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Ohio Basement Authority sent a most professional service representative, Nathan, to my home today. Nathan quickly repaired a loose gutter installed in a pipe belonging to my system, and inspected the system in my house. Everything was A-okay! He showed me photos of everything he inspected. I had never seen the inside of the pump well before, very interesting! He answered all my questions My system and backup battery passed the test! It's such a value when you get what you need from a Service Representative!

Working with Ohio Basement Authority was truly an unbelievable experience. The levels of incompetency that each of the 50 people I had to interact with during this process was baffling (except for the customer service representatives, they were awesome every time and tried to move heaven and earth for me despite having to deal with this multiple times a week for five months!) I actually had to shorten the review because it was too long, there was so much that went wrong. Hilariously long story short, I had water getting into my sunroom. Had a few companies out to see why it was happening and what needs done to fix it. Everyone recommended a french drain install and to grade the area away from the home. Great! I went with OBA because of their great reviews and their estimate price was right in the middle. Big mistake! I get quoted $4.5k and they come out in a month from when I approved the work. They dig up the yard and lay pipe, tell me the downspouts are broken at the storm drain connections and need repaired, the job cannot be done that day. No problem, things come up and there was no way to know this was a problem. Quick aside, at the beginning that I said this process took over five months. Not once in those five months was I ever followed up with. At all, about anything, ever. I'm not kidding. Learning it needs additional work, I waited for most of that week and never heard from anyone. I start calling the main number, eventually getting transferred to service, whoever I do get transferred to has no idea what I'm talking about and has no clue they have to come back my house and that they just left the yard full of trenches and pipe. Whenever I get connected, I get the "we'll look into it and call you back" to which I never ever got a call back. Eventually I get an appointment and someone comes out and looks at everything. Now the $4.5k job is $10k. Whatever, I tell them to do it as my yard is a mess and they're already halfway done, what am I gonna do? They send a crew out weeks later and they don't even know what they are there for. They did not know they had to repair the downspouts and told me I need a plumber to camera the lines to see where the connections need to be made. HJack's came out swiftly and did a great job, identified the connections and told me the storm drain by the street is destroyed because the telephone pole pierced it. I call the city and get an appointment scheduled immediately, that is fixed within a month. OBA at this point has no idea what my job even is. I call another 10 times and have to explain to their service department and their supervisors what needs done. Eventually I get another appointment scheduled to repair the downspouts and complete the job. Several appointments happen from here, they send one guy during a snowstorm, he doesn't even know why he's here and can't do the job. They schedule again for a thunderstorm and they can't work. (the weather was know each time, I asked them if they could do the work with, they say yes) Finally, five months later job is done and the pictures show how they left the yard. Hilarious. The same night they left we got normal rain and water gets into the sunroom. Hilarious! They left the yard a mess of dirt and concrete and it was sloped even heavier toward the house now. Truly incredible experience. I gave them a down payment at the start and that is all they are getting out of me for leaving my yard a disaster for five months and then doing nothing but making the yard worse! I spent a full day myself after they left it like that just cutting up and disposing of the concrete they left in the middle of the path and digging the yard to try to slope it away from the house somewhat. We'll see if that did anything but I now am just going to totally redo the whole back patio area, which I could've had done months ago and with the money I wasted on these clowns. Hilarious experience in the end, could not recommend less. They still haven't called or texted pictures like they said they would to make sure the place looks good and to collect payment.

Ohio Basement Authority stabilized my basement walls back in November. They somehow disconnected the rod from the plate and water is coming through all of the holes they created in the wall and they are not coming back to fix the problem and they are not calling to schedule an appointment to fix the problems they caused. Be cautious when hiring this company. They also left a huge mess after doing the work.

Had them come out for a quote. High pressure sales but we caved as the sales lady was really nice and signed. Had second thoughts as it was a high pressure sales situation, and reached out to the sales lady, she came out a second time, addressed my concerns and questions, and updated the work order to add a woodwork project of sistering a joist and removed the permit fee as the job did not need a permit. They called to confirm the date they were coming out to do the job and I specifically asked for them to confirm that BOTH the waterproofing and woodwork was going to be completed that day, she paused, and told me yes, the job will be completed on Monday. Monday comes, they leave with incomplete job and request payment for the updated amount, so they had the correct updated order on hand. Part of the job included "remove and replace" the steps to the basement as they are in the corner. They dismantled the steps and did not replace them. I had 1/2 a set of stairs to my basement, just hanging there. Tuesday I reach out to GM Clayton and he tells me he will be in touch. Over 24 hours later I complete the "How did we do?" job completed survey, and I get a call from Clayton. They are coming out the following Monday to complete the job. Monday comes, they still do not finish the job and hire a subcontractor to finish the work. Literally had a different contractor come out and give Clayton a quote for the job in my home on Monday. He returned Tuesday morning to finish his job. He did a HORRIBLE job replacing the steps that were removed. Once I was FINALLY able to see the work in the basement, the workmanship is total crap. Clayton says they are coming out next Monday to repair the work but I am really disappointed with the whole situation. I will be seeking legal council about them breaching the contract, and seeking a refund for the inconvenience and stress of this due to their negligence.

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I am very disappointed with this company. They came out for an estimate and the salesman verbally…read moretold us a lot of information at once. We needed our basement wall repaired and waterproofed. There was a large piece of information they lied about, the fact we had to figure out on our own about an electrician coming out to take off our electrical panel and putting it back. Apparently otherwise they were just going to leave the panel hanging from the ceiling. The funny thing (sad thing) is the salesman had said all of this would be taken care by their electrician. Their tune changed when we said we would go ahead and just do the wall repair until we could save up to waterproof to avoid financing. They were quick to take our almost $3000 deposit but since we were considered a "small job" we would basically be on call for the work. Not to mention we would have to have our electrician on call which, an electrician isn't always able to do nor is it fair as they have their own business and schedule to run. The owner was rude to us because we were requesting was better communication and know what was going on with a little notice. Seems like unless you have a job over $10,000 with them to do you are pretty much nothing to them as far as customer satisfaction goes. We went ahead and got another quote with very similar pricing from a reputable company and we are being treated a lot better. They set a date with us and explained everything clearly. So glad this worked out the way it did. Avoid this company if you can as there are way better out there that can do the same quality work but treat you better.

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