All Phase Construction

They were very nice. They were very capable people and they did a little extra work for me as well. It's excellent. They were right on time.

The work was done very well. Our basement looks really nice, perhaps even better than it was before our flooding damage. David was very easy to work with, coming and going through the house for many days, for a pretty extensive project. Great, prompt communication! I would highly recommend All Phase Construction and would use them again in the future.

David cleared the furniture from 3 rooms, sanded, removed stains, stained and put on a polyurethane finish.. The floors are beautiful, with a soft glow. There was minimal dust from the sanding as the sander vacuumed up the dust as it went along. Then he reinstalled all of the furniture. The hardwood floors were worn and had a matte finish. It certainly updates the rooms and markedly improves the whole appearance, much more than I expected. I have had several people visit and they are really surprised at how well the work was done. Very pleased and will go on and complete two other bedrooms. I would highly recommend David for this and other remodeling Projects.

We are getting older and have some health issues. So we wanted a bathroom that would be easier for us to use as we age. We wanted a basement 1/2 bath. Basement bathroom. Started the job August 7, 2013. We needed a functioning bathroom before the upstairs bathroom was remodeled. We also wanted the upstairs toilet moved to the basement and a Comfort Height toilet installed upstairs. The plumbers did a great job on that. David put in an outlet and bare bulb light with a switch. He originally told us he was going to hire an electrician, but did the work himself. We painted the basement floor, rather than install tile and David painted the walls. The door was a problem. Because of the height of the basement, David had to cut the door down to fit. He cut everything off from the bottom. That put the door knob at a comfortable height for a child. So he had to replace the door. He stained the door. The basement bathroom is just what we asked for; a functional bathroom.
The kitchen door had been replaced with a metal, fireproof door since it leads into the attached garage. We had the frame all stained and varnished. Due to the metal door frame, the wood trim would not fit flush. David added trim under the frame and trimmed the existing baseboards so the frame fit. it looks great.
The upstairs bathroom was one planning error or lapse after another. David ripped out the tub and the surround. He insulated where necessary and added extra framing to allow for a safety bar. The new walk-in tub base was ordered, but the wrong one was delivered. The packaging showed the right information, but that was not what was inside. It had to be reordered and would be four weeks for delivery. That was the manufacturers fault, but left us running to the YMCA for showers for a month. David was never here when the plumbers were here working.
When it was delivered the plumbers installed the walk-in base. Then, David put up the sheet rock and started to tile the walls. The walk-in base is like a three sided tub. Therefore, it has a 1/2 to 1 inch lip on the top. It wasn't until David tiled that part that he realized a standard shower door would not fit. He talked about putting some type of filler behind the standard shower door frame. He finally called the manufacturer and they made a double frame to account for the lip. He had to order that special. So he had to put up an extension rod and shower curtain for the 1-2 weeks it took to get the right frame. Also, the wall at the front of the shower (where the faucet is located) has a 1/2 inch jog in it. The tile sticks out with a rough edge on this ridge. It wasn't cut small enough and David tried covering it up with grout. There are several tiles on the wall near the vanity that are not flush; a corner sticks out. The floor tile looks good except where it meets the cabinet. There is a 3/4 inch channel of grout used to fill the gap from cabinet to floor tile. Also, the wall tile directly across from the toilet is a defective tile. The ceramic color and finish does not completely cover the tile clay. He claims he didn't notice that. How can you grout, clean, and seal tile and not notice? When I pointed it out, he did not offer to fix it. He told me he must have done approximately 80 tile jobs. He uses his minivan and could not get all the tile at one time. The local store ran out, so he had to run to another store 20 miles away for more tile. Then, he miscalculated the number of bull nose he needed and had to make another trip to the store 20 miles away for that. He used our pallet blanket in the shower base to protect it. That was good, but it would have been nice if he had asked first.
He started this job in August and did not order the vanity top until the end of October. The vanity/sink is a special order because the left side of the top is longer than the right. The first two came in broken. By then, I would have kept the old one except David had used it for scoring and it now had deep scratches in it besides the stains that caused me to want it replaced. He never said a word, but obviously ordered the wrong size vanity top. He must have measured to the old splash guard that sat on top of the sink vanity. So the new sink does not reach the cabinet and he put a filler under the splash guard. I asked him twice, if he was going to leave the filler in the corner and he said no, the splash guard would be cut to fit. Now the sink/vanity does not sit properly on the cabinet. If you are under the sink you can see daylight where the vanity top does not touch the cabinet. This top is not the right size for this cabinet. This job took four months. The shower base was manufacturers error and two broken sinks were the stores fault. But, four months?? Come on! Just poor planning and
lack of work ethics. Lastly, he took down the existing towel racks and never re-installed them. I never mentioned it because we wanted him gone. I would not recommend him to anybody.
It is April and we are now experiencing the grout chipping out in the shower, where the tile meets the tub, when we rinse it down after a shower. Also, he re-installed the furnace vent by using caulking. He did not drill holes and screw it in. So if we ever need to take it off, we have to drill the holes for screws and buy screws for it, as he did not leave them with us.

We are so impressed with All Phase and its owner David Fountain. He is an excellent craftsman, he's reliable, trustworthy, and very easy to have around the house (which, given the number of projects we've had him do, was an important factor). We have already recommended him happily to neighbors and friends, and we will continue to employ him for any house projects we have in the future. We just can't say enough good things about him, and our house is just transformed! We're thrilled.

Very well.

I was so pleased with the first project that I kept adding more. They were able to really listen to my ideas and thoughts and then transform them into a completed project.