Drake Home Improvement

Description of Work: I made three separate appointments with them to give me an estimate for siding repair. They were a no show for each one, without even a phone call to say they were unable to make it. When I called to ask why they never showed I got a 'something came up' excuse. They obviously have no need of any new clients. Wouldn't use them if they paid me.

Description of Work: Jamie Drake came toour house because our fire alarm was going off and since it's electric we couldn't figure out how to stop it. He showed us where the battery was located and changed it. He didn't even charge us. We will keep his card and use him again for repairs.

Description of Work: Replaced rotted fascia board along the roofline and cleaned out debris behind it.

Description of Work: They installed pull down attic access in the small hallway of our 1922 home. This involved climbing through a tiny access panel, hole, that was already in our bathroom ceiling, cutting through almost 100 year old ceiling boards and rafters, which were very thick, framing the new hold, installing the pull down stairs, and adding trim to match the existing trim work in the house. They also had to move the smoke detector we thought was battery operated, but that they discovered was wired to the rest of the smoke detectors in the house, we had no idea!. They had to do some creative framing since our house has settled and is not level anywhere. They also had to do most of the work with flash lights since we asked them to remove the only light in the hallway, and all the doors to rooms with light were closed so that they wouldn't get the other rooms dirty. They even met my husband at a large home improvement store when he went to buy plywood for the attic floor, and brought the plywood back in their truck because he couldn't fit it in his station wagon like we had planned. We really feel like we got fantastic service for the price. We did end up paying more than the estimated price, but Jamie was clear up front that there may be additional cost if we ran into anything unexpected, which we knew would happen in such an old house. With the amount of extra work that had to be done though, I feel that the extra charge was very reasonable, if not kind of low.