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"We found McCormick home builders through Angie’s list. They were not one of our original contacts, but they contacted us and came out to give us a quote. Matteo was extremely helpful, informative, honest, and gave us reasonable realistic prices, and did not try to inflate the prices or pressure us in anyway. We felt very comfortable with him immediately. We felt like he was a member of the family that we could just talk to and ask questions he was very personable. He gave us his contact number in case we had other questions and he was always available when we needed him for any type of questions or concerns. Mateo‘s team did a beautiful job. They were fast. They were efficient. They cleaned up beautifully. They did a wonderful job. They were very considerate of our time our needs and our neighbors. They were an absolute pleasure to work with. I would highly recommend Matteo from McCormick home builders for any home building projects, and we will be calling him again in the future!"

"Progressive Builders built as a covered patio. The estimator came out 3 weeks in advance to give us the quote and he was very patient as we tried to haggle and whittle down our initial plan. The chief designer came with a beautiful and suitable design for our patio, which came with a large window, sprinklers and four weepholes. All the members who came to build our patio were courteous and hardworking, even when the rain hits."

"Excellent, respectful of property, careful with work!!!"

"The house we recently purchased was in a bad shape and required a lot of upgrading work and improvement or in other words… It was a total mess. The wall paper was bad and peeling, the light fixtures were ugly and bad, the appliances were total mess and the floors needed to be replaced in the entire house. We contacted Cielo Construction to take over this remodeling project and to bring my house to a modern house condition and now that our house is finished (after 3 months of daily work by several teams of workers) we are extremely pleased with everything they did. Tom and Oren (who were in charged on our project) did an amazing work with starting with the way they ran this project, the way they managed the people and the way that Cielo construction handle all the rest. When they completed the remodeling and left the house, we were very pleased with the entire experience. Magnificent company to work and deal with. Thumbs up."

Founded in 2000, for over 20 years Mega Power has been one of the premier solar companies in all of California, including many cities like Los Angeles, Riverside, Santa Clara, Granite Bay, Van Nuys, San Francisco, San Jose, Pasadena, Sacramento. Complete customer satisfaction, personalized approach and attention to details are our company’s intrinsic core values. We are providing the highest quality service as we enable our customers to save money, increase their property value and help improve the environment. Our team of certified professionals takes genuine pride in giving smooth, practical, Eco-friendly and positive solutions to our residential, commercial and industrial customers’ needs. All equipment and services meet both National Electrical Code requirements and local building codes. Mega Power offers a range of options toward green and energy-efficient solutions to all electrical power needs. We have extensive experience in building a complete solar panel system of all sizes on the roof or on the ground. Mega Power installs them with interconnection to the utility provider so that you could successfully sell excess electricity.

"Our bathroom was outdated and cramped, so we decided to remodel with Ocean Seven Builders. Ron was involved throughout the process and made sure we understood each step. What stood out most was how organized everything felt once the work began. The team was respectful of our home and finished the project close to the expected timeline. The final result looks modern and much more functional!"

"I purchased this deal because I have thought about putting a bathroom in the top floor of my home in imperial beach. I need a design and they couldn't do it because I don't have an existing bathroom where I want one designed. I rated the experience as an A despite the fact that they didn't perform any services because they were incredibly professional and straightforward."

"i enjoyed working with build a dream, everybody that came here was so nice and polite. we painted the exterior of the house and it's beautiful. Matthew and Izik, my project managers, were business like and very polite and always available for me. i will highly recommend them to anyone."

