We hired Twa Construction to build our 1,344 sq. ft. house on our property. They were to do everything from plans to completion. It didn't go well.
We gave Twa $10,000.00 up front. The project got as far as a hole in the ground and some footings. Unfortunately, Twa had started building THE WRONG HOUSE, so the footings were wrong. It was possible to use a portion of the footings by splicing in repairs. I checked with the inspector to see how splices should be done and emailed the instructions to Twa. Unfortunately they did the splices wrong, and didn't have the city inspect them before they poured the cement like they were supposed to. I met with the building inspector and Twa at the site, listened to Twa scream for a while, and fired him.
He's hard to get rid of though, because he won't admit his mistakes. He hasn't refunded any of our money, and has presented us with an inflated final bill that was just enough over the $10k we had paid for him to be able to put a lein on our property.
When we started the project with a new builder, I thought it would be a good idea to double check the location of the foundation footings on the property. Turned out Twa had not only started building the wrong house, he put it in the WRONG PLACE. He forgot to include the roof overhangs in his calculations, so the house is 9" over where it should be on its South and East sides. What a mess.
Now we can't use any of the footings. They'll have to busted up and hauled away. The soil will have to be compacted, and new footings poured IN THE CORRECT LOCATION.
I might as well have burned my $10,000.00 instead of giving it to Twa.
I certainly can't recommend this builder to anyone. One thing I learned is that no matter what a builder wants up front, don't give them any more than they need for a week's worth of work. read more