NAYLOR & BREEN BUILDERS INC

Baylor and Breen never abided by the terms of their standard AIA Contract. Appropriate documentation was not submitted with payment requests. Line item trades that were supposed to be subcontracted out were never bid out and in house employees were used at excessive rates. An honest, experienced Job Superintendent was replaced with a 'Trainee', and he was often times doing trade work and billing the time out at the Superintendent rate. Some employees were doing as many as eight and nine different trade jobs, and none of them being executed well. The number of hours billed was totally excessive including painters and cleaning personnel. The cleaning staff scratched every newly installed window by grinding in the dirt. The job was being billed for tools and materials that any trades person should normally have in the course of performing their job. What was supposed to be a three month job was never finished even after nine months. The list just goes on and on. When questioned about the terms of the Contract, the Contractor became belligerent, verbally threatening, and responded that he didn't care what the Contract he had signed required. When he refused to submit the appropriate documentation, payment for services was denied. We were then advised to comply with the Arbitration and Negotiation clauses of the Contract despite the Contractor's failure to abide by the same Agreement. Under Arbitration, Naylor and Breen submitted documentation that further supported the refusal to pay, and they subsequently walked away from any and all claims for payment. The job was left unfinished and with poor workmanship of those tasks that were performed. I would be happy to talk to anyone considering Naylor and Breen Builders, and share all the documentation regarding their poor business practices. In the end, we hired another construction company, and he finished and fixed the renovation in budget and in a timely manner. His handshake is his bond.