Behr removed a wall in our kitchen, installed new counter, installed a new range & vent, and built a wood breakfast bar.
Short review - you get what you pay for - they are a little more on the pricey side, but their work was great quality. We will enjoy our breakfast bar and new counters for years to come. My in-laws were admiring the perfect corners of the wall and the seemless soffet they created for the newly opened wall.
Long review - We worked with Jeff on the bidding process, originally asking for quotes on a bit more work (we had big visions when moving into our first house). It took a while to receive the quote, but it was nicely prepared. All the projects were seperated and detailed so we could see how much each cost. Their bid to paint the interior of the house was very high and they were not able to come down, so we hired another company to do this. They understood completely and coordinated well with the painters.
As far as the work, there were two times when an unforeseen circumstance increased the price of the quote - the gas line was in the wrong spot to hook up to the new range so it cost extra to move it, and we had to move AC vents. But compared to the horror stories you hear about remodeling work, I think 2 times was reasonable.
Matt was our project manager. He was nice but not the most prompt communicator. For example, when we needed the extra work done it took a while to get the actual pricing. We kept asking for a detailed schedule of the work to be done and never received it.
We had an issue with the counter supplier - we picked out the slab and the vendor sent a different slab to the fabricator. We found out when the fabricator was asking us where to make the cuts and explaining why the slab wouldn't work very well. Since I had taken pics of the slab we picked out, it was easy to show that the marble company that they switched it on us. The fabricator was awesome - he went with us to the supplier, stood up for us and argued with them. Anyway, Matt did a good job negotiating with them on this error and helping to get a discount on a new slab we picked out.
I would definitely work with Behr again in the future, and hope we get the opportunity to do so. Particularly if it were a larger job, I would be a lot more forceful to get a schedule of work. Our project did end up taking a bit longer than we thought it would - partially because of the slab issue. read more