Evans Construction Svc

Really bad. Did not show up most of the time. Would not call. It was very aggravating trying to get him work and finish.

We had a few projects that needed to be completed, such as some siding repairs and rebuilding an outdoor deck staircase. I bought the big deal offered through Angie's List for a week of general contracting for $1,350. Communication with Brian was easy and responsive in the weeks after we bought the deal last fall, but I wasn't quite ready to start work on the projects yet due to some other funding issues, so I told him I'd get back in touch with him in a month or two. No problem. I tried calling Brian a few times in the spring and that is where the problems began. No response to my phone calls, so I emailed him back through Angies list. Almost a week later he finally calls and says he can stop by the next day, probably after lunch and that he'd call when he was on his way so I take the day off and wait for his call. Nothing! Call him several times in the afternoon and nothing! I've since had the projects completed by another contractor not on Angie's List. Unfortunately it's past the 30 day refund guarantee window so I can't get my $1,350 back, but I guess I'll just chalk it up to an expensive lesson. If you buy a big deal offered by Evan's Construction, be sure to act quickly so you can get your money back if/when he stands you up. I'm done with Evan's Construction and probably this service too.

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Fixing someone else's work is always the worst job a contractor can take but Mr. Evans took the job on. All of the work was done outside and it was during a time where it rained every day. I knew that he had taken the job thinking he could finish it within 5 days and scheduled the work as so. Because of the rains it took him almost a month to finish the job. It was no fault of his that it took so long and I admire him for sticking with it and not only finishing the job but doing a wonderful job with it. He designed all of the Trellis work himself and it is beautiful. He built a custom gate for a fenced in section of the yard and that was also first class. He hung some antique doors from India on our fence and like everything else he did a first class job. He is a very conscientious and honest man and we feel blessed that we found him. I think some of the problems the other people had were caused by all the rains we have had that played havoc with his schedule. We are going to use him again to fix the roof on our deck (also done by another contractor on Angies List). Again we found him to be a very conscientious and honest man and enjoyed working with him and were very pleased with the work he did.

It was a deal of $1350 for a general contractor for a week. He was impossible to reach after I bought the deal. It took over a month to get a call back and get scheduled. the work was being done on an empty rent house so I really wanted it completed quickly so I could get it rented again. When he met with me to go over my list he initially said everything could be completed in the week I had already purchased except the paint. I had had a paint contractor come out already and bid that and was going to have them do that job but Brian sounded knowledgeable and offered a fair price ($100 more that them) and he was already going to be there so I let him have that too in addition to the work I originally planned for him to do. That is when the trouble began. Brian did not show up for the job but sent someone who worked for him. They started with the siding and then prepping for the paint. That took a week. After looking at the work done so far I called Brian and asked him to come look at it as I was not happy. A couple weeks later after missed appointments, no call backs etc. he did finally met with me. He agreed that the work would have to be redone but he had every excuse in the world as to when it would happen. A couple more weeks later Brian came to do the work himself. He did a very good job on everything that he completed himself and he was very personable at that point. He asked me for a good review and I said that since he had made the work right that I would give him one. He just needed to come back one more time to finish up the last bit, a ceiling repair in the garage that was part of the damage from the leaking roof. He never came back. And never responded to a single call after that. He had gotten his final draw from me that day and had promised he would return... I shouldn't have given him the last of the money before he was done but I thought he truly wanted to make things right, especially after he brought up me giving him a good review. Lesson learned. I had to pay another contractor to come finish so I could get the house rented. If you are not in a hurry to get your job done and you don't mind babysitting him to make sure he does what he says, Brian does very good work. When he shows up. 6/30/15. RESPONSE TO BRIANS RESPONSE: I feel that I gave the best most accurate review possible. If you had returned to complete the last of the work I would have been willing to leave a completely positive review, but you did not. If you did return to do the work (which I doubt) and the tenant was not there then you should have contacted me. Heck, you should have contacted me to set up a time for she or I to be there anyway! The bottom line is that it was not a happy experience. I did not mention before but will now that the siding repairs have not held up. Every piece that was replaced has warped, cracked or buckled from the rain we got this spring. None of the old existing siding has done that so I don't know what kind of material you used but I am not happy with it. As far as my boyfriend and I being gone for a month... that's ridiculous.

