Solimine Contracting LLC

The 1st floor renovation and kitchen project went quickly, smoothly and within projected budget. The only change orders were electrical and lighting based and requested by us. The project managers were attentive to our concerns and corrected any oversights. Can highly recommend Solimine. New doors, new moulding, new lights, new cabinets and new paint. The finished product is beautiful.

Very well. Moved at lightning speed

It went well, easy to work with and reliable. I love my bathroom.

Our bathroom design came out spectacular. The work was completed as promised.

Over the moon happy with my bathroom remodel. It was exactly what I wanted and more. The Solimine team provided lots of suggestions to allow me to work in some additional elements like a pocket & barn door and a redesign of my linen closet. I needed help with the design and fine tuning my vision, Jonna was very knowledgeable and was able to point me in the right direction. I was thrilled with the craftsmanship and the project as a whole. This was my second project with the Solimine team and cannot wait for my 3rd.

It was good, great, everything went very well. We used them few times aleady.

It was really good.

From start to finish the job was a mess. I met with them and they seemed professional and the price was good so I hired them. I was to purchase the windows and supplies, and they would do the installation when they arrived. So special ordered the windows, picked up all the supplies, called them to start the job. A 2 day delay then a call "we can't do it, the height you want them installed is too high" - mind you I did have the person out to give me a quote and I told him it was pretty high which is why I wouldn't do it. I even showed it to him and he said "no problem". Discussion with owner since I now had the supplies and the custom ordered windows in the garage and finally they agree to come out and do it. I've done most of the wok on the attic myself so I spoke with the building inspector about the window headers - I sent them an email, spoke to them, handed a copy of the email I sent to the worker who came out to do work and I walked around and gave him a walk-through and spoke to him. All to make certain they understood I had spoken with the building inspector and the headers over the windows needed to be done a certain way. (4 - 2x4's instead of 2 - 2x6's) Day 1 I come home - the headers are done incorrectly (photo attached). Not just differently than I had suggested, but done in a way that would never pass any inspection. A header normally requires 2x6's or 2x8's across the top of the window onto the uprights for support. Since I had a thick wall I had approval for 4 - 2X4's instead of the 2x6's. But they ignored that and put one 2x4 as the header, and then cut down some of my 2x10's above it (cut down so far they did not actually rest on the uprights - thus giving no support). So had them come out to fix that after discussion again. When they did I handed them a drip guard to go over the window since one was a double and Anderson provided it and said it is necessary over any double or more window. Day 2 I come home, the boards are all nail-gunned in and they split pretty much every single 2x4 and 2x6 they used doing it (photo also attached). So I removed the broken ones and replaced them - out of my own pocket since at least I would do the work correctly. 2 days later job finally finishes and I'm cleaning up their mess and hey, why is the drip guard in a closet and not on the window. weeks of arguing with the owner, I've spent hours on the phone with Anderson windows and have gotten the reply "any time you have 2 or more windows like that you must use the drip guard". So finally we are at 1 and a half months after the job was supposed to be done (they called it a 2 day job) I finally get them out to finish the last of the work. And as a kicker I get an email from them - "we had to buy extra nails for the project, so please pay us the $150 for them". My reply (as I had said with every other supply I had bought for them) "Certainly, as I said, leave me the extra since I have a lot of work left to do in the attic and I'll gladly pay for the box" (I know they had used less than 1/3 of the box since I saw it the day they came out to pick up their materials.) They ended up dropping the $150 for the nails when they realized I wasn't paying for nails for them to use on other jobs. But to have the gall to try and charge me $150 for nails they took with them when they used less than $50 of them on the job on top of all the mistakes. I'm just glad I didn't have them do the sheetrocking as well on this or I would have had no idea how badly they cut corners on the project.

I have a beautiful home now

Do not make last payment until all work done !!!!! $1300.00 worth of damage to my Brazilian cherry floors, during full kitchen reno and some tiling in living room. Contractor said he would fix. I have two piles of wood in my office that are the wrong size. Damaged wood held together by blue tape for over 2 months now during the holidays. Contractor no longer returns calls nor texts. My floor guy called me and told me contractor yelled at him that repair estimate was too high. I also came home to a kitchen blind that was ruined and would no longer open and they never even mentioned it, probably hoping I would not notice it. Meanwhile I spent over $30,000 on kitchen reno and have another $40,000 to $60,000 I wanted to do with them. I was also left with an unfinished wood ceiling border that separates kitchen space from living room. Looks awful. I have been waiting months for the repair. I will admit, i gave contractor too much time to fix due to the relationship i thought existed but that left me with damaged floors and an unfinished ceiling border and just like my friends and relatives, a bad story to tell.

I was not very impressed with the contractor's professionalism. He was rude and condescending and tried to up-sell the job by making certain repairs seem more severe than they were. In fact, his attitude was so poor that even my real estate agent, who had provided access to the property since it was prior to close, commented on it afterwards. Given my own knowledge of construction practices, the engineer's report on the property, and an assessment done by another (well-trusted) contractor, I was able to compare the somewhat alarmist account he gave me to the actual repairs needed. He promised to follow up with a price quote and never sent one. I can't comment on the quality of work provided by the company, but as an investor with a constant stream of fairly large projects, I know I won't be calling them in the future!

