Nicholson Builders

Description of Work: Approx service date 5/28/13-mid-Nov, 2013. Actually began talking the previous November 2012. Approx cost, plus 8795.00 for roof. (Done by Tim Newman Roofing) Contracted amount: $110,802.87* After change orders due to owner requests for additional work, amount actually spent: $142,572.67** *We did not comparison shop and I'm sure that Nicholson is not the least expensive design/build firm we could have found, but we do feel that they quality of the work and the quality of the people who came into our home to do the work were exemplary and we do not regret paying more for this positive renovation experience. **Amount actually spent does not include several hundred dollars spent for miscellaneous materials we purchased at hardware stores, etc, for a few specific lights, drywall supplies, paint, etc. Our goal was to add a full bath to our upstairs by raising the roof up one floor over one small bedroom in the back of our 1947 Cape Cod style home and we wanted to add closet/storage space. We wanted the new bathroom to include toilet, sink, bathtub, and a separate shower to fit two people and we requested radiant heat under the bathroom floor and a pocket door and at least one window. After reading reviews about Nicholson Builders in Angie's List and seeing their signs in front of homes around town, late in 2012, we contacted them by phone and met with Brian Stone, CR and later Amy Statler, interior designer, over the next few months to discuss what we'd like to have done. There was an initial cost to have designs drawn up which would be paid towards the contracted job, or we would just end up with the designs. Included in the contract amount, the cost was $4,000. In our initial planning discussions with Brian, we also asked about adding two dormers to add light and a little space into our attic area which we use as the master bedroom. After seeing a couple of designs, we decided to forego the gable dormers and instead to add a long shed dormer to increase usable space by about 21' along the front length of the house and added about 5' wide more usable space within the existing footprint of the attic room by approximately 7' or so, in height. The new dormer was also going to add a lot of light as it would included six new windows where none existed before. Not as pretty from the outside of the house but roomier inside. With Amy, we perused a local Ferguson's to select bathroom fixtures and Hamilton-Parker for bathroom tiles. She was interested in what we wanted and did everything to give us what we wanted. This was frustrating as the homeowner because here, again, no exact prices were given as materials were ordered by Nicholson, so costs were not shared. There was no existing heat going to the top floor so we were also going to have the heat vented up to the top floor as well. Our plans included carpeting the bedroom and stairs, also at our expense. Brian, Amy, Dave Haugh, the manager of all their in-house contractors, and an architect came to look at the existing house to identify potential problems/issues that would likely come up and to make sure the project was doable. This was the first time my husband and I have done anything like this and when we saw the contract Nicholson had drawn up, it broke up the contract into the number of specific materials needed for the job, by area, but did not break down any individual items by cost. This was disconcerting to say the least, as we might have made some different finishing decisions based upon cost of some of the materials selected. However, the quality of what we received was excellent and there was little or no waste in their calculations. My husband saved some money on this job by doing the inside demolition of the bedroom by himself and also by doing all of the drywall work himself, as well. Nicholson folks were a little nervous about letting the owner do the drywall, but he did an excellent job (although somewhat slower). Nicholson supplied the appropriate drywall for the job. The contract laid the responsibility for staining and painting and flooring and roofing on us as additional costs. I would have liked it if Nicholson had included the painting/staining within the contract. As it was they ended up recommending the painter we used. We signed a contract in March 2013 and waited until one of Nicholson's internal contractors was available to run our job. Aaron Webb was assigned to manage our job. We were notified that Aaron and his crew would begin just after the Memorial Day weekend, 2013. The workday was to start at 8 am, Monday through Friday. We set the starting time of the work schedule. The estimated schedule to complete the job was 16 weeks. We added several additional jobs as the renovation was happening. The work was actually completed in mid-November, 2013. It actually took about 24-25 weeks to complete. We filled three dumpsters, which lived in our driveway throughout this renovation. Two