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We had a job of renovating the master bathroom. David Evans was very accommodating and went like gang busters for a week. It dragged on for 4 months. Tile was badly done and had to be redone more then once The plumbing in the tub was leaking at the drain and the faucets. As a result the cement board behind the tub got wet, and is now moldy. The vanity was not properly installed. The front legs are not touching. The issues just kept building. When have tried to contact him multiple times, and never got a response. We finally hired a different contractor to finish the work. The new one requests that no money be paid until the job is done. Dave Evans required a large portion up front. I can not recommend the work done by Evans Construction Services. Also within a year the shower started leaking and the entire shower and floor might have to be redone

He was difficult to reach. Virtually no on site supervision. Took draws and didn't do the work. In the end, it cost us nearly $15,000 due to have to have all of his work redone.

Came out to survey the project, promptly. Was a little slow to get back with an estimate. And after agreeing on a contract price of $1945, I paid $850 down to start the project. Things looked like they were going to go well. He showed up on the next Saturday, unannounced, with hi polite young son(10-12yo) in tow. So when I asked what he was doing there, as he was supposed to start Monday, he said he was just doing a double check for materials and that this job should be able to be completed very quickly because it was unoccupied, enabling him to come early and stay late with out worrying about occupants. Great!!!! I thought.... I go to work around 7:30 in the morning, he was never there when I went to work. I get home from work around 4:30 in the evening, he was there one time over a week and a half. I questioned him about the slow pace things weren't getting done, got the usual contractor response, "Well I had a couple other jobs that needed my attention", though the reason I hired him was that he had just finished two jobs and was able to dedicate himself to this job. I was unhappy with the quality of some things he had done up to that point. But then he installed the bathroom vent and cut a hole significantly larger than the faceplate would cover, I don't know what he was thinking, but I terminated him the next morning. He had "completed???" roughly $650 of the project to that point, so I agreed to let him keep the other $200 from the down payment in order to get him to sign a PAID IN FULL agreement. All I can say is Mr. Brian Evans does POOR quality work, what work was actually done.

Slow, shoddy jobs, unfinished project in some cases

Mr Evans came to my home, told me what they would do. They contacted me and said they would do the work and a few extra plumbing issues I needed done. Then he contacted me and said it was raining and he was behind on work. He stated the work would be done that week(two weeks ago). I have had no contact with him in two weeks. I sent an email yesterday with no response. Maybe the company is too big to handle this job. Just give my money back and I will find someone.

So far, they have been very nice and knowledgeable. We plan to use the deal at the end of the month. I have called to see what exactly they can do and what they can't.

Received one phone call and two emails stating they had medical issues and we would be contacted soon. This has not happened. I would like to request a refund for this deal.

on time, clean in appearance and professional in the work done.

He has been very cooperative, helpful and gave us great ideas. He came out initially on a Saturday and emailed us the quote mid work week per our request.

We were very pleased with the work done by Evans Construction. Brian was professional, knowledgeable, efficient, and trustworthy. He made the extra effort to complete what we had discussed and then followed up to be sure it was all to our satisfaction. We would definitely use Evans Construction again.

Fix glass shower door, lights outside the house, and replaced ceiling fan light kit. He returned calls in a timely matter and kept on top of parts needed. Very clean I was very satisfied with his work

Fine. Headboard is secured to the wall now.

Removed a trellis and repaired some damaged Hardi-Plank. I am using them again for another project today (i.e., 6 January) due to their outstanding workmanship and fair prices.

Mr. Evan's contacted me quickly....even though it was a major holiday..he made the time. We have scheduled an appointment for work to be done.

