This contractor charged us high rates for poor materials, poor construction (would not pass code) and shoddy workmanship on the sunroom addition he put on our house. He had a permit for foundation only, but proceeded to build the entire room against the inspection office permission, telling us verbally that everything was fine. He told us the room was not failing inspections, when it was, & thereby saying he required more & more payments. Blacksburg Home Improvement finally abandoned the construction project completely eight months after they first agreed to complete the job (five months and three months after additional extensions).
After Blacksburg Home Improvement abandoned the job, the county inspection office required us to hire an engineer for remedial plans for the unstable, failing foundation. We then hired another contractor to do the additional foundation work, work on both the interior and exterior, including the removal of the siding & putting house wrap & sealing the addition (which hadn't been done properly). Then we had to have the siding on the entire west wall of main house removed&Blacksburg Home Improvement had previously removed it all, including the house wrap, but replaced it with neither the house wrap, nor even nails to hold the siding on. We live in an area of 60 mph winter winds&the siding was literally breaking & falling off the wall two stories up. The shoddy work doubled our heating bill & made the house extremely uncomfortable.
Blacksburg Home Improvement had done several jobs for us in the past; we thought the proprietor, Alex Guest was trustworthy, which is obviously not so. Unfortunately, we'd also recommended him to several of our friends, who had nightmare experiences, as well. It has cost us more than $18k to bring our sunroom up to code and another $2k in repairs to make it liveable & that's just a start. It will take much more to bring it into line with the rest of the house&which is just an average house.
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