We purchased a presold Crabbe Construction home two years ago. We were told by neighbors that the previous buyers walked away after struggling with the builder on numerous issues with the house. We didn't hear this story until we had already purchased the home, of course. I wish I had some sort of review or previous advice before purchasing a Crabbe built home.
Prior to closing on the home we had to push Crabbe to complete numerous items on the punch list to close on time. We met with John Crabbe six weeks prior to closing, so there was plenty of time to get these things complete. It was a stressful relationship from the beginning.
After moving in our A/C went out and it has gone out several more times in the past two years. We have a leaking bathroom window and a leaking shower, even after bringing this to John Crabbe's attention and numerous attempts to correct it, they still leak. We have horrible tile work throughout the house, kitchen, bathrooms, if you're not careful you will scrape your feet on protruding tiles on the floor. Our garage door has been repaired twice because it was not secured to a stud. The drywall throughout the house is horrendous to include nail pops that we were told by John Crabbe could were not covered for repair unless they broke through the wall completely. Our driveway and gargage have cracks spider webbing everywhere. We've had repairs by them on things and they would come out worse than they started. The funniest thing recently was when I went to change the battery in our smoke detector and it fell out of the ceiling, it wasn't secured to anything, just stuck up in the drywall. We have cupping/popping wood floors and carpet seams that are extremly visible. Our brick and mortar chip and crack very easily. There have been whole corners of brick just fall off. They sealed our attic access doors.
Our countertops on either side of the stove were not the same height. We found this out after installing a backsplash and finding out it was going downhill. We then had to demolish the backsplash get the counters shimmed and re install the tile backsplash. Apparently, they had adjusted the stove to make it appear as though the counter tops were even. How clever!
We had our property resurveyed because something about the drainage easement and the plat diagram did not seem right. We found out that close to half of our back lot was not landscaped. We had no idea it was our property. Crabbe Construction did come out and landscape after the discovery but they did not grade it properly and now we get flooding and standing water from the drainage easement everytime it rains.
There are so much more I could list but it would go on and on. I just hope this review helps the next home buyer make an informed decision. I wrote a previous review on Yahoo but it was somehow removed by Crabbe Construction. I know not everyone's experiences are the same but I have talked with numerous people who went with Crabbe Construction who have similar stories. People have the right to know if a company is not five star, that's what reviews are for. read more
