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"only took 15 minutes to fix our sliding glass door and we were not charged for this service."

"Alan was great. Communicated well, showed up on time and completed the job and cleaned up. I would definitely hire them again."

We uphold a standard of integrity bound by fairness, honesty and personal responsibility. Our distinction is the quality of service we bring to our customers. Accurate knowledge of our trade combined with ability is what makes us true professionals. Above all, we are watchful of our customers interests, and make their concerns the basis of our business.

"I recently had my shingle roof replaced and I?m very happy with the results. The team was professional, punctual, and completed the job efficiently. The quality of the work is excellent, and the new roof looks great. They kept the work area clean and communicated well throughout the process. I would definitely recommend them to anyone needing a roof replacement."

IronCAD LLC (Residential Plans & Carpentry Services)\nEdgar Almonte \nBased in Lower-NH\n\nBeen working in the Building, Fabrication and Design Planning Field for 20yrs.\nWork-Travel Radius included NH & MA, and Lower-ME.\nExpertise in a wide-variety of disciplines and trades.\nSole-proprietor for Small to Mid-Size Jobs in which Bids will be reasonable. \nInsured Contractor \n

"My parents patio door stopped working and was hard to lock. I called and he came and repaired the door so it would slide again, and ordered the parts to repair the worn out locking mechanism. Today he installed the repair parts and door works great. He charged for two house calls and parts. My parents are so pleased they did not need to replace the whole door. He was very kind to them and did a great job!"

"The service was excellent! They arrived to pick up the vehicle a day earlier which was great. They delivered the vehicle right to my daughter's door and found a side street to unload. The service was delivered within the time frame given. All of my questions were answered via phone or email and the paperwork was seamless and the price was very reasonable."

"Bob and his team were amazing. Bob's price is extremely competitive. Bob is a professional who has mastered his craft. Our project was challenging due to the size of the original 1954 bathroom. We had to remove walls, move doorways, take out closets to maximize space. The bathroom is slightly larger than 8x8 still on smaller side and utilizing every inch was critical to maximize space and required a contractor who knew what he was doing. Bob was that contractor. His carpentry and tile work was stellar. Bob offers suggestions along the way and keeps line of communication open thruout the process which is something we truly appreciated. At the end of each day they cleaned up and left construction zone in broom swept condition. The project was a success and bathroom is absolutely beautiful. We look forward hiring his company for our next project. <br />"

"The best moving company I ever hired. Ben was on time, courteous and took care of every piece of my furniture as if it was his own. I strongly recommend Ben for anything you ask him to do. Will work with you on cost. Great company."

