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G A Powell Construction, Inc.
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Serving Clinton, WA and surrounding areas

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In business since 1985

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We offer over 30 years of industry experience and will provide you with an unmatched level of experience and commitment to your home improvement project. We've earned a solid reputation for a variety of residential home improvement and repair projects to include painting, cabinetry, doors, and windows. We pride ourselves on the quality of our work as well as our commitment to outstanding results. We look forward to building long-term relationships with our clients and guarantee your satisfaction! References are available upon request. Give us a call today, and let's get started.

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Evergreen Coast Construction, LLC
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Serving Clinton, WA and surrounding areas

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In business since 2018

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Evergreen Coast Construction, LLC, is a locally owned and operated general contractor with over a decade of hands-on industry experience in the Seattle area. We offer high-quality construction service from frame to finish coupled with exceptional customer service and communication. We are expert painters, roofers, and builders and are well versed in all phases of construction. Call Jake today to schedule your consultation on your next home project and you will learn why so many homeowners trust ECC!

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Squire Creek Construction
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Serving Clinton, WA and surrounding areas

In business since 1998

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"Pete and his crew went all in and did a fine job framing our new house. As an architect designed custom stick built house it was complex and required a degree of attention that is more than a typical construction. Pete was very in tune with the architects vision and delivered a great project."
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JD BERGEVIN HOMES
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Serving Clinton, WA and surrounding areas

In business since 2005

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"TLDR; Driving progress is up to you.  Painter is incompetent.  Will miss every deadline.  No green building acumen.
  I hired Joe to add a bedroom to my house and pour a concrete pad for another room.   It was a straightforward project he estimated would take 2.5 months (10/1-12/15).  He volunteered the 12/15 completion date so I put fines in the contract if substantial work was not completed by 12/25.  From the architectural drawings, the only thing that changed during the project was the size of one window and the additional removal of a 3 foot interior wall.
  10/1, the work started and within the first two weeks, excavation was done, the foundations were poured, the framing was done and the windows and trusses were ordered.  Within a month the trusses and roof were on and the windows were installed.  So far, so good, but this was all done by one sub.
  Then things started going in slow motion.  I moved out for the month of November so they could get the dusty indoor work done without disturbing my family.  There were only 3 things completed in November, the electrical was roughed in, two small (5 foot and 3 foot) non-load bearing walls were removed and there was a day or two of digging on a retaining wall.  Disappointed in the progress I asked him twice for a schedule with the remaining tasks and dates.  Although he said he could provide one, he never did.
  He was supposed to have the drywall and insulation done by December 1st (a date again volunteered by him), so my HVAC contractor could install a ductless heat pump.  I had to push out that date by 2 weeks.  Also due to him missing the schedule, I was heating an uninsulated room for 3 days.
  For the siding, outsulation and exterior window trim, he set up 3 meetings to go over it with my architect.  The first one, the sider didn?t show.  I wasn?t around for the 2nd one.  The third time he sent a sider who had never worked with outsulation before.  To his credit, he paid for the 3rd meeting.  Although the architectural drawings went into explicit detail, the sider required handholding to understand them.  My architect was visibly frustrated explaining the installation process to him over the language barrier.   The sider charged $8000 for 4 days of work.  It was $2900 over Joe?s original bid.   This seemed high for 2 reasons.  1. A bid from a competitor who specialized in green building, had worked with my architect before and was familiar with outsulation bid $5600.   2. When I asked the sider why the caulk job was so bad, he revealed he had used a random day laborer to help.  When I asked Joe about the price, he stated that the price was fair because there were several surprises, and he had asked the sider to come down in price.  Not buying this explanation, I called the sider myself.  I asked him if he had provided Joe with a bid before he started working and he said no.  I asked him if Joe had asked him to come down in price and he said no.  So Joe essentially wrote him a blank check with my money.
  By the beginning of January, electrical still hadn?t been hooked up, there were no doors or gutters and the porta-potty and trash heap remained.  I?d had enough of Joe?s work and I wanted him to tie up the loose ends, give me the final bill and get out.  I handled all of the interior work, hanging the doors, doing the trim, painting, patching the drywall and installing the flooring to wrap this up as quickly as possible.  Unfortunately, after the initial bit of electrical was done on 1/6/15, I stopped the fines.  Joe went back into slow motion.  I?ve attached a full timeline so you can get a taste of this.
  Probably the biggest debacle of the project was the exterior painting.  I had told Joe I wanted to have him do the exterior painting, but I wanted it done when the weather was nice.  Ignoring my request, his guys came out to paint on 1/15/15. It was sprinkling when they arrived, but they shrugged it off with ?It wasn?t raining in Federal Way.?  More and more rain kept coming, so they covered their sprayer to protect it while they continued painting.  Then it started a downpour.  All the paint washed off.  They returned the next day to continue.  It rained again that day.  They didn?t prime any of the bare wood and painted it while it was soaking wet.  Not surprisingly, very little of it adhered to the wood.  I fired the sub in charge of the painters because he was supposed to do some work inside like hanging the doors and doing trim work and I didn't want him trashing my house any more. They came out again to paint, this time it wasn?t raining.  But the paint job looks terrible.  There remain bubbles, drips, uneven coloration and almost bare wood in places.  (There is one picture from the first day and all the remaining are as it looks today) I told Joe to hold payment for this until they did it right.  Joe has repeatedly told me he would make it right, but hasn?t delivered.  I scheduled a meeting with the painters to come out and review their work, but they never showed.  Also telling is Joe didn?t look at the paint job himself when he came to collect the final payment.
  Twice during the project I was approached by his subs asking for money.  Although I paid Joe the day he asked, it was clear there was a considerable delay with money flowing to his subs.  First the concrete guy showed up at my door and I got a lien notice from the company, the second was the door guy.  The door guy said, it takes a long time for Joe to pay.  It took over Joe over 2 months after his last day to collect the invoices and present me with the final bill.
  Something as simple as grading a 20 foot driveway and hauling out the trash, spanned 2 weeks to complete.  The worker trashed the retaining wall and left a bunch of concrete debris which I had to get hauled out myself (see picture).  Also of note, my circular saw mysteriously disappeared after the driveway guy used my table saw.
Here is the timeline:
Before work starts pay 1/3
10/1 Project and excavation starts
10/7 Concrete pads poured
10/10 Room, framed and sheathed
10/17 Trusses on
10/25 Roof on
10/31 Windows in
11/4 Pay second 1/3
11/5 Retaining wall digging starts
11/10 Remind Joe I need the insulation and drywall done by 11/30 for a scheduled HVAC install.
11/11 I provided my door choices to order.
11/12 Rough in of electrical
11/20 Small interior walls removed
11/23 Retaining wall ordered
11/25 Retaining wall arrives
11/28 Checked on doors, still hadn?t been ordered.
12/1 I return to my home and there is no drywall or insulation.
12/3 Insulation is done
12/9 Drywall starts
12/12 Drywall is done
12/13 Retaining wall digging ends
12/15 They come out to look at siding with architect
12/16 Retaining wall done
12/17 Doors actually ordered
12/19 Siding starts
12/22 Doors supposed to arrive
12/24 Siding done
1/6/15 Electrical finish starts
1/7/15 Asked to grade the driveway and finish up
1/10/15 Gutters on
1/15/15 Awful paint job done in the rain
1/16/15 Bare wet wood painted without priming, doors come in, wrong size
1/17/15 Driveway grading starts
1/20/15 Paint job touched up but not fixed, barely painted wood, bubbles, drips, uneven coloration remains
1/21/15 Electrical finish completed
1/26/15 Doors finally come in the correct size
1/27/15 Driveway graded
4/6/15 Get and pay final bill
4/18/15 Schedule painter 4/24 to review work
4/24/15 Painter doesn?t show up
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Honeycomb Construction
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Serving Clinton, WA and surrounding areas