were contracted and we paid $255 towards the third dumpster. We already knew that during this renovation we'd have to get the house re-roofed and the roofer (Tim Newman Roofing from Sunbury, OH), who we had already contracted with, later worked in cooperation with Aaron's schedule to roof the house. This company also did an excellent job. The new roofs we added were too shallow for shingles, so we ended up roofing the dormer in metal and part of the roof over the bathroom in rubber. Roofing cost was separate from the amount stated above, $8795. See our review for Tim Newman Roofing. Aaron Webb came in and to keep the dust to a minimum, he put up zip plastic doors at entries to the stairs and rolls of floor protection materials were supplied and laid down where workmen needed to walk. He placed a combination lockbox on our garage with a key to our home for the workmen to use when we weren't at home. Our garage became a storage space for incoming materials throughout the entire renovation. We had contact information to reach Aaron and we made ourselves available to him during the week as questions always came up during this process. And the workmen always put down protective layers to newly installed materials during the renovation. Aaron brought in his framing crew of Johnnie, Jeff, and Kevin, who gradually opened two huge holes in our roof and worked under huge tarps during an extremely wet and rainy June to frame in our new bathroom, dormer, and a closet. They made sure that no water came into the house through the tarps. They did an excellent job tying in the new structure to the old. They added a new vertical metal support and a new heavier beam that ran along the center of the roof to support the new additions to the house. There was only one day where wet weather prevented them from working on the job. The work crew was friendly and hard-working. This was the case for everyone who came through the house to work. Extra costs here: rotted rafters: $75. Adding a knee wall at stairs: $300. Leveling sub-floor in one area: $450. Labor charges were calculated at $55/hour. All of the workmen kept the work area spotlessly clean as they worked and when they left for the day the area was always clean and neat. Aaron was responsible to make sure everything was up to Worthington's building code and took care of permits and inspections as construction was taking place. The order of things may be a little inexact. As walls opened up, we decided to add both central air at $3392 and heat to the entire house. We also decided to replace our old furnace with a new more efficient one at $6494 and to add a new 50-gallon water heater at $975. Johnny, Jeff, and Aaron took the chimney down level to the floor as the only item to vent through the chimney was to be the hot water heater, so a new smaller pipe would later go up through the new roof. Added cost $1200 to take down the chimney plus $75 to fill in flooring behind the chimney. New roof was installed in July. After the roof was installed, Steve, another Nicholson gentleman, installed the metal trim around the roof, around windows, put on new gutters around complete house at $585, and as it ended up, we asked him to complete the window trim and facia all around the exterior of the house. Additional cost $2775. Aaron brought in his sub-contracted crews of plumbers, electricians, and HVAC folks. They plumbed the new bathroom fixtures, wired outlets and lights, and put in the new furnace and ventilation ducts. All did excellent work. There was some accidental stepping through ceilings before permanent flooring went down that happened but Aaron brought in Freddie (a master ceiling guy!) who fixed the ceilings perfectly and no one was hurt. No extra charge. Just a comment about other ceilings in the house- with all of the banging and movement from the construction and the roofing, some cracks are evident in ceilings below the work area, on the first floor and elsewhere on the second floor that did not exist prior to construction. We, the homeowners, are going to have to fix these ceilings on our own. Once framing was complete, six casement windows were installed through Pella plus two windows were installed in the new bathroom. We upgraded windows a bit so we paid a little more for that than the contracted amount, $1508. One casement window was sticky and Aaron ended up fixing the problem window. At some point, a stone guy came to the house to measure to cut quartz that was to go in several areas in the bathroom. The first stone we selected became back-ordered, and in order to not hold up the entire job, a second stone was selected from Modlich in Columbus at $362 more, even though at the time I was told there was no difference in cost. A second person came from Modlich to measure and mis-measured several of the first pieces of top a custom sink and to become a deck around the tub, so they had to be re-measured and recut. The second cut pieces fit perfectly.

