Awful work, lazy crew of below average intelligence coupled with slick sales people make this THE worst possible choice you can make for a remodeling job in Westchester, NY. Pay extra for a top notch firm that stands behind their work. This isn't it.
The first thing you'll be told when speaking to these people is that they have a very precise project plan. They'll drag you upstairs in their shack of an office to show you a Gantt chart as a means of telling you how amazing they are at project management. Anyone who has run a business or even a project knows that the chart is not anything -- it's the the actual day-to-day management of the project that counts. I should have taken this as a warning and walked away. I didn't not and here is the consequence:
Project Management:
If you ignore my advice and hire these clowns, you will be the unpaid project manager. The project manager for our job was non-existent. We never met him and never saw him. My wife was the project manager, coordinating the various subcontractors, hiring the dumpster, coordinating deliveries, etc.
Workmanship
There is none. Their crew does not seem to understand what a right angle is. As you can see from the photos, they cannot hang a shower rack, a faucet, a light switch or an access panel at right angles. Speaking of access panels they put NINE huge access panels in an 8x8 room. They have no sense of aesthetics or workmanship. In short they just don't care. They seem to have hired a bunch of dead-end losers who get paid no matter what
Plumbing and Drywall -- Incompetence doesn't describe...
None of their workmen were worth much. I have to particularly call out plumbing and drywall work. As you can see in the pictures, the drywall was so horrible, the painters that we hired had to spend two DAYS covering up their sloppy, slipshod work. How hard is it to cut some piece of sheetrock and have them line up? For remodeling consultants it's really really difficult. Their plumbers BROKE our washing machine drainage tube leading to leaks on the floor of our basement. They incorrectly installed the basement shower. Jerry and their so-called service department were unresponsive. I called in an actual plumber to repair the problem - it took them 10 minutes to fix it. These clowns don't even test their work.
Electricity
After their electrition got through screwing up our electrical system. I had to hire some actual professionals to get the circuit breakers to keep from tripping and to pass inspection. Thank goodness for Keating Electric.
Junk Left Behind
In spite of the fact that they insisted that we rent a dumpster, these slobs left 5 bags of concrete, tons of wood and loads of parts and debris in my garage.
Jerry and Peter
Jerry is the owner. He has no follow-up. He does not stand by is company's work - I reached out to him about the plumbing issue. He did not follow through. All of the behaviors noted above come to the top. The work ethic is despicable.
Peter Sikora
He's supposedly an "design consultant". He's just an empty suit that is after the most expedient design that will get the team to the next job. He possesses very little creativity, insight or foresight.
What's quite telling about these two is that they never once asked for feedback on how the job went - Well here it is, boys. Enjoy.
Gimme Gimme
The 'foreman' Yuri is a very nice guy. Professionally he's an excuse-making disaster. The one thing he did consistently is aggressively demand payment even though I never missed a payment, he badgered us for checks before they were do and regardless of the trail of fails he and his crew left behind. I was so sick and tired of these people, I just wanted them gone. read more