We hired Yonis and his K&B team to do our kitchen remodel and would absolutely recommend him. We…read morewere remodeling a kitchen which required removing a wall and eliminating an adjacent room, opening up a doorway for better flow to another room, and also replacing our roof, adding skylights, and replacing a bedroom window.
We read reviews and interviewed three contractors. We asked questions and did our diligence, and we liked all three contractors. However, Yonis was the only person to share a vision for what he saw happening to the space - which aligned with our vision without us telling him. Yonis' proposal were the best we received. We met once more to discuss how we would work together and signed a contract.
From there he started work almost immediately. Yonis is professional, has a warm sense of humor, and most importantly, fair. After reading a lot of horror stories and having our guard up regarding shortcut taking contractors, it was a relief to talk to someone honest and transparent with us throughout the process. His crew was respectful of our home and we had a good relationship with several of them. A couple of them did us a favor of fixing a non-closing door for no charge, helping us move furniture that had nothing to do with the project, and otherwise just be good people. No project is perfect, so when there were issues or concerns, he made sure to remedy them immediately. Since we lived in the house every day of the construction process, and since this was our first large home renovation, we were hyper organized and spoke to Yonis almost every day. We wanted our vision executed well, so we always maintained a discerning eye, and he expected us to let him know if we had questions or needed explanation as to how or why something was being done. At times given other projects they had, it did require us bugging Yonis a bit more, but he always did right by us, the customer. There was never a point where we felt like we were not getting a clear answer. Yonis also stayed with our budget and anything that came up through the project was always a fair pricing discussion with options for the work that needed to be done (fixing a pipe that wasn't in the original scope).
Projects like this require dozens of decisions, and so if we had one critique, it would be to know further in advance what decisions we would have to make. We like to research, and we had a design aesthetic we wanted to maintain, so a longer lead time for decisions would have been optimal for us. So, the more you know about what you want, how you want it, and where, the easier it will be. You should be your own project manager no matter who you hire.
We have since worked with K&B on a number of projects and have recommended him to other friends and family.