"Final update:  Anyone who has been read my original review will know that I had a lot of problems with my project.  I will list these below along with how they were resolved.  I still have concerns about this company's punctuality, lack of organization, and not keeping foremen or contractors on their job sites, which I think lead to a lot of the problems below. On a positive note, they were willing to go to great lengths to fix things, which is rare for a construction company.  For that alone, I can't review them too badly. They are not bad people, just too busy, maybe.  
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These are the major issues I encountered and how they were fixed.  Now that I look back at the list, a lot of it could have happened with any construction crew.  The one thing I think could have prevented many of these mistakes would have been if a contractor was on hand all the time to oversee the crews.  As I'm speaking to more people in the area though, that is apparently an unusual thing here in Southern California, especially with bigger companies that can offer warranties. I just moved from New Jersey and every contractor I've ever come across there did lots of work themselves and checked their job sites daily.
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So here are the the major issues I encountered and how they were resolved.  I am not including little things like gaps here and there I had to get the crews to fix as I saw them.  Keep these in mind with your renovations as there's a very good chance you'll encounter them too if contractors in this area really don't check their work very carefully:  
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1) Stone flooring wasn't laid out before installing.  We got travertine installed in a Versaille pattern.  Not laying tiles out ahead of time lead to a lot of tiles that had to be redone and a lot more trips to the tile store when we ran out of certain sizes.  This wasted a lot material and a lot of everyone's time. 
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2) Travertine was sealed without cleaning.  I actually found a piece of dog poop sealed onto the floor that the electrician dragged in. The crew also got sealer all over the baseboards, so there were spots that were shiny and had scuff marks sealed onto them.  It took two extra days of work to clean off and reseal the floor.  Some areas had to be regrouted.  It took another day or so for someone to sand off and repaint the damaged baseboards.  Getting the subcontractor to go after all of the dirty spots was like pulling teeth and they did a pretty mediocre job with the resealing (lots of sealant residue which I am slowly working off) because they couldn't follow the directions on the bottle.  They were not happy, I'm assuming, because the company was making them fix it for free.  I think letting them seal the floor was a total mistake.  I had originally intended to seal it myself but when the crew offered it and said I had already paid for it, I couldn't say no.  
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3)  Base shoe was installed on its side.  The hardwood flooring guy left expansion gaps that were much bigger than my liking.  I thought 3/8" base shoe would cover the gaps so I said yes to that base shoe but after it was installed, I find that it's installed with the long side down (3/4" of coverage).  It looked really weird; neighbors I brought in to look at the work noticed immediately.  The company made them remove it and install 1/2" base shoe in the correct orientation.  Some small gaps still needed to be caulked but this looks much better.  I wanted to have 1/2" quarter round installed, which is even less conspicuous but that doesn't come primed and I was told there was no time to prime and paint it before installation.  There was actually lots of time, in retrospect, (see stair nose discussion below, as this all happened at the same time).  It's stuff like this where having a contractor or someone else knowledgeable on hand, may have helped.  I think if you have access to a really meticulous flooring crew, its better to just have them pull off the baseboards and put the flooring underneath.  My neighbor had this done and it all looks flawless. I didn't even know this was an option before my flooring was put in.
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4)  Fireplace patching.  We had our fireplace surround replaced with floor to ceiling tile.  The same crew that did the floor tiling did the wall tile and related demo.  I don't think this was a great idea.  They cut away way too much of the baseboards and drywall.  They put up cement board for the tile but left a big gap between the cement board and the existing drywall.  The cement board and drywall were at a slightly different level, making patching really difficult. The baseboards run below the level of the newly placed tile, meaning its impossible to put a new piece without cracking tile.  Patching the wall and baseboard around the fireplace took almost 3 days, and it still looks messed up if you look closely.  They had to put some quarter around around the tile to cover the gaps and they had to cut little pieces of baseboard (which I had to track down, since they lost the pieces that were cut away) into funny shapes to fill the gaps.  I actually ended up using a Dremmel on one of the pieces myself because the one the guy was trying to wedge in there looked so horrible.  I feel like this was all done in the wrong order.  It would have made a lot more sense to do the fireplace first and redo the baseboard before laying that spot of tile.  I mentioned this to the subcontractors before the tile went down but they just blew me off.  I should probably have gotten the company involved earlier.  Again, it would have been nice to have the contractor keep the crew more organized.
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5)  Crown moulding.  The crown moulding around the fireplace was damaged during demo (easily avoidable, in retrospect) so we decided to build a cornice around the fireplace tile under which we would stick some lights.  They sent a painting/patching crew to do this along with the other cleanup (repainting baseboards, fixing the holes in the walls, etc).  This 6 feet or so of crown moulding stumped them for a week before I finally called it quits.  They never even brought the correct-sized miter saw!  They used up 32 feet of moulding that I had to buy to match what was up in my house.  When I saw them trying to cut the adjacent moulding with a utility knife rather than taking it down to cut correctly, I finally told them to stop working and leave.  The company seemed kind of oblivious during this process.  The contractor was like, "let them finish, it'll look good in the end".  I brought in a moulding guy to see how much it would cost to fix and he laughed out loud when he saw the cuts and pieces that were stuck up there, "Did you let your kids do this?" (my 6 year old could do a better job with his Legos, haha).  ESI ended up deducting the cost of the moulding and the cost for a professional moulding crew to come in.  I don't understand why a company that builds houses doesn't have access to a moulding guy, but oh well.  I am sure that it will look great in the end now that I got Art of Moulding involved.
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6) I had to stain my stair noses myself.  I was told the crew would be coming to do it on Monday (it was Friday).  So there would be no time to order matching ones from the hardwood company ($1000 and it would take a week).  I could pay the hardwood flooring crew to make the stairnoses but it would cost $2800 for that.  I found out blank stair noses only cost $300 and I had a weekend during which I could stain them, so I did it myself.  Turns out the crew doesn't come to install them until almost two weeks later; plenty of time for the factory stair noses to have gotten here.  We have tile on our stair risers and those had to be ins"

"Their work ethic is a Aplus! They were probably late to start working a couple of times but made up the time and stayed later to advance on the kitchen. They definitely did work early in the mornings and sometimes they wouldn't work, but only because they have inspection to pass. I like the fact that they passed inspections, only once was it a minor little detail that the inspector brought to they attention but he let it be done while he was there and inspection passed. Demo was probably tough on them, the stucco was a bit old and strong. But after that the foundation happened and everything happened so fast(stages) my addition seemed to be a lot bigger than I thought it would be but I am definitely happy with the end work. They did not do finishes because I have family members that helped but as far as construction I was impressed with the quality and the fact that I have warranty made me a happy camper. Thanks to the team and office staff that checked up about twice a week!
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