Bogman Construction Services

Fabulous work. This is the 3rd time I have used Bogman over the past 4 years. Other projects he did for me included gas plumbing, water heater instillation, and electrical upgrade. He is a joy to work with, has fair prices, and does superior work!

Our new bathroom turned out beautifully. It was done as part of a larger basement remodel, reviewed separately. It's not so much a bathroom remodel as building a new bathroom from whole cloth.
The new bathroom's primary feature is a beautiful walk-in shower with dual overhead shower heads and a heated bench. The shower is massive in size, fitting two occupants with plenty of room to spare. The shower heads can be individually turned on and off.
The vanity is built from my wife's childhood dresser, where the drawers have been cleverly modified to allow the plumbing to pass through the back while the drawers remain fully functional. Adrian added a custom concrete countertop to protect the original wood and to make it more appropriate for a bathroom. The sink is a glass bowl that has been inset into the concrete top, along with a classic faucet set that Adrian got cheap because it was a display model.
The bathroom itself is heated using in-floor hydronic heating that was installed as part of our overall basement remodel. This heating runs through the concrete floor and ceiling, including the shower bench, giving the bathroom an even, comfortable heat even on a cold Seattle winter day.
The bathroom also doubles as a laundry room, with the washer/dryer in a closet that is separated by double sliding doors we found on Craigslist. At my wife's request, Adrian installed her antique baby crib on the wall as a shelving unit to hold all the laundry goods. It's a unique touch that is indicative of the kind of creativity and reuse that is Adrian's hallmark.
The kids' favorite feature is that the new laundry chute terminates in the laundry room. The laundry chute used to be a chimney that was used to allow the basement's furnace exhaust to exit out the roof. The furnace is gone, replaced by a hydronic heating system powered by a tankless water heater. So the chimney was torn down and the remaining conduit space was repurposed as a laundry chute that has now become the centerpiece of our upstairs kitchen.
The bathroom is finished off with lovely sconce lighting and beautiful trim work throughout. Despite the laundry room, the whole experience is somewhat spa-like. It makes our main-floor bathroom feel a little underwhelming in comparison.
We couldn't be happier with it.

This has been a project of epic proportions. It all started out as a simple water-proofing endeavor, as our old, partially finished basement was allowing in rainwater in multiple locations. After interviewing several contractors, we chose Adrian because he recommended the best solution to our problem, not (just) the cheapest. We employed for two starter projects: installing a new external french drain and replacing our foundation (also reviewed on this site). Once these projects completed successfully, we immediately hired Adrian to do a full basement remodel, which is just now wrapping up.
We are extremely pleased with the end result. We're actually not quite finished with the project; we still need to install a couple thermostats, which may depend on a future project we have with Adrian. But minor touch-ups aside, the finished project is breathtaking to behold, especially considering what we started with. 
To call this a remodel is a bit of an understatement. The entire basement was gutted, including removing the 2" slab and digging down ~12-18". We removed the water heater, the furnace, all the old knob-and-tube electrical, and the forced-air ducting. It was replaced with updated plumbing, brand new electrical, and a custom hyrdonic heating solution in the poured concrete floor and also in the basement ceiling, providing radiant heating to the main floor.
The basement itself was partitioned into 3 rooms: a main room, an office, and a new bathroom (the bathroom itself will be reviewed separately, but suffice it to say it turned out wonderfully). Beyond the "typical" furring out of the walls, new insulation, new windows, new lighting, etc, he built us a custom L-shaped bench in the corner that also doubles as a storage area, currently holding the kids' toys. I know, right?
The other half of the main room is the entertainment space, which now features in-wall speakers, jacks for the subwoofer and coax, and a custom-built shelf with built-in electrical outlets.
The office also doubles as a guest room, which includes a closet and a custom built book-shelf which is also a hidden door to the mechanical closet. It's truly a wonder to behold.
The trim work throughout is exquisite, and matches the style of our craftsman-style home to a T. 
If you have an eye for detail, you'll see many ingenious little solutions throughout (e.g., specially-ordered hinges to keep the custom-made door flush to the wall). Adrian was a font of creativity from beginning to end, and the end product shows no small amount of his personality and class.
Suffice it to say, the final product is indeed water-proof. It's been ~18 months since Adrian began on the basement, and in that time not one drop of outside water has breached the new walls and floors.

