Infinity General Contracting LLXC

We had a major interior flood in our home in early September 2021. Our insurance company gave us several choices on how to oversee the subsequent claim and we choose their option of a ‘Single-Point-Of-Contact-Contractor’ who in turn would manage the repair and restoration from “A” -to- “Z.” That company is Gulf Coast Restoration & Construction/GCR&C ([*** Link removed ***] We had four flooring areas in our home that was damaged, and we elected to replace the wood flooring and carpet areas with tile. After the tile was installed the base boards that were torn out needed to be replaced and whatever walls they were attached to require to be repaired and painted. GCR&C sub-contracted with Infinity General Contracting, LLC from Clearwater, FL whose Manager, Mr. Mark T. Lavelle personally took the assignment. Of particular note, Mr. James Vaughn, who is the assigned Project Manager for GCR&C has two sub-contractors he uses for this type of work and the originally assigned company, just before the work was to start had an emergency and could not do the work; Mr. Vaughn personally conferred with Mr. Lavelle and despite our location not being in the area Mr. Lavelle normally works, agreed to the 1.5 hour daily commute/one-way in order to get our project and our home back to what it was the day before the flood. There is a saying from my childhood where in my mother was noted to be a “Jack of All Trades and Master of None;” well, Mr. Mark T. Lavelle is a “Jack of Many Trades and a Master of All of Them”! As a licensed General Contractor and working in the industry since he was thirteen years old his experience is vast, and his work ethic is nothing like we have ever seen before, and I include my 30-years in the oil/gas industry. Furthermore, Mr. Lavelle was to have another team member with him but due to circumstances beyond his control the team member was unavailable, instead of delaying the required work Mr. Lavelle took on the task single handedly. Knowing it was going to take up to four days to complete Mr. Lavelle planned it so that the furniture was moved to the middle, everything removed from the walls to include electrical coverings, and then he started painting. Usually you see a lot of “taping” but Mr. Lavelle’s skill set is so way beyond that requirement – to put it bluntly, Mr. Lavelle is not a painter but an artist, I have never seen anyone do what he can do and there is no mess, there was no spilt paint, there was no requirement to wipe paint up off of the newly installed tile, and there was no waste of paint; which was important because we upgraded to the best Sherman Williams had to offer. As he moved through the damaged areas Mr. Lavelle noticed areas that had additional damage from the mitigation work that was done and addressed those areas to ensure they were made right. Of note, he advised us that two of the solid wood cabinets that were installed in 2014 were improperly installed and were close to collapsing, which allowed us to remove and save from destruction antique/non-replaceable dishware. Furthermore, Mr. Lavelle showed us what was wrong and what the installing company needs to do to fix the problem. Mr. Lavelle accurate measuring skills made the baseboards look fantastic to include customizing a large mirror wall baseboard coupled with the quick installation. Mr. Lavelle recognized the medical issue my wife suffers from coupled with my physical limitations and recommended getting a professional cleaner in our home given the excessive dust that was created by the mitigation efforts, the removal of the wood floors, the removal of the carpets, and installing the tile floors. We made the request, received approval, and it turned out that Ms. Sandra Lavelle is a professional cleaner. Like her husband, a true perfectionist in her work. When Sandra was finished it did not look like the same house; the bar mirror and two chandeliers have never looked so good, the wood on the sofas, chairs, end tables, China cabinet, hutch, and antique desk has the deep, clean wood appearance and simply stated, when Sandra was finished, the house looked great! The bottom line, while our interior flood in early September caused extreme havoc in our home, because Mr. Vaughn of GCR&C has access to consummate professionals like Mr. Mark Lavelle and Ms. Sandra Lavelle who did an outstanding job on getting our house better than it was before the flood we now will be able to celebrate the upcoming holiday season in the comfort of our own home. We have three rooms that were not affected by the flood, and one requires a modification and all three need to be painted in order to be inline with the rest of the house; we are contracting with Mr. Mark Lavelle’s company to make the house perfect and that is happening because we have access to Professionals who not only work as you would expect Professionals to work but who also have and show the attitude that our house is their house when they are here to make it better than it was!