying Rahmann to have a runner! This is your ideal contractor. I have only praise and gratefulness for their skills, their professionalism, their respect for our home and our specificity in the outcome, and their great sense of humor, too, which works wonders when things get dicey with an old house. You would be lucky to have Rahmann work for you. Very lucky. ("Do" Use them, "Don't NOT use them")

Workers did a good job and were responsive to changes on the job as needed. The owner of the business is very nice and easy to communicate with. Set the work hours ahead of time.

They workers kept the place clean, arrived on time, were courteous and helpful. The job was completed without interruption. The company responded to requests for refinement of details after the work was completed. The supervisor was available.

I had water leak issues and could not exactly pinpoint the exact source. I met with many contracts and a couple theorized that it was coming through the chimney and some thought it could be seeping from the back wall, which I needed to be addressed sooner of later and the leak just accelerated the decision to restucco. I did extensive research on what is techinically stucco and what are the options and pros and cons. I had various quotes and Rahmann was neither the cheapest or most expensive. They run a responsive office and the project manager there speaks good english. Often times, the biggest challege with stucco/waterproofing contractors is the language barrier. The language part offers a more consulting-like bonus to the hiring choice. Their chief stucco person is hands on and very good. The project was completed satisfactorily. My general compliant center around one of their employee, who litterally spat on premise and generally exhibited other unhygenic habits. This was relayed to the project manager. They also should have used scaffolding instead of a cradle/suspending platform. Free standing scaffold allows a cleaner/more symmetric surface finish whereas the hook of the suspending scaffold created a patch-like finish where the hooks attached to the house. It also crumpled my gutter. The work would have yielded a better review otherwise.

I decided to use the other guy who gave me a firm estimate for the entire job.

I called twice to get in touch with someone last week. The receptionist/scheduler was very nice. We were able to set up an appointment for an estimate- which was for today at 8am. I was told they would call to let me know that they were on the way. No call. No contractor showed up. I tried to call this morning and no one answered the phone.