JR GENERAL CONTRACTORS LLC

DO NOT hire JR General Contractors LLC to renovate your home. They are deeply incompetent, have serious money problems, sloppy workers, and your project will take forever and might not ever be completed. We hired JR General Contractors LLC to partially gut and renovate our 3200 square foot home in Washington, DC. They were incapable of obtaining permits on their own. In fact, my wife and I had to take time off of work to spend countless hours at DCRA understanding what was required for various permits, obtaining the information required, and then meeting with members of DCRA to answer questions in order to obtain the permits. We received a stop work order because JR General Contractors LLC took down the entire back exterior wall of our house. My wife and I again spent countless hours at DCRA to resolve the stop work order, and we were ultimately fined $4700 due to JR General Contractors LLC’s extreme lack of basic skills. JR General Contractors LLC lied by stating that the back exterior wall created a safety issue and had to be taken down, but they simply lacked the skills to make repairs to the existing exterior wall to support a new balcony. When they demolished our back exterior wall, they put most of the debris in the drain in our backyard. During a heavy rainfall, our newly renovated basement flooded with liquefied feces. It cost us $6,300.00 to remedy the damages. They made various crucial mistakes that cost us several thousand dollars to correct. For example, they cannot measure to save their lives. They improperly measured the space for the kitchen cabinets, wet bar cabinets, and basement bathroom vanity. None of the plumbing was properly connected, so it cost us $7,200.00 to correct the plumbing. They failed 21 construction inspections, which demonstrates their gross incompetence. Around 45% of the renovation remained incomplete, and they demanded the second to the last payment covering 90% of the project. When we asked them to complete the repair items that past payments covered, they walked off the job. It cost us $67,770 to hire other contractors to complete the job. They trashed our house with construction equipment, trash, and debris. It took our new contractor five full days to clean out our house. Their work was sloppy, not up to code, and they took unacceptable shortcuts to complete each repair item. The electrical subcontractor asked us for payment because JR General Contractors LLC never paid them. Our contract listed a completion date of September 10, 2018. In September 2019, JR General Contractors LLC walked off the job, which was one year after the project was supposed to be complete. Their project manager has a criminal history, which is publicly available through a Google search. We fired the project manager about mid-way through the project because he is dishonest, could not answer any of our questions, and has no real construction experience. We also would not recommend their architect. He copied our neighbor’s blueprints, and refused to draft a narrative response to accompany the blueprints as required by DCRA. My wife actually drafted the narrative response for the architect. Save yourself time, money, and sanity: STAY AWAY from this team of criminals.