
Carpenters
About us
I started at 16 yrs. old and I'm 44 now. I've been doing business in Sedalia Missouri now for over 16 yrs., with 28 yrs. exp. in all areas of new construction & repairing, from the ground up, residential or commercial. A Finish Carpenter with experience in interior design & installation. It’s like having an Electric company, a Plumbing company, a Flooring company, a Roofing company, a Siding company, a Landscaping company, a Fence company, a Guttering company, a Decking company & Window & Door companies all rolled into one.
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Services we offer
& we back i, Residential and commercial home remodeling, and from putting in counter tops to installing cabinets, and your project will be with your family for many years to come. Yes, building in new construction or repairing, carpentry, interior & exterior construction. We've done kitchens & bathrooms, new faucets to full remodels, residential or commercial, we are that proud of our work, we know we are building your dream. Now match that with our quality, we know we are building your project
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Free Estimates
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"Thanks you Member... Do let me know how it held up I'm intrested also if the brand names do as they say they will... Always a pleasure... Duke"
He told me he would be over on a Monday to start the project but he did not come for another 12 days and didn’t even show up on time. I was told all of the delays were due to a different project that he was working on. He came back a different day to finish installing the remaining doors; he didn’t show up on time that day either. My husband went home at lunch to see how things were going. Duke was outside and did not come in for 30 minutes. When he did, he only asked to use my husband's phone because his got shut off or some sort of issue. After Duke was done using it he went back outside so my husband just left after another 15 minutes. I got home from work and all of the doors had been installed. The last part was for him to add a deadbolt to a door and cleanup. He knew there was a deadbolt that needed to be installed but he did not have the right tools so my husband let him borrow one of his own. He put in the deadbolt and went downstairs to the garage to cleanup. I noticed after he left my house there was a hole in the door near the deadbolt and he left an old door in the garage that he should have taken with him. I can't say for sure that he did see the hole, but it seems impossible not to considering he would have been eye to eye with it as he came up the stairs and also, that door had been installed for 4 days and there was not a hole in it, until the dead bolt was installed anyway. As far as the old door he did not take with him, he told me he must have just and quot;forgottenand quot; it. Later in the week when we were trying to setup a time for him to replace the door with the hole, he changed his story and said he was possibly driving illegal with all of the other old doors in the back of his truck and that’s why he left the one in the garage. Integrity is a huge thing with me and he proved to have none after that. My husband was not happy with his work and did not care to be at the house when Duke came back to change out the door. He also did not want to be there because Duke was so rude when he went to check on him during lunch. When I told Duke certain times would not work because my husband didn’t want to be at the house when he was, Duke got irate. He started yelling at me on the phone, talking in circles, saying my husband should be able to handle himself, called him a word that I will not repeat here, etc. I found it ironic that as Duke is yelling at me, he's the one that can't even handle himself, a businessman. 50 minutes later we finally worked out a time and Duke came to change out the door. Once again, he still did not have the right tools to put the deadbolt in. Needless to say it did not get put in but I did get the money for the labor of the deadbolt back.
Now onto his workmanship...he put a nickel size dent in my wall. When I pointed it out he moved on to a different subject. He banged up the trim on one door and had no intentions of replacing it. The only reason he did was because he had to come back to replace the door with the hole and had leftover trim from the casing of that door; Lowes gave us a new door with no charge to anyone. There was paint chipped off the wall in the main bedroom. He did not clean up after himself. I found big staples on the ground which could be bad if stepped on and there was also chunks of drywall and other debris left in several areas of the house. Several doors had trim that did not come together in the corners and were not flush with the walls. He knocked 3 tiles off the wall when removing the bathroom door and did not attempt to put them back on. He also installed some of his nails crooked and they are poking through the trim. All three of the doors into our bedrooms did not sit level and would slowly swing shut on their own. He said that he couldn't fix this and he just blamed it on the age of the house; his same excuse for many other issues that were brought to his attention. My husband spent 5 minutes on fixing them and now all of them stay open on their own. He said from the start that he would come back and fix anything that we weren't happy with but at this point it is just easier to fix ourselves and not have to deal with Carpenters anymore.
It seems as if he takes on too many projects, more than a business with one employee can handle.
Worked with my crazy schedule.
"Thank you Members for hiring Duke E. Lake dba Carpenters, always a pleasure... Duke"
Friends had told me about work Mr Lake had done for them. With such a good reference I decided to call him for an estimate and ecxplain the work I needed to be done on the interior and exterior of my home. Previous owners had a fire in the living room and sold the house as is. Mr. Lake gave me a complete list of all the work that neede to be done, cost of the repairs and guarantees on the work. Things progressed as he told me and when the work was done, to my satisfaction, I then hired his company to do other work that I had planned to do on the house. His crew was polite, carefull, hardworking, and professional. I would not hesitate to hire Carpenters again if and when I needed his services.
Sincerely,
Albert Licence
"Thank you Member for hiring Duke E. Lake dba Carpenters, always a pleasure... Duke"
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