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    Ricardo S.

    In June of 2018, we purchased windows and a door for our home. Mike Larsen and his crew installed our windows and door. We could not have been more pleased with the workmanship and the professionalism of Mike and his crew. Recently, we were in a position to complete the remaining window projects for our home. We again chose ML Larson to perform our installation. Mike came out to our home, met with me, performed his measurements and I explained to him how we wanted our window installation to look. We have an older home, built in the latter part of the 50's. We wanted to maintain a classic look, while updating our windows to a more energy efficient window. Mike listened to our concerns, explained how his crew would install the windows, and answered all of our questions. Mike kept in touch with us throughout the process and contacted us to schedule an installation date when the windows were available. His crew came to our home, on time and promptly started working. They kept a very clean work area, masked off interior portions of our home to minimize dust and debris, and left our home clean and tidy. We are so happy with our choice to use Mike Larsen and his crew to perform the installation. You have a earned a customer for life. We could not be more pleased with the way our home has turned out.

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    On 11-1-2021 I signed a contract with ML Larson construction to install a four panel glass door in the living room of my personal residence. The installation of the door involved, at one point, lifting my wooden patio cover that is made of 4x6 beams and attached to the house roof, in order to install a large beam above the glass door opening for support. The entire project cost $21,000 and $9,000 of that was for the installation. I actually paid Mark Larson an extra $1000 to ensure a good job. Shortly after installation, it rained. I noticed water seeping down my interior wall from the corner of the roof where the large beam was installed and where the patio roof (that was lifted for installation) met the house roof as a part of the door installation. I immediately notified Mike Larson, owner of ML Larson construction, and sent him pictures of the wet drywall and leak going down the entire length of my interior wall. He said he would be out to look at it, but he did not. After several communications by me he finally sent someone out from his brother's construction company to look at the roof. That person (Eric) was supposed to get back with me on what would be done but he never did. After several more months, I was able to get in touch with Mike Larson again and he again sent out someone from his brother's construction company to look at my roof (Eric). This was in March 2022. He was again supposed to check with Mike and get back to me on what would be done but nothing ever happened. After several months went by again I contacted Mike Larson and told him that this needed to be fixed. It had rained many times by this point, and I still had a roof leak and had quite a bit of staining and ruined drywall texture on the interior of my wall as a result. On December 22, 2022, Mike sent his brother, Seth Larson, president and owner of Stel Builders Inc., a construction company, who says he also does some roofing, to my home. He looked at my roof, took some pictures and then sent me a report that basically said, in a rather rude way, that I had neglected my roof, and that there were many leaks in that area of the roof, but none of them were due to the work that his brother had done. When I pushed back and insisted they fix my leak, he said I was a neglectful homeowner and to prove it he saw my pool was dirty when he was there and I had broken pool chairs. He also said he could probably look around my property and find several more things that I had neglected to prove his point. He accused me of having a roof that was over 50 years old even though he did not actually know how old the roof is. He also accused me of having several patches on my roof as proof that I had had problems. Actually, roof is not 50 years old. There are no patches on the roof because I never had a problem before Mark Larson came and worked on my door installation. I find it interesting that Seth cannot determine the date of my roof, but he can pin point what he said were several leaks on the roof, as all being before October 2021 when his brother worked on my door installation. When Seth Larson inspected my roof, I had explained that the pool was dirty because my pool cleaner was not working and I would soon get to it. I do not know what broken pool chairs he is talking about. I have no broken chairs. And as for the roof, I had solar installed five years ago. I had the roof inspected by two different reputable roofers at the time, who said that the roof was in perfect condition. There were no issues before or after the installation of solar. So at this point (December 30, 2022), Mark Larson has not fixed my roof, has not honored his warranty, sent his brother to do his dirty work and left me with an expensive clean up. I would not recommend either one of these men nor their companies to do any work at your homes.

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    We use Micheal and his team often. They always get the job done right and on time. Very knowledgeable.

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