I actually learned about Castlewood Construction from the vendor (Central Valley Awning) who sold me the material to build two patio covers. Castlewood Construction was on a list of approved contractors from the vendor. We played phone tag for a couple of days, and then was able to talk with the owner, Tom Pallinger, who stated that he had installed quite a few of these patio covers. After he looked at the plans that I forwarded from Central Valley Awning, he agreed to do the job for slightly more than Central Valley had stated in their ads. This was okay because the job was quite complex with both patio covers attaching to each side of a long, elevated solar panel array in the middle that was to provide shade from the sun for my Bocce court that ran under the new covers and the existing solar array. Well, Tom showed up on schedule after driving about 100 miles, only to find that some of the parts were missing. So the job was put on hold for a couple of weeks until the correct parts arrived at my house. Did I mention that not enough parts arrived? He could only install one patio cover on the first day. So Tom contacted the vendor, stated the problem and got a promise that the missing parts would be shipped out and arrive the next morning. They did, and Tom was able to complete the job by day's end of the the second day. Considering that I did not do a really great job of installing the upright posts in concrete in quite as straight line as I would have liked and they were not exactly level, Tom had a lot of extra work just correcting my mistakes. Suffice it to say that he did a masterful job of installing the covers over the existing Bocce Court and attaching them to the existing solar panels. It looks great!!!
He and his able-bodied assistant cleaned the job site thoroughly and were far more professional than I might have been given the circumstances and delays.
Tom Pallinger is a consumate professional, and his company, Castlewood Construction certainly deserves your consideration. Considering the fantastic value I received for the money paid, I would not hesitate to use him again. read more