Wow, what can I say, really hope to be able to give Mike a good review. 1 star because the deck…read morewas built and that's just about it. 1st off, when he came to give a quote, it was all promises of the best wood, no "eyes in the wood, only the best, stored indoors, cured, dried ..., best workmanship and on and on. I like to give him the benefit of the doubt. And love to help out small businesses. Again, I wish I was writing a great review for him now. Its a tiny deck which we needed only a very small deck, barely 200sft and slightly off the ground, he said he would build it 2 steps up and ended up only barely 1 step off the ground. For such a small deck you would think that the planks would at least be uncut, but we have at least 2 and more pieces of planks joined to make it across. Then the are hundred's of wood eyes on the wood he used , and before I even started using the deck the wood cracked in many places, sap everywhere. and the edges of the deck had many sharp jagged edges, too dangerous for kids and guest. The joints were starting to pop up. I paid him anyway, because I felt that that was the right honest thing to do on my part, I did not even mention it to him as I felt that he should be given a chance to make a honest living. I would have just left it as that and not even mention it to anyone... 1 week later the entire first plank came loose and rocking around, we called him to come back to fix it, did not show up as he promised on the weekday, no show, came back on the weekend stuck 2 tiny pieces of scrap wood under the deck and walked out on my house, did not even make eye contact with me??? And just drove away???Not sure if he was just having a really bad day or just his normal self, whatever it is, if you still want to give him a chance to work on your house please do but there are many other small companies out there, so you decide. June M who gave him a 5 star review, not sure what he did at your house and hope it's a real review, and if it is Id say Mike has changed since he worked at your house.
In conclusion, I'm going have to pay another contractor to come out here to fix the entire deck or worst case rip it all out and start over. Thousand of hard earned dollars down the drain, very sad.