We hired Renaissance Builders for an addition to our home. The Excavators did a very fine job and I have no complaints whatsoever about that portion of the business. The building contractor side is another story: some subcontractors were good, others not. And the Renaissance employee overseeing the project who was also the lead carpenter was unconcerned about quality. This was a time and materials contract, but on quite a few occasions I had to fight to have things redone because the work was not done well nor correctly (the wood floor, in particular). Following the blue prints were a suggestion in their mind. I could go on and on: when I insisted that they install the correct threshold, they finally did but then nailed it in severing the wire for the radiant heat flooring. Now half of the addition has radiant heat, the other half doesn't. When they found some rot on the sill of the older portion of the house they repaired that, but then left all the rot on the framing, failed to point it out and then covered it up and resided the wall, leaving the rot in place. Why? Insisting that there were no replacement skylights, but they could replace the glass (the seal between the panes had broken and they were foggy.) 9 months later their repair failed, now leaking rain into the house. When I insisted that they fix this problem, it was found that, indeed, there were standard Velux skylights that fit. By now it is winter and I had to pay a premium for that work to be done.
In sum, I would suggest that there are many builders out there that care about the quality of the work they do and take pride in their work. Renaissance is not one of them. read more