It was good work. They did what I asked at a reasonable price. I had some other work to do and they quoted me a reasonable price and did that as well. They are probably going to have to come back and do a few touch-ups, but other than that they were excellent.

See above. Paid attention to detail; size of molding, type of paint; coordinating hardware. I really appreciated the ability to communicate my needs and discuss options. Adding a pantry was something I had delayed, I wish I had done it sooner.

Mr. Evans did an excellent job with everything. He paid attention to every detail. He did the work in a timely manner. He was very professional and his rates were quite reasonable. When he was finished, the house looked beautiful!

This entire experience was the worst thing I have ever experienced in my ENTIRE LIFE!!! This was worse than the 27 total months I spent in Iraq, multiplied by 100!! Worst business deal I have ever been involved with by far. Brian Evans complained to my husband and I constantly for the money he was spending on gas to come to our house, we got extremely irritated with his immature way of handling situations such as the gas because our thought process is 'if you choose a profession such as contracting then things such as gas going to and from your given place of work is an expected expense on the businessman's side.' It was apparent to my husband and I that Brian Evans was not okay with certain expenses such as gas to be a part of his chosen profession. Another thing that bothered us was that he would constantly complain about only having "$12 in my pocket and I still have to get gas to get home", in turn expecting us to hand him money whenever he wanted it instead of waiting until the AGREED upon time frames for him to get money. On top of these irritations-one more sticks out in my memory, he would get very upset and would argue with us about how he was "doing all this work for us for free and I am so far ahead of you in work you will never be able to pay me in full" and how he claimed to be doing so much work in our house for free. So to try and alleviate the stress and strain that was occurring we told Brian that we never asked for ANY free-bees and if he was stressing over doing anything like that then he needed to stick to the agreed upon things that we were paying him for and leave it at that. He would then say "I'm a man of my word and I said I would do things for you and I will do them". Well those were lies that he was telling us because in that original bid(above), NOTHING was completed, and most things had not even been touched. We finally got sick and tired of paying him for not doing the work he had promised to do for us and we asked him to leave. We met with him the end of September and thought that it would be a good idea to go with him because he gave us the best quote and we were on a tight budget because we were depleting most of our savings by purchasing the house. The house closing got pushed back almost two weeks so we met at the house on Oct 12-he then requested the $2500 deposit-which to me was strange because my husband and I had told him that the cost of all materials would be our responsibility....but we agreed to it anyway. That weekend he then called us to give the excuse that his truck was having issues and he needed to get it fixed.....good thing he was just given a $2500 check to be able to afford that!! So time kept going by and he FINALLY started on the house on a Saturday-Oct 20 to be exact which was EIGHT days after I handed him a $2500 check. So to begin with I personally was not impressed and not happy at the situation but we tried to be patient and give it a chance. He worked for about 6.5 days and then called us to say he was out sick so when he felt better he would let us know. We are human and understand things happen so again we were trying to be patient and ensure this business deal worked out for us. Finally on that following Wednesday which was Oct 31 he started back to work at the house. He had a "partner" with him most of the time and there would even be numerous occasions that I would stop by the house unannounced and Brian would not be there but his "partner" would be. I would call Brian to ask of his whereabouts and I would get blunt explanations like "Oh an old client needed some work on his fence so I'm doing that right now". All I could think of with things like that was "wow, It must be nice to be getting DOUBLE the pay yet you're only doing the solo work, wow!" This was not the only time I had been told that he was working elsewhere other than our house, he had informed me one time as well that the would be taking time away from our house to work on a previous clients' bathroom because he promised her that when she got more money he would go out there to help with things. Nevertheless, it made my husband and I feel VERY IMPORTANT that our already paid for business was such a priority for him. As most things go, the house was becoming a bigger project that Brian and his "partner" could handle. What I mean by that is when things were exposed during demolitions it was discovered that there was water damage in multiple areas of the house as well as termite damage