SPACES

The service is a little slow trying to get the contractors here to do the work. Other than that the service and employees are great.

We are not very far into the process. They are coming to measure this week and then we will meet with them to hear their ideas.

The person I worked with at SPACES was very nice but they failed to execute and took a lot of time in failing to execute. The contract for the work was signed on March 8th and I put down $400 for the work. My request to was fix the structure of the porch and that appearance was secondary. The sketches were fine so I said, and quot;looks goodand quot; as I wanted to have the porch completed before fall and my neighborhood isn't fancy. The person I worked with contacted me March 22nd by e-mail saying, and quot;I am waiting for the engineer drawings and report and then can jump into design.and quot;. We met May 17th to discuss details of the porch. At that time, we discussed paint color (but nothing was seen from the engineer or structure). She continued to assure me that they would take care of everything and get me specific details for the project execution. We met again on June 21st. She brought in rough computer sketches (it looked like something I could have done on google sketchup) and samples of different materials for the porch along with a contract for the work at $50,000. At this time, I said I needed to see the Engineer's assessment and I needed to see very specific details to understand the work. These are all items that I have not been shown to date. I honestly doubt that those items were done. She said the majority of the cost breakdown was for materials. SPACES finally sent me a materials quote from a lumber store (dated 7/22 - after the $50,000 contract meeting) showing materials at $16,000. I never did receive materials requirements from the engineer (I can redesign a porch but wanted a structural assessment and an engineer to determine what was needed for the structure). After about 3 weeks of going back and forth and the multiple times I had already taken off of work to meet, it was just easier to cut my losses, pay the rest of the contract fee and move on. I have since contacted other people and they are unable to use anything that was generated by SPACES. The person I worked with was very nice and if your main focus is color and style and do not have a timeline, you may have a better experience than mine. If you care about work being done and not just an art project, I would NOT recommend SPACES.