MIKE BAKER CONSTRUCTION

Mike helped us a lot and we appreciate everything he did for us. It just didn’t work out for him to build for us. He was very honest and gave us a quote in a timely fashion. I would like to give him a good recommendation.

Generally it went very well. Mike kept the subcontracting on-time and on schedule. He knew I was going to be involved watching the quality and the budget. The problem came down to billing. The marble around the fireplace was removed and stored for "safe keeping". While in storage it was damaged and could not be repaired or replaced. Mike tried to charge me for the new materials and labor to fix it. A steamer was put in. It wasn't until after all the surrounding walls were done that I noticed that PVC pipe was used on the output side. This will not work on a steamer. It was a battle to get Mike to go back in and replace it with copper as required. His son did the tile work. We were using some expensive Cristallo glass accent tiles and specifically asked for a white thin-set. Dusty was supposed to set a sample on each and never did. He thought he knew better and put it on a dark thin-set. It was another battle to get him to reset this tile. Generally the work was good and on-time. As shown by the examples given above however, I don't think he is comfortable with an owner actually checking the work and checking the invoices. If anything is found that needs to be redone there were attempts to assign it by saying I had asked for it or by charging me to fix it. I had great paperwork, specs and plans. This protected me several times. By questioning the invoices I was able to identify and eliminate some of the attempts to rebill the redone work.