which was a priority to be assessed. On top of that there were certain things that Brian was not agreeing with in the original bid that I was wanting. For instance, I wanted new baseboards throughout the entire house and though it says that on the original bid, he was interpreting that as baseboards only being replaced in the living room area. I also wanted the downstairs bath to have some alterations as well as some alterations in the laundry room and those were not in the original bid either. Brian originally made it appear that he was an honest and hard worker, but time plus our experience working with him proved that interpretation to be incorrect. He even told us he would work 6 days a week, 10-12 hours a day until he got the job done but i cannot say I recall him EVER working more than about 8 hours and that was a very long day for him compared to when he normally came and went. We had told him from the beginning that we were on a budget and needed to stay as close to on track to that as possible and apparently he took that as we weren?t going to pay him, yet he managed to get almost $7,000.00 out of us in a little over a 3 week span! We were royally screwed over here. Perhaps this guy can do small jobs and perhaps he can do them well, but when it comes to a large project that apparently grows larger, he simply cannot handle the stress of it. He stressed my husband and me out so much over NOT completing 90-95% of the work he promised he would do yet between the two bids it came to a grand total of $10,600.00 that we would have paid him, and in the 3.5 weeks that he ?worked? for us we seriously paid him $6,800.00. On top of his bad first impressions of starting so late then when he did start work for about 6 days he then got ?sick? for about 5 days-he demanded another $1,800.00 just to start up working again!!! I could not believe it but my husband was so confident that he was an honest guy and he wouldn?t do us wrong. So what my husband agreed to with him, which we assumed would be the best for both of us was to pay him at the end of each week $1,000.00. We definitely lost out by thousands of dollars as well as weeks of time, both of which I can?t imagine we will ever be recouped for. So from October 12th of giving him the $2500.00 to start to October 20th when he actually began the work to October 26-31 when he was ?sick? and demanded another $1800.00 to start back up with work again to getting $1000.00 at the end of every week until we asked him to leave which was the weekend of November 16th, and the additional $500.00 that was negotiated outside of the bid, the grand total we paid him was $6,800.00 with 3.5 weeks of work IF he even put in full hours at the job which I already know he didn?t and I explained that earlier from my many conversations I had with him about his whereabouts when I would show up to the house and he would not be there. Now, our dilemma is trying to get the work accomplished with the very little money we have left since we spent most of it on Brian doing pretty much nothing, and we have to be moved into the house before December 30 because that?s when our apartment lease is over. Back in September and even in October it never occurred to us that this is what we would be experiencing. We are so heartbroken that this has happened, but we finally got so exhausted of Brian and his ?partner? not producing to the amount of money that we were forking out to him that we felt our only option was to ask him to leave. I do not know of a single job in this world that pays their employees upfront-I served as an Army Medic for almost 8 years and NEVER once did we get paid up front, everything was after the fact, and the same applies to every single job I held prior to the military and every single job I have held since being in the military. Jobs do not pay upfront but one of the many issues with Brian is he expects to be paid up front and he expects you to trust that he will complete the job even when he isn?t showing progress the way progress should be going. My father is a licensed contractor in Arizona and I know from experience that even when things get along the way that they shouldn?t take as long as he was taking with things unless there is only one man working on things?which is apparent that was the case. I am curious as to what complaints Brian will come back with regarding my post on his unprofessional behavior and my recommendation to NEVER hire him unless you 1. Have tons of money to waste, 2. Have tons of time to be patient with his many excuses and delays, and 3. Can be very flexible to his schedule since chances are your job will not rank as a priority to him even when you pay him upfront for not doing any work or very little work. Again, I know this complaint was very long but I wanted it to be as thorough as possible which is why I was quoting the bids exactly so you see what was promised and at what prices and then you could hear what was done and what was not done. I truly hope that this was helpful and if you do decide to hire Brian I pray you do not experience our misfortune.

He was very friendly and business-like. I was impressed with his service and how quickly he was able to complete the work.