The devil is in the details.
Archie's viewed our damaged…read moredeck and basically said no problem. Well, let me describe the problem. First they just ghosted us for a few weeks after they said they would start the project, gave us no reply and no start date. Then when they gave us a start date they didn't show up to start until weeks after they suggested. Then they went on vacation(?) and contracted out the job to a guy who had no clue. Dude showed up for work at 1, 2 and 3 pm, and kept working until after dark, and even after I said I needed to go to bed. Staying until 11 pm, and working in the dark. When Archies came back they agreed that the project was so messed up it had to be mostly torn down and rebuilt. New wood was needed. They left piles of wood and boxes of tools on the lawn leaving dead grass when they finally finished months later. During the project we asked them to notify us when they were coming, because we have several large territorial dogs that are not always friendly, but at one point they showed up at 4 pm, after they said they would start in the morning and finish the job that day (ha! it went on for another week) one of the builders walked in with a small child, throwing open the gate without looking and luckily my dogs were kenneled. At one point I was walking my dogs out the front to "go" and avoid all the happenings in the back yard, when I opened my front door a workers dog ran up in our face, he almost ran into the house, and would have if I hadn't slammed the door in his face to avoid a fight with my territorial dog. Once the project was done it became clear that the craftsmanship was just not there, cracks in the wood, a splintering banister that hadn't been sanded, wood they reused from the initial mess up cracked and screw holes throughout. They broke a light fixture, but just painted it and put it back up as if it wasn't broken. Left broken hardware in use, even in plain sight. When My husband said he didn't like the idea of using particle board for fascia, and instead would like it to match the rest of the fascia on the house, they persisted that their way was best until he just gave up and decided to fix it himself after they left. They were told there was extra siding, and just to let us know we would get it from the barn when it was needed, but instead they cut and reused damaged siding, so that one long piece was put back up as three pieces(?!?!?), and it was stained with dirt from having sat on the ground under their wood pile. The railing features wood putty that doesn't match the wood and in very visible places. And then there was the litter. So much litter, cigarette butts, screws, small pieces of wood and most aggravating of all zyns, those oral nicotine chew pouches, which can cause dogs to become severely ill or worse all over the yard. I wasn't going to write a review, I know running a small business is hard, but getting a sliver from putting my hand on the banister today just put me over the edge.
On the plus side, the workers were all polite.