J NEVILLE CONSTRUCTION INC

Note - bullet points are used to detail using only 3K characters: Project begins with meetings with Jerry Neville (JN), owner. ? We give JN a rough design of porch along with $100 quote fee ? JN assurs he has experience and can work with partial design. ? JN returns w/ initial offer and we pay $1500 retainer. Contract signed. ? Before porch, roof needs replacement, JN recommends Kevin?s Custom Carpentry (KCC). ? Quoted and contract signed. Roof replaced by KCC ? crew professional and efficient. Strange for us ? KCC (roofer) transitions into porch job. ? JN informs Kevin Berghold (KCC owner) is master carpenter. ? Job was given to a sub and we were never told beforehand. JN never did any work. Inadequate pitch problem surfaces when tongue and groove meranti hardwood floor is installed. ? Rained midway exposing puddles. ? Pictures shown to builder who offers to cut support posts to remedy. ? We okayed but believe he only cut one of the four posts. ? Floor installation completed. Puddles continue where floor dips. ? KCC says sanding will correct it. Beautiful new porch now overshadowed by the pitch problem. Meet with JN who concedes problem and assigns blame to KCC. ? Offers solution to take up floor, examine, and propose how to correct. ? JN wants to fix problem. We agreed to this approach. Times passes, JN calls and negates his initial solution. ? Assigns blame on us b/c rough design he agreed to use didn?t specify pitch. ? We counter that common sense should dictate an exterior tongue and groove floor requires adequate pitch. ? JN continues committed to make this right. Offers new solution to lift porch, cut supports, and lower again. Insists nothing will happen to the structure. New problem arises - floorboards warp under the column where KCC cut one of the support posts to create pitch. ? JN says warp is the result of a natural wood product, not construction. ? He offers to fix it. We were not confident the 2nd solution caused more good than harm. ? We consult a professional and decide the porch would resist the alteration. ? Second solution accepted w/ condition we had a clear description in writing and had a signed document to protect us. ? JN drafted the document and after modification we mutually agree to it, sign our copy, send it back for his signature and return. ? He never did. We learn JN is in legal dispute with KCC and JN tells us contact Berghold lawyer. ? It was not our job to contact his sub KCC. JN agrees to do so. ? JN adamant he would not spend any money to fix problem. Alternatively, we told JN to quote job w/ another carpenter and we would be open to look at a figure. ? Apparently no one wants to touch another builder?s work. We hit bottom with JN via numerous text messages states he was done with us, he did everything right, and to no longer talk to him but instead his lawyer.