BODINE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, INC.

Project was started late and took longer than expect but work was of high quality and I am satisfied.

Bodine did a hard job professionally and perfectly. No more water or bad foundation. It was a complex job and included many surprises (neighbor's oil tank leaking onto my property) and holes and cracks in the foundation. They had to do a lot of digging and redigging and cutting concrete and digging under trees and paths and avoiding killing plants. They were expensive but did things right and perfectly. In the long run, they were the right choice.

they did a through investigation and provided a proposed comprehensive solution

Originally came to our house to repair and inspect our two pumps when we moved in, came back on a rainy Saturday to do emergency work two years later when drain pipe was plugged up, replaced one pump. Came back recently to run a second pipe to prevent future problems. Our go to team for all sump pump work.

This is a pump that sits in a rain/run off catch basin on site for a multi-unit building.  The person came out on two separate occasions.   The first occasion the person tried to see if he could fix at no charge.  A couple weeks later the pump started acting up again so I had him come out and do the replacement.   He was very professional, patient, was definitely not there to make a quick buck.  He really wanted to fix it the first time, free of charge.   Completely trustworthy (his name was Jim Coolbaugh).

We selected the inside patching option and the workers arrived on time to start the work.  I had removed the drywall to expose the area where the leak was and they helped expand the area to give better access.  They made sure that any wall studs removed were not load bearing before moving them. 
They chiseled out the crack and noticed the area had been patched before.  Since I am the original owner of the house, it means the area had been patched by the builder before I moved in.  The work was being done on the third day of rain so it was easy to see where the leak was.  As they patched the leak, the water would move up and leak at a higher spot.  They continued to work upward until they reached the top of the crack.  They let that layer of cement cure, then came back for a second layer in spots that were still showing dampness.  The final time they returned they put a layer of cement and binder over the whole area to seal everything.
I was impressed with their professionalism, attention to detail, and willingness to return to verify everything was complete.  They were very careful to make sure everything was kept clean and any debris was cleaned before they left.  I would recommend Bodine for any foundation repair.

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The work went fine.
When finished, they matched the texture of the new section of sidewalk to the old, The finish looks great!
I highly recommend this company,

I hired Bodine for a basement interior drain installation and floor seal for my triplex. If we'd only done the basement drain, this would be an A review. We had some communication breakdowns, but the on-site staff was impeccably neat, courteous, and (as a non-expert), the work looked solid and was done in a timely fashion. They also kindly drilled weepholes at no charge.
Our experience for the floor sealing, unfortunately, was one of the worst contracting experiences I’ve ever had in my life.
* Bodine was schedule to seal my basement flooring, using a product that rendered the entire triplex effectively uninhabitable due to the horrible, nasty fumes. They at no point checked if anyone was actually living in the house, or to notify me that it would not be healthy or safe to be sleeping there so I could make advance arrangements to sleep elsewhere. Their staff apparently did not make a connection between seeing me every morning at 7:30 AM and the fact that I actually lived there.
When I came home late at night, I was shocked by and scared the density of the fumes in the air upstairs. But I had nowhere else to go at that point, so I just had to open some windows and hoped for the best.
* The triplex Bodine worked in is in a high-crime area of Capitol Hill, and a building that was completely burglarized and ransacked last fall. They left a single basement window completely wide open overnight without checking, through which any one of the hundreds of neighborhood transients could have walked into the house. They put in no ventilation fan whatsoever until I called them up, read him the riot act, and he immediately installed one.
* Despite a construction crew visibly working in the house every single day (letting the crew into and out of the house), Bodine did not communicate to us in advance that they were performing work that would leave the air so unbreathable that our crew absolutely refused to enter the house out of health concerns
Bodine’s lack of communication resulted in our losing two full days worth of work and blowing our contractor and sub schedule. Had we known this, we would never have scheduled this work with Steve’s company while a construction crew was trying to finish up a construction project and get out.
* And when they needed to return the next day to finish, they indeed let themselves into through that same security-risk window they left open - triggering a monitored security alarm system.
The e-mails from the company staff (excepting Tee, the awesome admin assistant) were generally indecipherable during this high-stress experience. We're talking voice dictation gibberish. Let me quote an example: and quot;How you like yeah the smell will be a little strong for the first couple hours day or so to come in tomorrow put another very light coat on to some kind of weak areas and just leave a couple windows and doors new windows still at letterand quot;.
To me, the lack of awareness of the consequences of the chemical products they use for their customers was really the most damning part of the experience. When I asked the crew member who called me when it would be truly safe to enter my own home again - he literally said he didn't know and couldn't actually even answer. When I allow a contractor to install toxic chemicals into my home, there is a degree of trust that they are going to take appropriate steps to manage their impact on my home. In this case, this trust was clearly misplaced.
While I have substantial further moisture mitigation work that needs to be done on the house, and had planned to hire Bodine to complete it, I’m afraid they’ve lost the remainder of my business.
If I’m shelling out the money, I want a contractor who understands that they’re here first and foremost to solve the needs of human clients — they’re not just here to work on a house and ignore the owner’s needs.

