TIME CONSTRUCTION

Years of gradual soil erosion around our house, lowered the soil around our basement. In one location, standing water would puddle around our basement wall when it rained hard.  No water was getting into the basement, but we knew this was not a good thing. So, we called Pat Garvey, the owner of Time Construction Inc. Pat came over and gave us a free basement inspection both inside our home and outside. He told us the the walls were plumb, and that a few minor cracks in our basement wall were not a problem. He said that they appeared to be routine minor settling cracks. The Palmer valve in our basement worked well, and it appeared that the basement tile drainage system was working well. That is why a little water standing next to one of the walls during heavy rains, did not leak into the basement, or cause the wall to get out of plumb. Pat told us we should get some brown topsoil and improve the grade around the outside of our home because it is not good to have water standing against a wall. He said we could do it ourselves, or he could do it for us. He also told us that he could tuck point the cracks on the inside basement walls if we wanted to. He said the walls would look nicer, but it was not necessary because the tuck pointing was just for appearance. He gave us itemized estimates for both thing (grading, raising air conditioner slab, and tuck pointing), and told us to call him when we decided what we wanted to do. His inspection took about half an hour.
We decided to have Time Construction do the grading, but we decided not to get the tuck pointing done since it was just for appearance only. We called Pat to tell him our decision. Since the work on our home was such a small job, Pat told us that he would fit our job in between other bigger jobs. So, when Pat called back 2 or 3 days ahead of time to let us know when they would come, and to make sure that the time and date worked OK for us too.
On the agreed upon day and time, Pat's crew came over to do the grading work. They had a medium sized truck with a partial load of dirt on the back of it. They had used most of the truck full of dirt for a bigger job that they did before ours. They took dirt from the back of the truck on a wheelbarrow to our home to do the grading. They did not make a pile of dirt in our yard. They only took enough dirt for their work off the truck as they needed it. They had to raise our air conditioner and air conditioning concrete slab too because it had sunk too far due to erosion. It took them about half a day to do the work. They cleaned up well when they finished.
We no longer have any water puddling around our home even when it rains very hard.
I like Time Construction and Pat because they are so honest. Many other basement repair companies lie to customers to get them to let them do a lot of unnecessary foundation and basement work. Time Construction tells you what work absolutely should be done, and gives itemized estimates for the work.

Time construction replaced the drain tile in our basement two year ago. The basement has been dry since the new drain tiles were installed. We are happy with the results.

It went very good. They did a good job for the price. It did not take as long as they thought it would and it did not require as much work as they had estimated. They did digging and made a swell between us and the neighbor so that the water from the gutters would go away from the basement. Even though their estimate was a little higher than the others, we had used them before, so we had them come back.

Project went very well and ahead of promised schedule.

It went pretty well. We had a couple of minor issues, but overall it was good.

Pat was quite prompt and attentive in meeting with me, planning the project, making an estimate, doing the job and following up. Pat kept in touch with me on a regular basis regarding the progress of jobs preceding mine so that I was in the loop about the schedule. Both Pat and Matt explained all decisions and interventions in detail. Job well done. This is the second time that family owned Time Construction has done an excellent job for me. The last was 15 years ago.

During heavier rain we have had a trickle of water coming in from a corner of the basement (seemed to be coming in where the wall meets the floor). We had 3 other basement waterproofing companies come in, all 3 recommended digging inside and installing a drain/tile system and a sump pump. On a recommendation from our electrician we called Time Construction. Pat came out and studied where the water was coming in. He noticed an old gas line pipe (it had been capped off and was not functioning) that was about 2 feet up from the basement floor. He wondered if water could be seeping in around the pipe and getting into the block wall then coming in where wall meets floor. He recommended doing the services that I listed above as a place to start. Price quoted between $250 and $500 depending on how deep they would need to dig. The work was done about 2 months ago and so far the basement has been bone dry. The only issue that we had was that it took quite a while for the work to be scheduled. In fairness, this was a very crazy summer with all of the rain that we had in June and I did tell Pat to take care of customers that had flooded basements before working on ours. All in all we are very pleased with Time Construction!

There have been no problems and I was pleased with the service of this company. They were great at answering my questions and I would recommend them to other people. They made sure to clean up all of the messes as well.

Work was performed very promptly and professionally. All debris was hauled away. I am very happy with the end result.