Let me start out by saying that at first, we were impressed with Ryan's initial communication and…read morehis talk of his work ethic.
However, we quickly learned that his reliability and workmanship on this large scale project was less than desirable.
I cannot tell you the number of times he said he was showing up to work, only to no show. It would be days and weeks before we heard from him. Meaning that this took far longer than it should have.
He set a date of 10/2/24 to begin working on the footings. Family emergencies, no shows followed, but finally he got footings dug 10/12/24. Poured footings 10/15. Then came
more family emergencies and equipment issues.
When we FINALLY got to the point of pouring the main concrete slab, which didn't happen until 11/1/24, he required us to pay him in full BEFORE he'd pour. Reluctantly, we did pay, but were uncomfortable doing so since the job was nowhere close to being done.
It was not until 11/16/24 that he returned to finish pouring the rest of the concrete.
There are issues with the workmanship. The quality control was severely lacking.
After the floor was poured, the forms pushed out in several areas leaving the sides of the foundation looking horrible and lopsided. (Pictures can be provided). There are several spots in the floor that are uneven. At this point just for us to be able to set beams, concrete has to be cut out for everything to be level. After the pour, there were huge chunks of concrete around the slab that set up that needed to be cleaned up.
On 11/22/24, we texted to see when he would come backfill the slab, remove the forms, and pick up their trash. No response. We texted again 12/4/24. He responded and said he'd be here 12/7/24. No show. Finally, on 12/30/24 he responded. By then, WE had removed all of the forms ourselves , cleaned up their trash, and had hired someone else to backfill so that it could get done.
Initially, Ryan said that start to finish, he could have this job done in 2 weeks.
As seen by the timeline above, which we have documented and date stamped via text messages, it took over 1.5 months, for the footings, forms, and concrete work to get done. More than 3 months passed since the start of the project, and he did not finish the job. We waited through sporadic communication, and no shows, and finally did what we needed to do to proceed with our project.