DO NOT HIRE or even talk to 3 Strong Handymen from Rockford Il for ANY reason! William R. Hall III (aka Bill Hall) owns this business which goes by various names around the 3 Strong theme. One of the strong men quit and so now there are only 2 strong men. The other guy is Brett who was cordial all the time. The same can't be said of Bill! It appears Bill has an anger issue, and the anger is palatable when speaking with him. At first, when he is getting money, he is very nice but after that it's a different story! Any questions or observations by me where quickly rebuffed and I was told to wait until it was done. Bill's communication skills are poor at best. Bill's knowledge of carpentry is frighteningly minimal. He has no knowledge of building code or the correct names of windows, headers, or rafter load and many more! At best they only worked about 5 hours a day never showing up before noon! One other thing about Bill, he always has an excuse for everything and why they don't show up for work. Twice he said his son dropped his phone in water and twice they broke down on the road. He also used possible rain as an excuse not to even show up. I contracted with Bill to build a 3-season room on our deck and a shed in the yard. Each had a separate contract, which I have now learned are illegal! Plus, he broke several agreements outlined in the contract, so the contracts are null and void. The 3-season room had so many code violations and atrocious carpentry errors that when the new contractor and building inspector came by, they could hardly believe it. I thought the building inspector was going to throw-up! The building inspector said the whole structure would have to be removed. The roof, walls and floor had to go. This cost me money and time, plus a dumpster for all the bad wood and roof. Some of the issues where the deck roof was not connected to house roof properly. I am told that in strong wind or heavy snow the deck would collapse and take some of the house with it. The contract called for double pain windows, single pane was used, Bill did not know the difference between single pane and double pane windows. There were no headers above the windows or door, a major structural problem. They used caulk that dissolved in the rain and ran on the walls and outside step. Bill used insulation foam as caulking to block the wide cracks between the wall panels, windows, and door. The connection between the house roof and room was a constant leak source. The connection leaked and they came to fix it spending their whole 5 hours here fixing it. When it rained, I had a 20 ft long leak in the 3-season room. That's when I fired them. I could go on and on about Bills failures in building our 3-season room, but not enough room here! As far as the shed goes, they never started it! This is just plain out fraud! By the way they never had a problem going into my garage looking for tools they needed without permission! I am now missing my Milwaukee Saws-All! Bill is a felon on some sort of gun charge, and this is his new scam! I am sure Bill has excuses for all this as always. I have attached some photos to this review to showcase Bill's incompetence. read more

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Not sure where to even begin. I'm only putting this review out there so others will not find themselves disappointed. Let's say something nice at the start, Brett does a good job with his sprayer and with his painting. Brett is generally cordial. Many things were done that I was not capable of doing myself such as some electrical work and Plumbing. They were nice enough the very first day before they actually started doing the other work to move a couple of heavy pieces of furniture upstairs for me. However, upon closer inspection and numerous days experience, I began becoming increasingly alarmed. I realized that the wiring for the new hot tub was not code and I mentioned that. They insisted that it was but went ahead and tore it up and redid it by actually encasing it underground in a tube instead of just the raw wires. Of course I paid for all of their time, including all the time that was spent unnecessarily. There was actually much unnecessary time that I started observing, such as both men going off to exchange a part that was the wrong one that they had previously picked up. Or, going out to get a certain size drill to make a hole in the door, or, leaving to go find a level... Of course on the clock the whole time! I always expect the best, I don't micromanage and when I started looking at the trim work that was done on the interior I couldn't believe it! There was no mitering where there should have been just raw uncut uneven edges meeting one another, pieces missing holes where there shouldn't be and the list goes on and on! Brand new ceiling, hole in the material itself on the edge, poorly cut new ceiling in the powder room downstairs which they said they were going to recut, never did , brand new faucet in the bathroom tub, and when I went to use it for the first time days after it had been installed it was loose. They argued and said that it wasn't that way when they put it in... My staff had been using that bathtub to clean their paint pans and brushes. For the sink, they did mention that they had left some part out when they put the original one back in that was never supposed to have been switched out to begin with. They said they fixed it. Didn't. I had them install a box on the door that has a code for entry. When one of my staff arrived this morning they had installed a door knob that also had a lock and they locked it when they left yesterday. We were locked out and no key. I messaged him and said my staff was locked out and I didn't understand why that door was locked with the new keypad. He began yelling at me uncontrollably and said that I never told him not to lock that bottom lock. I frankly didn't even know they had put a lock on the bottom because it would be unnecessary. Bill has been pretty disrespectful at times while working for me in the last couple of weeks or so and I just kept my silence and would just walk away and let him be. I could see he has a very violent temper. The list could go on and on I would just warn anybody not to engage with this company. I have paid an exorbitant amount of money $7,777.00!!!, plus supplies,and we agreed to do everything on an hourly basis , but so much time was lost with leaving and running around doing this and that and the other and catching Brett on his phone many many times, and seeing Bill not active just standing there with Brett and when they noticed me all of a sudden the conversation would turn to what they were going to do next. I'm a pretty smart cookie, I guess they didn't think I was. I just wanted to get the job done. Should have been looking more closely at their work. Have to stop trusting. I would like to add photos, but I'm not at that property right now. If I can add them later I will. read more

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In my opinion, stay away from 3Strong Handyman Services and owner William Hall also goes by Bill Hall. He took my deposit of $2000 to put my project of building a 3 season room on my existing deck and then build a new composite deck. Once I got approval for the project from my village he then requested $8500 so he could purchasing the necessary materials. He originally said he would start the project in the spring of this year but then said he could start before 2021 ended or in January/February ( weather permitting). The project never got started and after me having to contact him his start date changed back to early spring and excuses after excuses came regularly . After finally having to listen to excuse after excuse in July I told him I'm canceling the project and requested a full refund. He advised me he doesn't have any of the $10,500 he had received and that he basically robs Peter to pay Paul but he is an honest guy and has every intention to pay me back in installments. He agreed to pay $1500 a month for 7 months and with much hesitation from me I agreed and sent him texts and emails with the breakdown of each payment for the next 7 months. He made the 1st payment but then reneged on the 2nd saying he can no longer afford the payment he was comfortable with and said he will take me to court and let a judge decide the amount of monthly payments he should make. So, he is going to try to take me to court over money he got from me to do a project that he never started/completed. Still trying to digest that. Lol In my opinion He definitely has a bad temper and bad communication skills. His buddy or partner Brett us very knowledgeable and knows how to communicate with others. read more

booked them in September 2022. kept making excuses on why they could not come out. paid a $2000 deposit for a new shed and vents for the roof. Tried to sue, but the attorney could not find him. absolutely do not book! read more