"<p>Bottom line up front:  My experience with Professional Building Services (PBS) started, continued, and ended badly.  I think PBS has potential and that the owner, Pete, has recognized the breadth and depth of his personnel turnover problems.   Their Ops Manager, admin, an entire crew, and various other employees left and were shortstaffed.  They are overwhelmed and are juggling way too many jobs concurrently, trying to satisfy everyone, but quality workmanship certainly suffers.</p> <p>If you hire PBS, monitor and track their employee and sub hours closely and have them initial their arrival and departure times on your tracking sheet.  Also, be ready for callbacks and to do a lot of work yourself, to include clean up.  I finally called for the porta pot and dumpster removal b/c PBS let those very beautiful items sit there month after month, with all that snow we got last year.  Also be prepared for an inordinate amount of your time to be invested.  I easily sent PBS employees over 100 e-mails over 11 months, mostly on coordinating schedules, but often on billing discrepancies too.</p> <p>I hired PBS on what was supposed to be a simple, fast time and material (T+M) bathroom renovation between Christmas and New Years of 2014 and they finished 11 months later on 11 Nov 15!  It took them almost a year for a standard tub to tile renovation.  Granted, it was a small, easy job that PBS doesn?t usually take but Pete Ciaraldi, the PBS Owner, and I thought it could be win-win.  I?d get on his schedule faster and his crew could knock it out during a slow period and earn some extra cash.  </p> <p>What happened?</p> <ul> <li> <p>- Coordinated with the owner, Pete , his Ops Manager, Matt Bouchard, and his energetic admin support, Cathy Zaconne.  Pete only provided the initial quote and negotiated contract terms before handing me off to Matt, which was standard.  Pete?s family owned this business under a different name, but he went in to another business as an engineer (I think) and accepted a sweet buy-out offer.   So, I?m guessing he?d like to hand this company off to his 20-something year old son soon.</p> </li> <li> <p>- Signed a standard contract clearly outlining labor rates, terms, and conditions.  Pete was pleasantly flexible on contract terms and text.</p> </li> <li> <p>- I envisioned a higher end shower with radiant floor heat, 0.5 inch glass shower enclosure, and quality workmanship.  </p> </li> <li> <p>- Turns out the subs didn?t really want to work between the holidays after all and there were no alternate employees who did.</p> </li> <li> <p>- Pete started out as the rainmaker and I never heard from him until Matt, the Ops Mgr quit or was fired no notice.  Then Cathy the admin support (who kept everyone on task) also left.  Cathy kept everyone on task.  Then PBS lost an entire crew of skilled craftsmen too!  I knew something was up when I finally started hearing from Pete personally.    </p> </li> <li> <p>- First part of the job was to demo a hardwood floor area outside bathroom and replace with tile for a mudroom.  I demo?ed the floor to save time and money while PBS employee/sub Jim Fournier did the floor tiles.  Turns out Matt bought brown grout for gray tile so we sent that back.  Turned out to be too difficult to schedule Jim to grout the tile after that.  I installed the floor transition pieces to deal to the different floor heights and I grouted the floor myself.  </p> </li> <li> <p>- I specifically asked Matt about the tile pro several times?and was repeatedly told by Matt that ?they have someone?  (meaning Jim, their on-again, off-again employee or sub depending on the week).  Lesson learned: if you have a tiled bath wall, ensure a tile specialist is identified and do not use a jack of all trades and master of none.  The PBS chap who did 90% of the work for me on this job was Jim Fournier.  Jim is a great guy to chat with, has a good sense of humor, and is very trustworthy.  He generally does good work but I did require him to do several call backs to correct his mistakes.  Matt did not treat his folks well and often used Jim as his verbal whipping boy and expected Jim to correct the work of other PBS employees when they made mistakes.</p> </li> <li> <p>- The crew planned a substandard shower just to finish quickly:</p> <ul> <li> <p>-- with a rubber liner that would get tacked to the studs, resulting in a swiss cheese effect!  It would have been ruined before it ever saw water.</p> </li> <li> <p>-- so, I changed course after seeing Jim?s work and decided it was better to use a presloped high end tile kit from Laticrete, which I acquired myself.  I had no faith in Jim being able to get the floor slope right otherwise.</p> </li> <li> <p>-- they weren?t going to install any additional blocking behind the shower wall so I had to do it myself.  Full disclosure:  I made mistake #1 by putting a nail right through the copper pipe. Easily and quickly corrected by the plumber Brian and a nice lesson learned for me to stop work before I got tired.</p> </li> <li> <p>-- Jim improperly framed the shower.  He knew it was going to have heavy 0.5 inch glass doors supported by bracket fasteners going directly into the studs but he never added any studs there!  So, I directed that it be done over.</p> </li> <li> <p>-- The team (to include the electrical and plumbing subs) do not work well together and the left hand does not know what the right is supposed to do.  No one wanted to install the exhaust fan vented outside so Jim finally had to do it.    </p> </li> <li> <p>-- Same issue with team dynamics happened for the electric radiant floor heat. Everyone acted like it wasn?t their job to install so Jim got stuck with it again, even though he had never done it before.   So, who do you think read the directions and took the requisite voltage readings?  I did.</p> </li> <li> <p>-- The crew (except for Eric the electrician) play it fast and loose on their hours, resulting in wide discrepancies with reality.  In theory they are supposed to use smartphone apps to log in and off job sites but they sometimes had trouble getting a signal in my driveway.  I wised up after seeing the first hourly bill and then asked the fellas to initial off on my own time sheet where I closely tracked their arrival and departure times.  Just a coincidence that after that they were more accurate (yeah, right!)  The plumbers working for Paul Martin were the worst offenders...we?re talking about consistently being hours off, not a measly 30 min.    </p> </li> <li> <p>-- Shower wall tiling was substandard at best.  Several significant lippages are clearly evident and the wall and floor both have wave issues, even with a presloped shower pan.</p> </li> <li> <p>-- You should see how bad the walls and ceiling came out after Jim plastered.  Sanding was inadequate which resulted in lines everywhere.</p> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> -- Pete really does mean well and genuinely wants to provide exceptional work.  He (like all of us) was juggling a lot of familial challenges concurrently and experienced huge personnel turnover.  In my view, he never handled the crisis of losing his Ops Manager  correctly by notifying his clients up front and never apologized for the long delays and frequent callbacks required.  I think he is trying to mentor his son Joey to take over as Ops Manager but I?m dubious as to whether he has the requisite experience and interpersonal skills to manage clients, staff, and suppliers.  Pete needs to hire and pay for top quality folks if he wants superlative results. <br />"