Leister Construction LLC

We did not have a good experience with Leister Construction at all.  He did not even put up a sign in our yard to advertise his work.  That should have been a red flag. 
There is no detailed plan by Jason.  I never felt he spent enough time in our kitchen to figure out how this was going to go.  We gave him our floor plan and he just muddled through it. Our supervisor, James, had to take all the heat but he did his best and we were thankful for him.
DO get a detailed schedule. We asked and asked for one.  Finally got one but it was not followed.  According to that, our house was to be finished October 16th.   Keep your own book keeping. Their gal is so out of it that she would send us incorrect bills and even sent a message telling us the project is complete and expected final payment.  We had not even had a walk through because there were lingering items left undone or not in satisfactory condition. We also heard from a mutual friend that Jason was telling her that we were behind in our payments and paying him.  We were irrate because that was not true and how unprofessional of him to talk about clients to a 3rd party. Hold out money until the end when you either think things are complete or you just want to be done with the nightmare.  Our phase 2 will be with a well qualified, professional company that we respect. 

The work began on Thursday, November 3rd.  Leister Construction employs superb craftspeople. The carpenter, for example, noticed that the panels that had cracks in it would probably not stand up to the sanding process. He asked for permission to remove the panels and replace them with hand made panels. He replaced the damaged panels with new panels made out of ash and were mitred and carved so that they would match the remaining panels. I was speechless when I saw the completed work. The carpenter’s work was meticulous. I couldn’t tell the difference, when the door was finished, between the repaired and the original panels. The carpenter was finished by the end of Thursday, right on schedule.   The painter came on Friday morning; he primed the door carefully and left it to dry over the weekend. The painting was completed on Monday; then he returned on Tuesday to finish touching up the door, attach the new weather stripping, and clean up the in set windows. Both workmen were careful not to track dirt or paint into the house. They both cleaned up the area so that there was nothing left for me to do. And the painter returned on Friday after the job was finished to make sure that there wasn’t anything else that I needed to have done. They were friendly and easy to work with.   The “new” door (it really looks new) cost $941.50.  The work was worth every penny. I would hire Mr. Leister to make other repairs to my house in a heartbeat, and am already thinking about asking him to repair my stucco.