Alamo Construction

I've had many experiences with contractors over the years,,In our contract was a clause wich defined the start date and the finish date explicitly and we agreed to an amount of forfieture if this date was not met..Work began on the start date and finished exactly on the propsed finish date...As with all home owners changes are always possible during the construction process ,,these can change the finsih date ...All workers can get lazy which is why I sat on the job many days all day but this is just the nature of the situation....I've recomended Mike and his guys several times and have been happy with the work preformed
By the way get your own Electrician
I interviewed 6 different contractors before hiring Mike Beardsley-ALAMO CONSTURCTION
i WOULD USE HIM AGAIN IN A HEARTBEAT

Everything started out well...however, as time went on, workers would simply walk off the job...materials used were of poor quality...Mike Beardsley became more and more unreliable.  He promised on several occasions to fix some of the work that had been done (bad boards, poor and weak construction), but repeatedly refused to return to try to fix the mess he created...and repeatedly refused to return telephone calls.  As one of the other reports suggests...DO NOT HIRE MIKE BEARDSLEY. 
The most important mistake I made was hiring Mike Beardsley to do any work for me.  In addition to poor workmanship, he completely destroyed the look of my new deck by staining it twice...once "rubbing in" the new stain, the second time spraying the deck with the new stain...resulting  in a completely useless and horrible mess...streaked, dull, spotted...a deck I could never want friends to see...his work and staining were horribly ugly and, to me, irresponsible.  Irresponsible because the stain instructions on the cans, themselves, strictly said NOT to stain but once...the second coat was the "killer"...it makes me sick every time I have to look at or walk on my deck...it is a total disaster and will have to be completely torn down and rebuilt before I will ever have a clean and professionally looking deck...right now, it is nothing but a piece of JUNK and totally useless!
Mike realized the many mistakes he and his crew had made...and then, he simply disappeared...never once returned a telephone call, never once showed up to try to fix the mess he had created...he knew the project was a total disaster, so he simply adopted a "cut and run" policy...never to be seen or heard from, again.
 

Overall, the project was a complete disaster! (Simply refer to the detailed comments in the "Services Performed" section of this report.)

Overall, not well.  I'm still trying to get him back out to honor warranty issues -- He is not returning any of my calls. 

Here are the major issues:
1.  He used interior drywall screws to attached the baluster shoes to the lower rail (see attached photo).  When I asked him why he used drywall screws, he informed me that he painted the top of the screws so they would be sealed; of course, when it rained one week later, we have black streaks ? I have filed a complaint with the BBB regarding this issue.

2. He used wood putty on new deck rail (see attached photo): Really, a new deck and he used wood putty instead of installing
an $8.00 rail.  Wow!!!  This alone says a lot about his quality of work.

3. He used common nails(in door nails) instead of the corrosion resistant type (see photo).  The nails have already started to rust.  After contacting another deck builder, he informed me that I?ll probably have to replace the deck within three to five years because the nails will rust, shrink, and the deck will become unsafe.  Not good, since a deck should last 10 to 15 years. 

...More to come.

Construction started November 2011 and was to be complete February 10, 2012.  Contractor filed bankruptcy in June of 2012 and walked off the job.  He listed me as a creditor because  he was paid in full and would not be completing the work.  He walked off the job in June and I have not seen him since except at a bankruptcy hearing.  The work done was severely substandard and dangerous.  The range and dryer plug were both run with power to the ground causing me to shock myself on the stove, fortunately I then called an electrician before I messed with the dryer too much.  The electrical work was so poor the next electrician recommended installing battery operated smoke detectors in case the ones he installed didn't go off.  The floors were not prepped properly before he installed my new hardwood floors and they already pull and do not sit flush.  If you step too close to a wall the floor pulls away from the baseboard and separates the caulk seam.  Instead of properly removing the old windows for the new install he broke the glass out and pried the frames away causing creases in my trim which were not fixed.  The pocket doors he installed in a wall he built are uneven.  One had to be completely removed and framed over.  My master bathroom has several shower heads and body jets, not all of which get full water pressure.  Something I am going to have to pay to rip open wall to correct.  He would not finish a project before moving on to another.  It seemed that when he would get stumped on how to do something he would simply start something else.  The only part of the house that was completed was the new roof which he subbed out.  My favorite quotes from him include "What do you expect for minimum wage?" (for the record, he was paid far more than minimum wage) and "You didn't pay me for right angles."  There are many many more problems that I could review, but you get the general idea.  He is incompetent at best, and he is still in business.  When I called him to see if he planned on finishing my job (which I had already paid him for in full) he told me that "I needed to put the guys on jobs generating money."  In short he is the worst contractor I have ever come across.  When I purchased my home it was ugly, but had 2 working A/C systems, a functional kitchen, and 2 fully functioning bathrooms; when he left both A/C systems were broken, the electrical in the kitchen was messed up, and both bathrooms had problems.  I have spent thousands already and will have to spend thousands more to finish a remodel I already paid for.

Great job done on time and within budget. Workers showed up when they said they would and worked all day.