Mike And Sons Construction

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• WhoDoYou Review from March 12, 2019
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  Shareque H. wrote: I had to fire Mike 7 months into my 868 sq.ft. mobile home remodel project because he just could not do the job. Mike had told me that the job would take less than 2 months when I hired him. He seemed credible and confident but turned out that Mike did not have the knowledge, organization or skill to do the job. Rather than get help for jobs he had no knowledge how to do, he simply avoided them hoping I would give up on them. For instance, I wanted to relocate 2 air conditioning registers 3 feet from their original location. When the time came to move them he told me that he would “do it tomorrow” and over 2 month made up random excuses as to why he had to postpone it; I finally hired an AC service man who completed the job within an hour. Mike could not follow the written instructions or You Tube tutorials describing Johnson pocket door installation. I had to take a day off work to install them as he watched me. I also had to teach him how to build a shower after I had to teach myself. Mike installed my new hot water heater sideways. I still don’t understand what his rationale was except that he didn’t want to re-frame the heater area. He told me “I don’t see why you can’t” when I asked him if the heater could be sideways. When I told him that Rheem’s support line said you absolutely could NOT install it sideways he abandoned me saying “you better do what the manufacturer says” and never returned a call since. I uprighted the water heater but now I have a garden hose spigot that runs hot water. Mike finally installed the shiplap ceiling satisfactorily, but needed twice the material we had calculated because he did it wrong on his first try. Not a single wall he rebuilt is plumb, no corner square and no outlet is the same level off the floor. He forgot to install an outlet behind the fridge. On the days that Mike actually worked he was disorganized enough to waste a large part of his day looking for misplaced tools and then wound up using mine. He took some of them with him when he left the jobsite – I’m not sure if he stole them or just forgot whose tool was whose, but either is not a quality one desires in their contractor. Likewise, his mismanagement of materials like drywall, wood and hardware was so poor that I ended up buying $2000 worth of duplicate material. The “Sons” part of “Mike and Sons” is indeed a boy. He’s a 15 year old who wassupposed to be home schooled but was at my house “working” all day. His job was to clean up and help move heavy items but the job site was a disorganized mess with materials left to ruin outside in the weather; I watched him damage walls, ceiling, floors and building materials with his carelessness and my ShopVac no longer works. Mike’s 2 daughters, both of whom are younger than 10 years of age spent the Summer around the job site playing amongst the stacks of material, dust and power tools. In front of Mike I had to ask them to stop popping the bubble wrap protecting new cabinets and to stop spinning around on my patio bar stools while playing tag. He was juggling babysitting and my remodel project and couldn’t focus on the job at hand. During the remodeling project, the restrooms were out of service. I saw the 15 year old urinating behind my neighbor’s shed. There was a 5 gallon bucket filled with feces left on my BBQ deck for at least a month. My driveway and lawn still has had hundreds of cigarette butts, nails and shards of glass and tile scattered over it. Six months into the job, Mike kept lamenting “I have to get out of this job” to my face. When I sub-contracted the granite and installation of the vinyl plank floor and a shower he undermined those sub-contractors by complaining to them about the job. I paid Mike extra for the electrical and plumbing work that was beyond the scope of the initial remodeling. Mike agreed that he would complete those jobs, however, he refused to return my calls when I informed him that the hot water heater and other outlets were without power and the garden hose spigot running hot water.

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• Referral from May 25, 2015
  

  Madelyne H. asked:

  Looking for someone that knows how to fix water wells? Thanks in advance.

  

  Michael B. replied:

  We can help 361-482-8289

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