We hired Bogman to replace defective Kitec pipe used for our heating system. Adrian and team were knowledgeable, professional, friendly, reliable and great to work with. They explored options to minimize visible damages on the walls, ceilings while replacing the pipes.  Adrian is very knowledgeable in all aspects of construction, plumbing, remodeling and we felt comfortable hiring them to do all the work required to replace pipe, drywall and paint rather than hiring multiple sources to repair the opened walls and ceilings. After the work was done ( remove pipe, dry wall repair, paint) everything looked exactly how it was. No visible repairs except inside the laundry closet ( floor under machine) were they didn't replace the full linoleum floor only the area that was opened- not big deal. I am glad we found a reliable, knowledgeable, high standard company to use in future house work/ repairs. I highly recommend Bogman to anybody.

This work was part of a much larger basement remodel project, but we had it specced and invoiced separately.
Over much of the last decade, we've had issues with water entering the house. It started at a single place along the east wall, but eventually we had several places in our basement where water was seeping through the concrete slab. We had invested in *two* shop vacs, and many a night (the basement would invariably leak in the middle of the night) was spent babysitting the shop vacs as they were positioned at strategic locations in the basement, sucking up the incoming water, and waiting for them to fill so they could be emptied and the process could be started anew.
The fall of 2010 and spring of 2011 were particularly wet ones and the flooding especially egregious, and I decided enough was enough. I contact several contractors to get an estimate on internal french drains. Adrian, however, stood out because 1) he talked to us for much longer than any other contractor (Adrian's a talker), and 2) he was the only one to recommend an *external* french drain. His reasoning, which we found to be sound, was that while a bigger project, an external french drain is more effective at keeping water out of the house. An internal french drain, by definition already lets the water in, and this is something we wanted to avoid.
Adrian broke ground on Father's Day 2011. An external french drain results in a *lot* of dirt being displaced. Much of it goes back in the trench after all the bedding and pipes are in place, but there's plenty left over that will need a home. In addition, our sewer replacement and basement remodel were also being done concurrently, and both of these projects also produced yards and yards of dirt that needed a new home. In order to help reduce costs, Adrian found someone nearby on Craigslist that was accepting fill dirt for a landscaping project, and we were able to get rid of the leftover dirt with a Handy Andy dump truck rental and a few weekends of work.
As for the french drain, Adrian was always sure to keep the work site clearly marked with warning tape, and made sure his crew did all the necessary cleanup at the end of each work day. In the end, the project was finished in about 6-8 weeks and was within his original estimate.
It's been about 18 months since the french drain was finished, and I couldn't be more pleased. If you're in Seattle you know we've had a very wet winter, and with each heavy rainfall I see plenty of emergency visits by plumbers in our neighborhood. However, our basement has been completely dry. We even ended up giving one of our shop vacs to Adrian, because we didn't need it anymore!

The new sewer line was installed as part of a much larger basement remodel, but we specced and invoiced it separately. The old sewer line was original to the house (built in the 20's), and being clay, was letting roots in and required frequent snaking (at least once a year) to prevent backups. Rather than dig up the old sewer line, we opted to keep it in place and trench a new sewer line, which would terminate in a location conducive for a future bathroom installation. All work was done within budget. Because of the amount of dirt displaced and the large trench (more than 6' deep in places) dug through our front yard, Adrian placed a premium on site safety and cleanup. The final installation of the pipe, including moving aside a sidewalk slab and connecting at the street, was challenging, but was done quickly and professionally.

We've had the new sewer line in place for almost 18 months now, and it performs marvelously, such that we haven't had to give it a second thought. No backups, no snaking, and the grass has grown back nicely in the front yard.

