Contractor fails we have seen around Peoria

As we do work for your neighbors, we get to see all of the freshly installed lack of craftsmanship. Some of these works are obvious failures while others fail over time and help inform us of materials and methods that work an others that only provide home owners with costly replacement and repair. This section of our site is our therapeutic way we dealing with being underbid by the under-skilled and uninsured.

Fail: Does anyone understand gravity when it comes to gutters.

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Seriously my pet peeve. I cannot tell you how many gutters we come across that are ruining houses because they were installed sloping back to

Fail: Tacky railing install in featured entryway of Dunlap home

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When a railing is the featured element of your entryway and the builder decides to cut cost by transitioning some of the railing to closet

Fail: LVP Flooring Installation Layout

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Here is a Floor installed without proper layout. Proper layout for LVP should be alternating 1/3rds or 1/4ths as to not show a stair step.

Fail: Local Handyman Tile Shower Installer

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So many things wrong here. First of all we do not install tile…

Fail: Caulk in control?

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First off caulk should be used on the exterior sparingly. Second,…

Fail: Chimney Cap Failure

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This chimney cap was left leaking which caused water buildup…

Fail: Mosaic Tile Failure with grout nightmare

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Not only did this contractor fail build out behind the mosaic…

Fail: Sprayfoam Gone Wild

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Customer was complaining about a draft and her contractor was…

Fail: ****** and Sons Finest Work

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This is a masonry wall of a million dollar home built by one…

Fail: Deck Post and Railing Fail

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Structural deck members cannot be attached to each other with…

Fail: Are you level?

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Are you level or did you eyeball it? If you eyeballed it we…

Fail: Spot bonding used for large tile installation at a local restaurant.

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Spot boding while quicker than troweling is definitely a quicker…