Pierce & Assoc Builders LLC

This builder did not do what was discussed.  The Project Manager and the owner got into a disagreement, so our job was ignored.  We now have to spend twice what we've paid to fix the problems, and the builder/owner is acting like a bully.  DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY OR ANYONE AFFILIATED WITH THEM.

It was (and is) a catastrophe. We hired this company to create a daylight basement with patio at our home.  The estimated cost was $21,000, and we gave $2500 as down payment.  They were also supposed to remodel an upstairs bathroom, so we gave a $1500 down payment on that job.  The basement was scheduled to be done by Thanksgiving 2012.  They didn't even pour concrete until early December, which is the same time the Project Manager, Daryl Guse, left town and took another job 3 1/2 hours away.  He now works at Walmart as a shift manager.  Never were we informed he'd left the company, and the crew simply plugged along guessing at what we might want instead of confessing Daryl left and that they needed to revisit the project.  The owner sent a final bill before the job was done -- there wasn't even hardware on the doors and window yet!  Bill Pierce came out and asked we simply pay him and that he was not going to do the upstairs bathroom and was not going to finish the downstairs project.  The amount of cost to us to make right what was done wrong is going to be twice what Mr. Pierce wants us to pay him.  We will have to tear out concrete walls and put them in the correct location, remove dirt and rock that was put in the wrong place, and tear up the patio floor that was put down wrong and with the wrong material.  His insistence on sticking his head in the sand instead of taking responsibility has left us with no choice but to hire a lawyer to get his attention.  He has hired a debt collector instead of an actual attorney to simply get us to pay.  We've offered to let him simply walk away and leave us to fix the problems on our own, which will cost us much more than anticipated when we hired him.  He can even keep the $4,000!  Hopefully he will be wise enough to do this and not engage in a drawn-out trial.  No one wants that -- let's just move on in a positive direction.

I was quite pleased with him.  He is very professional, honest, educated and cooperative.  He is flexible to work on new ideas and concepts.  He does a high quality work.  He was the first contractor in Helena to install radon dissipation system in a stick built house.