Description of Work: extended kitchen, installed a couple of new cabinets to match old ones, replaced tile floor with a new wood floor.

Description of Work: Put new roof over front porch and rebuilt screened porch.

Description of Work: Overhauled powder room. Painted shutters. Removed carpet and finished wood double staircase.

Description of Work: I have used Nicholson Builders for outdoor lighting. I have used them for larger projects as well.

Description of Work: Nicholson Builders remodeled a back porch into an all season Breakfast nook off of the kitchen. We now can enjoy the brick courtyard patio from this room and enjoy nature with a cup of coffee! Nicholson Builders was the best choice we ever made when looking for a great company for restoration to keep the house as original as possible. GREAT, GREAT COMPANY AND FANTASTIC STAFF!!!! Will use them for all future projects, why look elsewhere, when you already have the BEST!! All are true craftsman. We are "NEWBIES" to restoration and remodeling. This is why we chose Nicholson Builders, nothing but PRAISE: on their quality, knowledge of work ethics, craftsmanship, patience with our lack of visualization (guiding us through each step of the remodel) Anticipating what is best for the project before we even realize something we missed, they anticipate possible problems before they occur and give us options which way we want to proceed. We are still using them at this time to complete other improvements to the house.

Description of Work: I got a proposal from Nicholson Builders for a house renovation. It was to extend the house.

Description of Work: We are getting ready to go into a fairly large remodel for our house and reached out to both design/build firms and designers and general contractors. I called Nicholson for their design/build service and received an immediate return call from Brian Stone. Based on our schedules, he came out for the in-house consult on 8/15.

Description of Work: Redid full bathroom and moved it. Renovated room to bedroom. Relocated ventilation duct, patio foundation repaired and above grade work.

Description of Work: Repaired wood frame of windows.

Description of Work: Requested that the provider supply a price / bid for a home remodeling project based upon drawings prepared by an local Architect. The provider said that they would prepare the bid for the project at a cost of approximately $1,500. We have completed several home remodeling projects in the past and have never had to pay for the privilege of finding out how much the work would cost.

Description of Work: My daughter was remodeling her laundry room and the flooring was in very bad shape. Layers of linoleum were nailed together with mold between the flooring and boards. She tried her hand at removing some of it and it was extremely difficult. I told her that Nicholson's was highly regarded on Angie's List so she called and they came out and removed the flooring down to the subfloor. They took all the mess with them.

Description of Work: Repaired water damage to the front wall and sub-floor of our home involving removal of damaged elements and repair of rim board, sub-floor, framing, lap siding, cedar trim, soffit, minor electrical, house wrap, insulation, drywall, roofing, flashing, down spout, and stucco repair.

Description of Work: They checked our property for evidence of skunks in the crawl space because we had recently had a strong smell of skunk inside our house but not outside.

Description of Work: Removed 6 existing windows and installed 6 new Marvin windows. Installed new interior trim woodwork around each window. Retrofitted existing wood shutters on one window.

Description of Work: Remodeled bathroom, closet remodeled, crown molding, handyman work, and trim replacement.

Description of Work: We are trying to get a proposal from Nicholson Builders. They've given us a bid for remodeling our kitchen and bathroom.

Description of Work: Bryan helped us through the entire process of selection, ordering and installation of new window sashes.

Description of Work: We used Nicholson Builders for an estimate on our drainage installation.

Description of Work: Removal of exterior wall, steps, patio and changes to the roof of the porch. Initial estimate was $45,000 - $55,000 and once the deposit was paid the cost rose to around $100,000.

Description of Work: It has been ten years since I have used them for finishing off the basement.

Description of Work: They were here seven or eight days. They removed all the carpeting and put down laminate wood flooring.

Description of Work: I had rotted floor boards in my kitchen near my dishwasher and before I could have new flooring installed I needed to have the rotted wood replaced.

Description of Work: Nicholson Builders reconfigured the inside of my kitchen island by building two inserts. One insert had horizontal shelves and one insert had vertical shelves.

Description of Work: Received a quote