Mr Bodine was very helpful, very determined with this stubborn problem. He found the cause and made suggestions to fix it. I'm very pleased.

It has performed as described and warranted. They have come back twice in two years to inspect basement crawl space too.

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In June Steve Bodine came out and did an assessment regarding the seepage into the basement. He was familiar with how the homes were built in the area and verified that a footing drain system was placed around the exterior perimeter of the concrete foundation when the home was originally constructed in 1952. They started with a flow dye testing that was done to entry walkway and within 20 minutes seepage through crack in foundation was viewed. They viewed with a video pipe camera that two footings were cracked so the water was not going into the footing drain system and the other three downspouts were rerouted poorly into the french drain. There was also standing water in the entryway that they would have to address. Along with the foundation crack that was easily repaired inside but outside required saw cutting the stamped concrete and excavating soil to the base of foundation, which was digging 6 feet down.
We received the bid with a set of plans that showed locations of all the work that needed to be done:
Damaged footings repaired
Five downspouts redirected into the footing drain system
Saw cut stamped concrete, excavate soil down to base of foundation, repair crack and install bituthene barrier and filter fabric faced drainage composite up foundation wall, backfill remaining soil and replace concrete. Although our original concrete was stamped they let us know that due to age and texture the new concrete would not match. However, we found some leftover concrete color mix and they did a very good job at matching it.
Installed two yard drain basins in the front entryway to correct standing water and connected them to the footing drain system.
High pressure water used to test system several times.
Steve, the office staff to schedule job and workers at our home were all very professional. They did a fantastic job and returned the area back to our original condition. It has been 4 years and over 141 inches of rain thru 2013 (per Komo News) and the basement is still dry!!!!

He was excellent. He put in a french drain.

Our 1960 house has a footer drain that likely hadn't been working in years. The first big rain storm we had, we had water coming through the concrete in our daylight basement.
One company we originally talked to said that we should re-run our gutter downspouts since that was probably the source of the problem. They said if that didn't fix it, they could install a sump pump. They noted that ideally, they would install a footer drain, but the cost for that would be really high. Not only did they not realize we already had a footer drain, their quote would have made it worse.
Steve Bodine came by, within 5 minutes figured out we already had a footer drain that was likely clogged, and came up with a plan to fix it. They installed two access points for us, scoped, and pressure washed the inside of the footer. It worked great for the rest of the season, then clogged again (which is typical for old footers that have recently been opened). Bodine's crew came out and re-cleaned the footer drain at no cost to us under warranty. It's been great ever since!

They unplugged the footing drain and for the time being, they solved the water problem so I would rate them very good. They really were competent.

Team that showed up was timely, professional, and experienced.  Work was done without delay; team provided ongoing information of what they were finding, causes, and what was needed to fix areas of concern.  One major front area downspout item was repaird and remedied at the time of inspection, and the work was very professionally done. They also recommended a small device be added to all downspouts to prevent / minimize future problems (special filter screens).  I agreed to have these installed at a later date; this was completed in a timely and professional manner.  These have proven to be very effective and work as promised.
They also provided a bid on the larger, long term remedial work to replace some of the underground system if I decide to have that done.  Overall a first rate job; I would use them again.

I would highly recommend Bodine Construction. They are responsive, professional and thorough. They also came out twice at no charge to fix a couple of minor problems we had unrelated to the original job they did for us. I've used them a couple of more times for other jobs since they installed the drain and sump pump.

Prompt, professional good work.  A bit pricey but you get what you pay for....

They were awesome. They were diligent all through. They were all nuts and bolts together and they did everything. They knew what to do and they sorted through a bunch of problems we had for them. At the same time, other vendors were digging in our backyard to put in a patio and he orchestrated with them in regards to his plans, into what they were doing. He actually dug until midnight with the other contractor.

Steve came out to site to give us a bid which was prepared readily.  We felt the price was reasonable and he gave us a couple of options to choose from.  Took a while to get scheduled for the repair since this is their busy season with all the spring rains.  Scheduled the work and they kept with the schedule, Kelly arrived on time and made quick work of the repair.  He was very professional and pleasant to work with and we felt the work was done first rate.  The work is under warranty for 5 years and also is transferable to the next owner.