Price Quote & expectations: Adrian finished the job as agreed, on time, and was always very communicative about his timelines.
Cost: I was on a low budget so he actually saved me money by suggesting which parts of the job I could handle. 
Quality: Adrian impressed me with his sincere care of the environment and resulting eco-friendly choices that were also economical and practical. 
I would say quality was superior to other contractors I've hired.
I have since hired him for 3 jobs so far in the past 5 years. He has always delivered.

Over the past decade, we've had problems with water leaking in to our basement after heavy rains. At first, it only came in at a single point, allowing for us to use a single shopvac to stay on top of it. However, over the years, the entry points increased, as did the number of shopvacs necessary to keep our basement dry.

Last spring (2011), after an especially rainy winter, we decided enough was enough. We started contemplating a water-proofing project that escalated into a full-blown basement remodel. We talked to several contractors for estimates, but only Adrian spent a significant amount of time to discuss what we were trying to achieve and how we might achieve it. We were contemplating a french drain, but he suggested we may want to have our foundation inspected. Given the age of our house (nearing 90) and the quality of its original construction, this seemed wise.

Adrian dug out a 1'x2' hole in our basement, and based on his inspection, suggested an actual structural engineer take a look at it. We had Roland Heimisch of tecinstruct LLC in Kenmore out, and he provided a full report based on an inspection of our basement and this small dug-out cross section. Based on his report, and our desire to prepare ourselves for future projects where we might want to expand our upstairs pop-up, we opted to go forward with the foundation repair.

The foundation repair was done concurrently with a couple other related projects, both of which I'll provide separate reviews for (especially since we were charged separately for them). All of these projects needed a trench dug around the perimeter of the house, and that is what they started doing. Boy, howdy, did we have a lot of dirt! By midsummer, our home looked like a WWI battlefield. But all that digging was necessary to completely put in new concrete footings under our stem wall, as well as repair various cracks in our stem wall.

The foundation repair went fairly smoothly. Adrian has a wonderful crew. They're prompt, hard-working, and friendly. They keep the work site clean and take all necessary safety precautions (including using plenty of warning tape and hazard cones where necessary), which we appreciate with two young children playing around the house. We got to know Adrian and his team so well, we gave Adrian a key to the house so he could come and go without needing us there.

Once finished, the new foundation footings were significantly stronger and better constructed than our old, deteriorating footings. To whatever extent possible, Adrian made the new foundation earthquake resistant, with ample rebar running through them for support. Plus, the footings were additionally secured to the stem wall with several large metal straps that were embedded in the concrete footings on one end and bolted to the stem wall on the other. The stem wall itself, while in decent shape to begin with, was repaired where necessary by sealing cracks with epoxy.

We couldn't be more pleased that our house is on surer footings now. We had the work inspected when it was completed by the same engineer, who assured us that this foundation would be more than sufficient for supporting new construction on our second floor.

I have had three interactions with them and everything has been fine and really good. First interaction was during the last fall then the next interaction was in the middle of summer and last one in the spring. They have actually done really really good electrical work for us. I would highly recommend them to anybody who needed electrical work. They were very professional and were able to tell me what they were doing. They did it very quickly, professionally and also explained why they were doing it in certain ways. Their price is little high but we get what we hire for.