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Rick and company exceeded my expectations. On time and on budget! Beautiful work and professionalism. Up front and honest. Workers polite and friendly.

Rick & Mark develop a solid plan for a new master bathroom and then improved that design. The result was a fabulous bathroom that has exceeded our expectations. I would highly recommend Solimine contracting.

The finished product is excellent - better construction than the original builder! Their design work for the room was creative and practical and they followed through exactly as designed. Mark and Rick were flexible - open to our ideas for changing the original plans and modifying their design. Before they started, Rick walked us through the house so that we could remove pictures from the wall to reduce the chance of damage as they ripped off the existing roof. Their preparation work had a big roll off dumpster in the driveway right on time with the tear down work cleaned up at the end of each days work. Once they had the roof off they covered the exposed area with a giant tarp to protect the exposed attic. The quality of their framing and finish woodwork is topnotch. They custom-built storage cabinets along one wall under a long window seat and created a new attic space for storage. They managed the installation work to extend the HVAC into the new space. Mark even built a small table for us with the left-over granite that we used for the counter tops. Throughout all the work, they combined creativity and quality. We are very happy with the finished product as well as the entire process from initial contract discussion through installation. Today, they are starting another project for us to remodel our back patio with a new roof and patio extension for a hot tub and firepit. We recommend them without reservation.

The unprofessionalism of the two workers, Rich & Herb, was astounding. One the 1st day of demolition, they made no effort to protect our furniture or rugs from all of the sheet rock dust, etc. We were not even advised to cover things with plastic. After the initial mess, we spent at least $200 in plastic coverings and carpet protectors. After a few days of work, we noticed saw dust on our dining room floor and realized that these men were using our dining room table to cut wood off of! The new vanity, toliet, tub, etc. were NOT supposed to be stored in our townhouse (we told them we didn't have a garage) but alas, our jacuzzi tub sat in our dining room for several weeks. The other furniture filled our spare bedroom. I came home early from work one day to find our TV on and blasting country music! Their excuse was that their radio couldn't pick up the country music station signal. Even after we hid the remote, they were STILL turning on the TV so we had to complain to Lowe's. The contractor in charge of these 2 guys was never on site to check on their work or to supervise them. That became our job. The dumpster that was placed outside of our house in the parking lot was supposed to be on wood so it wouldn't damage the blacktop. No wood was placed and the blacktop was indeed dented. One of the men continually washed his plaster and paint filled hands in our KITCHEN sink! Despite the sign I put up asking him not to! Their work was slow and filled with mistakes. They had to redo the niches in the hall bath shower over twice because they kept placing the top niche 4 inches away from the ceiling. The toilet in that bathroom was also installed incorrectly - the ring underneath never expanded correctly so we ended up with flooding. The masterbath was the ultimate worst, however. The workers neglected to pay attention to where the electrical wall outlets were placed originally. When they put them back, they were in ridiculous places! You would walk into the bath room and the switch to turn the light on was about 20 inches away from the door. They argued with us about changing it because the wall had already been put up & painted. After much insisting on our part, it was moved but the wall shows evidence of it. The paint job is lumpy and you can still see where they had placed the outlet box. Also in the masterbath, the vanity mirror is about 4 inches too high. It's ok because I'm tall, but if the next owner of this house is short he/she will most likely only be able to see their eyes in that mirror. The most incredible mistake that was made was that they glued the back of the sink and installed the sink vanity (which is about 1 inch away from t he wall) WITHOUT PAINTING THE WALL FIRST! The workers told us that the painter had a special tool for tight spaces. Nonsense! When the painter arrived he was perplexed has to how he was going to paint. Honestly, the paint job in the master bath looks like a 3rd grader's work in some spots. During their work on the master bath, my husband & I were getting up a 1/2 hr earlier for work so we could place the protective plastic on things in our bedroom. This included my clock radio which I was taking off of my night table and placing in an empty garbage can. I have my alarm clock radio set to FM 88.3 jazz - always. One night I went to turn it on to fall asleep and country music came blasting out of my radio on FULL VOLUME! It really unnerved me that these me were snooping around our bedroom looking for a radio. When the work was finally finished - AFTER 6 WEEKS (we were told 3 weeks). They left their "Final Project" in horrible condition - there was a coffee cup in the jacuzzi tub, the jacuzzi tub was not plugged in, paint drops were on the toilet seat, the shower curtain rod, the johnny cabinet, and the floor. We ended up complaining to the regional manager of Lowe's and received a refund of a little over $2,000. Lowe's should be ashamed of themselves for working with such inept idiots!

I was never contacted.

They did not complete the job. They didn't inform me that they do skylight under certain circumstances. They did not follow through with the satisfaction guarantee. They are very unprofessional and gave personal threats.

I called several weeks ago and made an appointment with this company. A few minutes later, after seeing some spotty reviews online, I called back and canceled. Today, I got a voicemail from them canceling their appointment -- saying that my estimator couldn't make it. He came today when we weren't at the house and measured the roof for replacement, and could send me an estimate by e-mail. But... we weren't originally asking for a roof repair estimate, we were asking for a consultation that would involve checking to see if we needed a repair OR replacement, and then the quote for their recommended work. They close at 4pm on Fridays, by the way -- she let me know "We close in three minutes" when I was speaking to her. Edit: Changed services to "no" per the contractor's request, which is fair.

Perfect and on time.