In business since 2019

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"Eugene is prompt and thorough as well as very professional. He takes pride in his workmanship. Very prompt and customer friendly in communication as well as in person. I would hire him again for any paint job for my house."
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Exact Electric
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Serving Clinton, WA and surrounding areas

In business since 2007

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"Getting the electrician scheduled was hard; there were numerous cancellations and rescheduling, not showing up on time, & the delays & number of separate appointments I had to make (6+) made things frustrating as a customer. I wish that I was proactively updated on arrival changes. Overall, my issues were clerical. It was hard when they did not show up on time (and not calling to inform me; I had to call the main number to find out when they would be arriving for an 8 am appointment), especially since the electrical work was located at different locations around the house...and I didn't know if I could use the kitchen or do laundry, since I knew they would have to cut the power at different times. While the work was great, I had issues with so many appointments and having to reschedule and wait around for them to show up, etc., in addition to not being proactively informed about scheduling changes. I would still recommend them, but I would advise you to be flexible in your availability and be prepared to call for updates if you want to make any plans around their "scheduled" appointments."
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"I think it went very well, and I am pleased with my new home. The time estimate of six weeks was accurate, and the budget went about a thousand dollars over, which I thought was not bad for such an extensive project. Since I did not opt to hire a designer for this remodel, that meant that Sean and I had to spend many hours talking about the options and possibilities. Moving a whole wall (and a wet wall at that) was a big decision, and involved having a special steel beam fabricated  for the arch where the wall had been. Sean was very generous with his time in explaining what cabinets were available and how they would be organized. I really wanted a computer assisted drawing of what the new kitchen would look like, and although he doesn't have that capability in his shop, he went out and had it done, which helped my decision making greatly. He also managed to find a great deal on very attractive counter tops and a new sink, saving me a whole lot of money. When he gave me his first estimate for the work, and I found it was more than I could afford, he went back to the drawing board and creatively worked out a way for me to have a good looking and functional quality kitchen that would fit my budget.

Sean and his helper were extremely careful and their standards of quality are very high, which was a real plus for me, as I don't want corners cut on work done at my home. They were both willing to keep at any task until the result was perfect. It was clear that my satisfaction was a high priority for them. Many times they both went the extra mile, cheerfully and with good humor. They were very nice to my little dog, who was a bit upset at having his world turned upside down. By the time the job was over they felt like family and it was hard to say goodbye.

I would definitely use Sean again for any job, large or small. I highly recommend him."
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Palm Construction and Remodeling Inc.
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Serving Clinton, WA and surrounding areas

In business since 2020

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"Ray and his team from Palm Construction recently replaced my old roof with new one. They were quick, well organized and did excellent job. There were no mistakes and communication with Ray was great. He really cares about customer satisfaction and I am more than satisfied with the outcome and with service provided from this company! Thank you!"
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