Shelter Craft Inc

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Being clients of Mr. Sallee was a pleasant surprise, considering the many stories of owners and builders disassociating themselves at mid-course due to irreconcilable differences. We feel we had an open and honest relationship with Mr. Sallee, who was willing to answer questions and discuss issues as they arose. Above all, we feel that his first priority was our best interests. Despite our never-ending changes to original contract terms, he kept reminding us of the ultimate costs involved and telling us that our changes could well result in his not being able to complete the project to the contract terms. It is to his credit and attention to detail that he was able to complete enough of our project to pass our occupancy inspection and provide enough further work within budget to the point that our do-it-ourselves work will be mostly cosmetic. To us, the basic structural work and integration of heating and cooling, ventilation, electrical, plumbing, auxiliary heating, intercoms, cabling, and built-in central vacuum systems was nothing short of amazing. What we ended up with is a house that is tight, comfortable, and efficient. It has a heat pump mini-split system, heat recovery ventilation system, water filtering and softening system, and heated floors under the tiled bathroom floors. Once programmed and set, these systems provide a stable, comfortable, and healthy interior environment that adjusts to daily and weekend activity and occupancy levels in the house. Overrides are available options for increased ventilation during meal preparation or ventilating the bathrooms after showers. Although it is not a fully integrated, computer-monitored and enabled system, we are quite satisfied with how well it all works in our house. We feel that Mr. Sallee's choice of subs contributed to how well these systems were incorporated into the construction of our house. If we heard any criticism of Mr. Sallee's work it was, to some casual observers, a bit slower than they were accustomed to. It was also one of my initial impressions. However, I eventually concluded that time spent to insure fit and finish was often time saved in ensuing stages of construction. For example, the time the framers spent making sure that the subfloor was square and level allowed them to cut all the wall studs to the same length, assemble everything on the subfloor deck, and be certain that it would all fit perfectly, within tolerances and plumb, once they raised the walls. So in relative terms, the framing of the walls benefited from the care and time spent on the subfloor. The sill, truss, pony wall, post and beam, and cross-truss blocking are so well-fastened and glued that we have detected only one small squeaky spot throughout the house. The finished flooring is dead level so the tile setter had an easier time installing the roll-in/roll-out shower pan and we are having an easy time fitting built-ins and other finish work. We found that Mr. Sallee's bid came in just a bit higher than two other contractors we also asked for bids. There is no way for us to know how things would have gone with either of the other contractors if we had chosen one of them instead of Mr. Sallee, and it is possible that everything we have said about our experience with him would also have extended to them, but we continue to be happy with the job he did for us. We remain on good terms with him and are happy to see him from time to time around Sequim. We wish him well and would recommend him to others who are looking for a general contractor for remodeling and new construction work.