Hiring Greg Gardner at Elephant Builders was one of the best decisions we every made.
We decided to replace our porch deck after hassling with the maintenance for over a year. Painting it and continued to have it chipping away.
We interviewed 5 companies. Two Home Depot referrals, two builder/remodeling companies and Elephant Builders that specialized in only building decks and porches.
Price wise, the Home Depot referrals were at approx $10,000, young and inexperience guys, Elephant was at $13,000 + additional design items he exposed us to that we wanted totaling $15,000, another builder was at approx 15,000, and the last builder was at $21,000. No one had even mentioned the optional design elements Greg did. Plus Greg said he would be on the job every day with his men. None of the others committed that way.
I went to see three of Greg's jobs and talked to the property owners. Jobs looked great, all owners happy, one was even surprised that Greg reduced the final price because it didn't take as long as he projected. My wife and I were convinced, this was the company we wanted. And what a great decision.
After Greg's crew demolition, the prior framing underneath we so poorly done and rotted, we opted to have it all removed and have Greg start from scratch. Greg told us what the additional cost would be, which was very reasonable, and then said he was crediting us from the original bid for the work that would have had to be done if we left the original framing in place.
Greg and his men showed up everyday on time, and finished on time. they cleaned up, put all of our porch furniture and plants back in place and showed nothing but character and class. Extremely nice people who did what they said, exactly. Even some extra stuff we never expected.
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