One reviewer said that DeWolfe made a mountain out of a mole hill and grossly inflated costs. That is our experience as well.
We hired DeWolfe after another engineer made serious errors on our site map (got the set backs wrong and put the home site in the wrong place). After months of the first engineer not returning emails and phone calls, or correcting the site map, we hired DeWolfe to correct the site map and move the home site to within the set back area.
Rather than doing that, they contacted the original engineer, who updated the site map and sent it to them in the corrected AutoCAD file. As a result, they really did not need to do the vast majority of the work for which we hired them. While we were grateful that they have a relationship with the first engineer, we are not really very happy about paying them for work they didn't actually do.
Even worse: one of the members of our site crew asked their Sr. Engineer if they has measured the distance between the home and the septic system. DeWolf responded by saying that measuring that was "outside the scope of work." Huh? What?
They were hired to move the home site. Doing so would 100% require them to measure the distances between the house and septic system. They then proposed an additional design phase to our project, that everyone else has said we didn't need to do and that would have delayed our project past a mission-critical deadline that was fast-approaching. They wanted to charge us an additional $7,000 for this new project that would have caused insurmountable delays for us.
Furthermore, even though they did almost none of the actual work for which we hired them, they have told us they used up the entire budget for the project. When we complained and declined to hire them for the additional $7k, they canceled another small project we hired them for (to simply mark the drive on the property, which we believe they should have included in the original work).
They seem to want to do the very least amount of work possible, while trying to squeeze as much cash out of their clients as they can. read more