Corbin Construction

Beautiful job, very nice guys. I want him to build a house for me.

It went terribly. The tiled showers looked so bad and would have required $4000.00 custom doors so that we ripped them out--that is when we found he had nailed the rubber membranes down to the shower floor and had not connected the drain to the house plumbing, that way the water could drain into the crawl space under the house. They also tiled over an electrical junction box. The grout job left huge gaps and was not completely washed off so it was staining the tile, which was one reason we decided to check underneath the work. Thankfully we did or we would not have known about the membranes or the drains. The benches they had built in tilted backwards so water would collect on them and seep thru the terrible gout. The shut off valves to the vanities were already 30 years old and were not touched during the installation of new vanities-which meant they became inaccessible and practically nonfunctional.Amazing they would not replace the plumbing! The light fixtures were installed crookedly and asymmetrically into the original openings of the old--so they were not centered over the the sinks at all. The kitchen tile was placed directly on top of the old linoleum so it was 1/2 inch above the wood floor-no attempt was made to wash off the grout so it remains with a cloudy film. And so now the stove is 1/2 inch above the granite countertop. Did I mention the electrical wire dangling in a pantry leading up to the new kitchen exhaust fan? Or the total mess he left in the house with sawdust and trash everywhere? And the bill I paid when he promised all the work would be done by the time his check arrived- Not!! The deck was repaired using too small hangers and zinc roofing nails instead of galvanized bolts--this at an additional$8000 to do it "right". The pickets were asymmetrical and not regularly spaced even completely nailed. I really feel foolish in trusting him -never thinking he was not getting permits or performing the work according to code. Or that he was doing the construction in such a dangerous way.. We could have had mold and or electrical fires as a result of their negligence. I am really appalled at the audacity of the really rotten construction-obviously they did not care about quality or have a concern about safety, or think that anyone would ever question the methods they used. Total disappointment! Please avoid him like the plague! How a seemingly nice guy could take your money and give horrible workmanship in return is beyond me, but live and learn--hopefully if we share enough about our experiences he will decide to look up his code book and start to do things correctly. Just don't pay him while he is learning!

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