Adrian and his assistant were wonderful helping us do an extensive remodel on an smaller older historic building location of one of our businesses - THE ARBUTUS CAFE' on popular Winslow Way on Bainbridge Island. They came highly recommended, but when I called they were booked 4 months out. But that worked out since we we're planning on opening until June anyway. I was worried the date would get pushed back which is a well known fact with many construction companies, so I was pleasantly surprised when they arrived on the exact scheduled date and time predicted. After they arrived, they listened to what I was envisioning for re-arranging the cafe' and counter setup which included appliances being moved and 2 and 3 phase electrical outlets re-installed. They explained everything they planned to do for me in Lamens terms, which really helped me feel in control of the outcome. A lot of the work included plumbing installation which involved going down into a scary dark wet underground crawl space with miles of cobwebs and barely any room to fit through, but they did it without much hesitation at all. In addition to the electrical and plumbing, they installed my entire sales counter space to my financial specs., by offering me innovative ways of utilizing some of the materials that were already there. I was surprise  how conformant everything looked in the end. They were very professional, fast and detailed. I was especially surprised with the amount of innovative solutions they came up with in troubleshooting areas. The overall quality of work for the price far exceeded our expectations. We were quoted a considerable amount more for the same kind of work from other companies. Would we hire them again? Definitely. We also have an equestrian and dog boarding facility on the island that is up for remodel as well where we plan to use Bogman's services again. We understand Adrian is pretty booked up right now by popular demand, but don't let that stand in the way. Bogman is worth the wait.

We shopped around quotes with other contractors, and Bogman Co was affordable and by far the most responsive to our request.  Other contractors did not respond promptly to follow up quotes and questions that we gave them. Lots of concrete drilling was needed since one side of our room didn't have dry wall.  Due to an error in communication from our building manager in noisy work, we had to shift the work to after hours.   Adrian and Bogman Co were very responsive and accommodating of changes in our work order and dealing with unforeseen roadblocks.  I would definitely use them again!

This is one story of many. Client recently had a water line repair he needed fixed. Adrian came out right away, gave his bid, stuck to his original bid and even went the extra yard helping with a refund from the City of Seattle which helped pay for the repair, something my client was not expecting. He consistently goes the extra mile making sure jobs are done right and looking after your best interest.

Our basement rental apartment flooded in Dec10. Adrian and his company was recommended to us by our realtors- Carrie Pierce & Associates. We are so glad they did. Adrian and his team responded immediately with proposal and pricing. He has over 25 years experience and knows the trade well. He replaced insulation, drywall and texture to all damage areas to bring our apartment back to its original look. He noticed some plumbing work that had not been done well and replaced the plumbing for the sink with abs piping instead of pvc. He put down our Beaufloor as well. When another rain storm hit, during the middle of our basement project, our roof began to leak causing major damage to our son's room. In the pouring down rain, He and his crew went to get special equipment, climbed up on our 2 story roof which has a steep incline, and sealed it with a membrane which would give us time to fix the roof later. The leak stopped and he then repaired the ceiling. We are almost finished with the job and we are so grateful to Adrian and Bogman Company. First rate, first class! Would definitely recommend them.

All went well.

We had windowsills and drywall that had some water damage from condensation from the windows above. I was worried that there were mold issues, and had had some mold expert company come and give an exorbitant bid. Adrian came and was very knowledgeable about mold, and also much more reasonable in his approach. There ended up not being much mold, luckily, but I felt very confident in how they partitioned off the area, and controlled the airflow that no contamination happened with the rest of the house. He and his crew were very professional, easy to work with, super polite and just all around nice. Adrian is felt very honest and trustworthy, and I am a pretty good judge of character. Will totally call him for the next project!

Done w/ the corporate world & wanted to work w/ children. I wanted to create a safe, spacious & playful residential daycare w/in my home. I asked around for the most personable, experienced, & intuitive contractor. A friend recommended Bogman Company/Adrian. Why? "Because he is so thorough in organizing your ideas into reality." His visit proved himself very professional & direct. A couple hours after his consultation, he provided a very reasonable estimate. I checked into two other contractors, however I was turned off by their pushy sales pitches & lack of understanding. It's not easy finding a good contractor. Bogman does all traits in-house, including electrical & plumbing (which requires specialization licenses). Overall, I give them a 10+. They did a beautiful job! When the parents entered the daycare room, they were really taken by it! They said my place was the best out of some 10+ residential daycares they've gone to visit. Please feel free to email for more pictures. Thanks again, Bogman Company! Good luck to everyone that'll be remodeling!