Danielle J. says, "The best and honestly only positive experience I have ever had having work done in Savannah in over a decade, just wish I had found them sooner, as it would have saved me an absolute fortune and countless months if not actual years of torture!
I own an investment townhouse in downtown Savannah that I gut renovated over the course of two years from overseas from 2015 through 2017, and anyone familiar with Savannah knows how impossible it is to get quality work (or even remotely competent or reliable work) done there.
For the original renovation a decade ago, I moved a master carpenter to Savannah from another state, renting him an apartment downtown, renting him a truck, shipping all of his tools, and even still, any local I had to hire for a specific trade (there was no electricity, plumbing, HVAC, it was essentially gutted and barely standing - you could literally see from the garden flat level through all stories and out the roof), was an absolute disaster. Local realtors even refused to show me the house and the top realtor there, Stacy Donegan, told me that I would “lose my shirt” if I attempted to renovate it, and they all assured me that I could not salvage the original 1851 wood floors or fireplaces (which I managed to), but to say it is a nightmare trying to get anything done in Savannah (or the local region, as I know Savannah because my parents have a holiday house on the ocean of Hilton head and they have had similar experiences for the 40 years they have owned that house which was a new build when they bought it) would be the understatement of the century. I always say it’s similar to at home in London, where there is just zero work ethic, nonetheless professionalism, reliability to even show up, or pride in their work (most often they show up once or twice, do a horrible job which just costs money to redo, and then never again).
Years after the renovation was done, I even hired the second largest roofing company in all of Savannah to put on a basic roof membrane (since as a townhouse I could not replace the roof), and even that went horribly - visiting for a full month, they never showed up more than once per week or so (and we caught them putting on the topcoat instead of the initial base coat), so I literally gave up and left the country, leaving a realtor to oversee completion of that. Likewise with replacing the butcher block countertops I initially put in, replacing them with stone. Visiting once or twice per year, nothing can ever get accomplished in any timely manner, nonetheless competently, so I always leave with nothing actually having been achieved, nonetheless successfully (often I don’t even try).
I was visiting America and my townhouse in Savannah for the first time in a year and I wanted to do quite a bit of work that I had intended to do long ago (but ran out of cash during the original renovation). Since it was almost gutted, adding character, installing more moulding, arches, wallpaper, putting in tipping rails, gutting and redoing the half bathroom on the parlour floor, redoing the office entirely, and ripping out the custom closet that was a bit bare bones and building a much nicer custom closet.
I had hoped to accomplish this during my two week Christmas visit, but needless to say, it went the way it always does, literally paying people that rarely showed up to do a horrible job which then would have to be ripped out and done all over again (over 6 weeks time and four times the anticipated cost).
I found this company towards the very end, and greatly wish I had sooner, not only for this visit, but years past, as they were the FIRST to do competent work (aside from the person I literally moved to Savannah temporarily a decade ago).
Here are some photos, granted it was when the work was going on, as after staying for six weeks, I escaped as quickly as possible, forgetting to take after photos of the majority.
Thanks so much and I’ll be using you again in the future!"See more
