My experience with Pinnacle Structural...(terrible)
Meeting with Mike was a pleasure. He was friendly, and I assumed that he knows his business rather well. I had over $23k worth of work for him to complete:
1) Foundation work at our primary residence
2) Repairing a caved in wall for a crawl space at our rental property
3) Installing 3 egress windows for 3 different properties
I informed him of the issues I had encountered with a former egress company (job getting shutdown for no permits, and taking over 12 weeks to complete the job, and how there was a problem with communication with the job). Because of these issues, he assured me a number of things:
"Anything that is not completed properly, we will fix":
a. Sprinkler systems that get buried;
b. Proper clean-up of the property;
c. Does not want customers will not be involved with the process, to alleviate stress;
d. Egress windows will take 3 days at most;
I received a call from one of my tenants who informed me that there were men working (egress work), and entering the dwelling (never notified of this start time, from Mike, the owner). She asked them to NOT go through the house, as they had a side door for access (yet they kept on walking through the property as she was getting ready for work). I called Mike to go over the issue, and informed him that this is not only unprofessional, but a HUGE liability for my renter. He agreed, and informed me that he spoke with them, and that would not happen again. I also informed him of a miscommunication with the start dates that we had gone over the day before. Long story short, the lack of communication was on their offices end, which was partially blamed on me (though I am not sure how much more explicit I can get other than requesting specific dates and times for the jobs).
Mike, passive/aggressively informed me that "it was my (his) fault because a contract was never signed for the job(s)" and that he would make sure, in the future, that this would not happen again.
Day two also brought an interesting situation. As I went to check on the crawl space for the other property, the "foreman" informed me that the hole they had allotted for was too small, and asked me if it "is okay if we expand the hole closer to the house".........whaaaaaaaaaaa?!?!?!?!? The company that sent an engineer out to the property for assessment wants to change a plan, and they are asking me for my permission?!?!?!?!?!?!? How the F$%k would I know? That is what I paid A LOT of money for an engineer for. I informed the "foreman" to call Mike for an answer, as I am not an engineer, and do not want the liability of digging closer to the house, with the possibility of compromising the structure of the dwelling (please see letter "c" stated above, as this issue was a contradiction of that).
After a meeting with Mike, again, I informed him that I needed better communication moving forward, and reiterated my issues with egress windows (prior install debacle with another company), and that poor communication is something I feel is unprofessional. He agreed.
As the job went on daily, I always offered water for the workers, and checked in periodically to see the process for myself. I started to notice very unprofessional tendencies from the workers. One morning, I was in my kitchen. To get my attention, they threw something at my window, instead of walking 6 ft to the door, knocking, and talking to me. I also noticed that one of the workers had a cold, and watched him drop a used snot rag on the ground. I figured this was a mistake, but he walked passed it uncountable amount of times. I ended up picking it up hours later. At the end of the job, my back yard was littered with soiled tissues, and cigarette butts (I live in a non-cigarette-smoking house), empty pop bottles and even a broke shovel they left behind (see letter "b" above. Another contradiction). They did come back to clean, but did not pick up all of the cigarette butts, left a pop bottle a broken shovel and soiled tissues on the property. I took care of cleaning up their mess. Unprofessional.
I later received an invoice when the job was "complete". Unfortunately, my carpet that was ripped up from the basement from interior digging, was not put back properly. I did inform Mike about this, and he did rectify the issue, as I informed him that I would love to pay for the job once the carpet was complete. I also informed him that the sprinkler heads on the side of my property were buried from the job. He informed me that his company does not cover sprinkler issues, (yet he seemed to have the issues fixed for others, pointed out in reviews on other sites) even if they were his companies fault (see letter "a". This was just a lie, either way, at some point). The sprinkler system has been completely destroyed. My sprinkler contractor seemed to use the term "malicious intent" when describing the destroyed system.LAME! read more