We hired Brooks Home Renovations to do a remodel of 2 bathrooms, a laundry room, install new interior doors, some trim work, and a special project for the laundry room. We did substantial research prior to hiring them and read as many reviews as we could find online. Unfortunately, their work and management was nothing like what was advertised.
We experienced many issues and they appeared from the start. These issues include but are not limited to the following:
-Assigning/hiring qualified people for the given tasks of the project
-Communication/scheduling workers to the worksite. There were days and weeks at a time that no work was done.
-Product quality issues such as doors needed to be sent back multiple times and in the end, still weren't right.
-New floors in both bathrooms having parts ripped up and relaid due to installation error.
-Wrong measurements of both showers resulting in buildout of walls to existing walls.
-Poor painting and drywall work.
-Mishandling of custom piece for laundry room project resulting in us having to redo the majority of it
ourselves.
-Incorrect size strike plates on new doors that we had to replace due to the fact that they were hitting new trim.
-Bathroom ductwork made of shiny tape and cardboard.
We would like to note here that it is customary and also in the contract to have a final walkthrough to note and discuss the finished project and to address any concerns. We were not given the opportunity.
In addition the these quality control issues, there were significant failures in the management of our project and their customer service when these issues were addressed. There was no real responsibility taken for the issues and when the issues were addressed, the response from management and owner were very often borderline hostile and combative and seemed to be placing blame on us. Additionally, our project started in mid January and was supposed to be inhabitable by March 1st. It wasn't and their timeline went months past what we were told due to their own in-house delays. Given that we were out of the house for a month and a half for them to be completely unhindered for this project, we were completely taken aback time and time again by their responses to our frustration with constant time delays.
Management stated that these issues were not normal or usual and that our project was a "perfect storm" of events. While we appreciate that they acknowledged the situation, they really did nothing to actively rectify or prevent similar problems from arising during the rest of the project.
With all of this, we had to cover additional cost in both time and money due to the mistakes made by this company, many of which could have been avoided if there had been proper communication and management from the beginning.
So for these reasons and many more, we would NOT recommend this company. We did not receive the services, workmanship, or the attention to detail as promised.