Stay far far FAR away from Drytech.
We chose Drytech over other contractors because they had a physical office, been in business for 20 years, and a good standing with the Better Business Bureau (BBB).
We could NOT be more WRONG.
We hired Drytech to rebuild our aging sundeck early July 2014 which was promised to be completed in a month's time. Fast forward ONE YEAR LATER, the whole thing ended with us taking Drytech to ARBITRATION.
As other reviewers have indicated, Drytech hires sub-contractors to do the actual work. Within a week of starting, their sub-contractor got in an argument with their carpenter, and BOTH LEFT THE JOB. Instead of getting a replacement carpenter, Drytech hired random workers from Cragislist to continue the job, some of whom jumped into our backyard pool to cool off in the summer heat!
By Dec 2014, the deck had been half-built, torn down due to improper construction and then rebuilt all over again but with so many deficiencies that we escalated matters with Drytech's owner and president, Ken Magoski. That's when we realized why Drytech was in such disarray.
Ken is breathtakingly useless. Don't be taken with his sweet-talking demeanour...his business practices are in the finest traditions of shady used car salesmen you see on tv.
When he came over to inspect the unfinished deck, he blatantly dismissed 90% of the deficiencies, save for a couple of trivial problems that he himself attempted to fix with an electric drill and some glue.
As a sanity check, we got a Professional Quantity Surveyor to assess the deck and produce a report outlining all the outstanding deficiencies...which Ken still dismissed.
To top it off, Ken asked us to pay up, but quoted an amount that was 20% MORE than the signed contract! When confronted, he explained it by saying he's got a lot of difficult to keep track of paperwork. Reality? A feeble attempt to swindle us for more money. Don't take your eye off this guy for one second.
Taking things up with the guy at the top usually produces results. But in Drytech's case, the guy at the top can't do basic math, pays little to no attention to emails, and has no interest in customer satisfaction.
To sum it up, go with Drytech if you:
- Enjoy having your project delayed TEN TIMES longer than promised
- Need practice remembering the names and faces of random Craigslist workers on your property who may or may not show up day to day
- Like educating the president of a 20 year old company that common courtesy includes not trespassing on your property unannounced
- Want first hand experience going through the BC Arbitration process read more