Steve Harris Contracting LLC
About us
Financing available. Steve has worked in construction since 1986. He started as a laborer and mason tender and in 4 years rose to the status of carpenter/equipment operator. From 1990-1992, Steve built custom homes in Maryland and West Virginia with his two brothers. In 1991 he started his career in law enforcement, working construction part-time for the next fourteen years. At the culmination of his law enforcement career, Steve held the supervisory/ administrative rank of Detective Lieutenant and was the officer in charge of the Criminal Investigations Division. In 2005, he obtained his West Virginia Contractors license and in 2009, he obtained a Maryland Contractors license as well.
Business highlights
Services we offer
Additions, Basements, Decks, Excavating, Garages, Masonry, New Homes, Patios & Concrete, Renovations, Residential & Commercial, Restorations
Amenities
Free Estimates
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They agreed to come again when the weather was better to repair and paint a porch post, but despite several calls they never called back. Steve told me up front that they focused on large jobs, so I can't really fault them for not wanting to fix my post.
Our problems started with a small piece of grout, about 2 inches in length. It fell out from between two tiles @ the bottom of our stand up shower. This allowed water to be wicked behind the tile, causing water damage on the sheetrock behind the tile. For what ever reason, dura rock and or green board, were not used in a small portion of the shower surround. The bathroom had too have all the tile in the stand up shower removed and replaced, as well as having the tub deck shored up for lack of support.
The wet sheet rock became a chalky wet mess, which dripped water onto our kitchen ceiling, causing discoloration and the tape on the ceiling to start to peel. We determined that the whole ceiling would need to be addressed since there were more than 2 dozen nail "pops" and well as several spots where tape was cracked and peeling. My kitchen ceiling runs into my living room as well as the foyer, so all of that would have to painted when the repair was done. I decided to have the hallways as well as common areas repainted in addition to the ceiling and master bath.
While I had Steve looking @ everything, I had him check our storm door which we got to stop water from coming in when it rained. Our whole front door jamb is off, allowing almost a quarter to one half inch of light in on the right side, so every time it rained, it rained inside my front door. The problem was the when another company installed the storm door, they just followed the existing door jamb, giving us a second door that allowed both light and water to come into the house! While he was looking @ the storm door, he noticed that the wood trim above the door had peeling paint and was starting to rot. So we decided to repair, calk and repaint that as well as the ever-growing list of other things that needed to be done!
Steve brought in Randy Travis from Travis tile to do the tile work in the bathroom. He is an artist! It looks so good. In addition to the shower surround, he and his partner, I didn't get her name, dug out the old grout in my tub surround which was crumbling and re-grouted the tub surround as well.
Steve and his assistant Robbie, did all the patch work on the tape and dug out all the old mud from the nail pops and re-muded all of it! Very time consuming, because you had to keep waiting for the mud to dry between each coat. Then came the fun part, sanding it all! They took turns, as one man sanded and the other held a shop vac up next to the sanding blocks to minimize the mess. I have 2 kids, one is only 9 months old, so this was GREATLY appreciated!! I don't have time for extra clean -up!
The brought in Tim from Dorsey's painting and he and his partner, I can't remember his name, did a fabulous job! They painted all the ceilings as well as the master bath ceilings, the master bath walls and trim, the front door wood trim as well as re-doing my bad job on the side lights and even spray painting the star above my front door!
Since Steve was doing so much around the house, I asked him if he wouldn't mind re-hanging a shutter that blew off my house a while ago, it had been sitting in the garage for about 2 years, which they did, looks great! And while we were in the garage, I asked about paint that was peeling around the garage doors and was informed it was starting to rot, they fixed that as well!
It took just under 3 weeks from first call for estimate to completion of work. I would love to use Steve again, though next time for something more fun, like finishing the basement or extending the patio....or maybe a pergola over the extended patio....hmmmmmm.......
We were impressed even further when we received the bid, as Steve provided a line-by-line estimate that included a description of the work to be done for each item, along with the cost for that item. When we received the other bid, it was slightly higher than Steve's, but we were unable to tell where the differences were because they did not provide the line-by-line detail. They also failed to respond to our request for more detail. Based on our earlier impression of Steve, we decided to hire him.
After we signed the contract and returned it to him, he scheduled to come out and begin work the next day (May 24)! We were unable to be home on the first day, so he started working on the items on the exterior of the house. On the second day, he and his assistant (Robbie) worked on the interior while we were home, finishing up those items since we would not be home on the third and final day of the work. We also asked about a couple of other things not on the estimate, which he took care of for us on the second day. At the end of the second day, he told us to be in touch in a week, at which point we would settle with the bill and do any follow-up. When we returned home on the third day (May 26), everything was complete.
We were quite pleased with all of the work and had only a few questions after the work was completed. We did not contact him for a few days due to a death in the family, so he followed up with us about 4 days later. We scheduled a time for him to come by on Friday, June 3. He did some more work on an item in the house, which he had thought more about after leaving but could not complete on the last day since we were not home. He also addressed all of our questions and fixed a couple of things that we requested (touch up paint on the exterior door and a change to the fascia). It was only after we were satisfied with everything that he requested payment, which we were glad to give him.
We were very impressed with Steve's work, from the quick response to the detailed estimate and, finally, to the quality work. We were also impressed with the time he spent on our home, especially considering that the other company that provided an estimate said they would complete the work in only one day. We appreciated that Steve spent the time to do a quality job on our home. We are almost three months into first time home ownership, and he has been the best contractor we have hired (the others were for pool service and move-in cleaning). We highly recommend him and plan to use him in the future for bigger projects that we hope to do around our home.
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