Life Long Construction

These jokers portrayed themselves as a couple of experienced guys that wanted to strike out on theri own. From the beginning we began to see problems. Their architect showed up to a meeting drunk. I had to fire the electrician becaseu he had a twelve year old working on his end. Lifelong (Justin Mattagliano) failed to pay sub-contarctors. They failed to convey the proper instructions to contratctors. The project which a competent contractor could have completed in two months took nearly seven. They attempted to bill us for overuns which had been genegerated by their incompetence and poor planning. Needless to say, we did not pay it and went to arbitration over it. The arbitrator granted a mixed award but in the end we paid less than the original estimate due to the probelems they created. I wouldn't hire these guys to build a chicken coop!

This company seems to consist of Justin and Clint, with occasional help from relatives and day laborers. The railings they welded literally fell apart within three days. They had spent weeks welding but had used inadequate heat in their welds. They showed no recognition of the inadequate quality of their work until I showed them how the railings fell apart. They re-welded with another welding device but I had to pay $2500 extra because they did not have enough funding to cover the costs. However, their re-welding was blobby, grossly uneven and ugly, and poorly painted. It rusted heavily within two months. I am spending $6000 with another company to replace all the welding done by Lifelong Construction. The caulking Lifelong did shrank and shriveled within two months. Furthermore, they overlooked cleaning dirty concrete and wood before applying caulk to it, and it quickly pulled away. Later they had to come back to replace the shriveled caulk but they cleaned only a small fraction of the concrete and wood, and this second caulking pulled away where they did not clean. Now I am ripping it out and replacing it myself, which is a lot of work. They overlooked handling drainage of rainwater from the decks and this caused rusting of internal steel support posts and streaming of rusty water that discolored the deck posts after it dried. I am now fixing this drainage problem they caused. Their painting was generally adequate but they left lots of paint spots on the windows I had to clean off. They dropped wooden boards and nails into the back yard and did not clean them up well; when the landscapers came they buried these and now this buried junk interferes with our garden and we have spent a lot of time digging up and removing the junk. They claim to be competent and experienced and they speak in a friendly and confident way. However, the work they did was incomplete and highly flawed, from design to clean-up. It is my experience that their efforts require someone else's close supervision and inspection.