Green Building Companies in Westphalia

“We've hired this company twice. The first time was an insurance-covered repair to our garage roof. The company was prompt, gave a detailed estimate of costs, worked well with our insurance company, and did quality work. Several months after the job was completed, they returned at our request to replace some materials that were warping. Our second project was to fix a leak in our roof and install a skylight. Again, very prompt, courteous service and they made sure the work was completely satisfactory before they departed.”

“Jamie and his team recently completed an extensive renovation of my condo. The project included new wood flooring for the entire first floor, four different tile projects, installation of a glass railing system, custom wood wall covering as well as several small projects. The craftsmanship of everyone involved was fantastic. The attention to detail throughout the project was amazing. Jamie is very knowledgable and was a tremendous help to me as my vision of what I wanted evolved. The transformation of my space is phenomenal and I would not hesitate to recommend Jamie.”

“We redid some our home for our elderly mother and our grandchildren. We put up safety rails in the bathrooms, a ramp for our outside stairs, and remodeled the upstairs of our garage for a playroom for our grandchildren. GreenFit was very professional and completed everything on time within budget. We plan on doing more aging in place improvements for our mother in the future and will definitely use GreenFit. We love the changes to our home.”

“I hired the BC crew to build a platform deck at my front door. I provided design ideas and they followed them and improved the project. The job was completed within a reasonable time frame and the clean up was well done. The next year I hired BC to put a metal roof on my house and garage. I also wanted gutter guards put on. This was a big project which Todd and his partner completed well within budget. The work was again way above average and the clean up was complete. This is a fine company to have just about any project completed for you.”

“Have been with Nugent Builders for years. They have done many projects for us and we have always been pleased with anything they have done for us. They go out of their way to make everything just right for their client. We have experience with their remodeling staff and have found them personable and so easy to work with. Nugent Builders is our "go to" contractor whenever we need work done. Wouldn't use anyone else. I think every homeowner should have a long standing relationship with a company that they can trust implicitly to do a great job!”

“Becker & Sanders is nothing but professional, timely, communicative and extremely experienced in their field. I've worked with them multiple times over the years and I will continue to work with them because they have shown true interest in my projects and work with me to provide the best outcome for us both. They have exceeded expectations in any project I bring to the table, whether that be in my home or business.”

“Keith is the brother or father you wish you had in the construction business! His initial estimates are reasonable ones, so he won't be coming back through the project asking for extra money he should have anticipated. The quality of his thinking and pre-planning the details for our projects was better than other contractors who charged more and eventually delivered poorer results. He's very responsive to owner's concerns & he spotted any details not up to his standards before we could open our mouths to point them out. The workers he brought to our house were good ones that did not make us feel concerned for our safety or anything else. Although he has sifted the suppliers he deals with over time to the most responsible ones, he is also willing to pursue items or suppliers the homeowner wants to see which is a better choice. As a small company, it is not always possible for him to be the fastest on every project despite rain or delivery delays, but the end result was always worth any wait. In 2006 (our first project together) we hired Keith from 3 "moderately-priced contractors" recommended by the architect: Keith tore off the top of our 1950s detached garage, raised the walls to match house height, created great storage space under a roof pitched to match the house's and a connecting roof between buildings, re-sided the garage & sunny half of house with Hardie® board & battens to match original, adding insulation too, along with matching copper gutters & matching aluminum-clad overhand trellis work properly topped with copper for a seamless look. The long driveway & turnaround were completely rebuilt with proper slope away from garage & house, which required re-doing the adjacent front lawn & flagstone path and a November search for large white limestone blocks (for stairs where there had already been a too-steep path) to match the original stone porch & steps from a now-closed quarry. More recently, he repaired an original shower stall built by Italian craftsmen (without damaging tiles of shore birds hand-painted by the original owner Genevieve Gillette, ASLA the first woman landscape architect in Michigan and first inductee in the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame for her life's work in discovering, obtaining, and raising funds for local, state, & federal parks; and without destroying the irreplaceable original mosaic shower floor that matches the room's floor); installed a shower venting fan & repaired plaster ceiling; installed a granite countertop & light fixture that made the small space function better & look great, and touched up paint dinged in the work process. His work saved us an historic loss at less than 1/3 of replacement costs. Keith also went above & beyond his duty restoring the clear finish on original white oak window trim & large overmantle in living room that had been corrupted by some undiscoverable substance which caused it to repel several rounds of sanding and varnishing. In 2011 following our ideas, he completely remodeled our pass-through laundry/mechanical room for $17k. This included grinding & leveling the concrete floor damaged by a previous owner's remodeling; repairing an exterior wall surface, creating cupboards to match the existing original 1950s one to enclose all the mechanical devices while maintaining easy access, plus additional pantry storage; correcting decades of convoluted plumbing (and restoring a disappeared outdoor faucet with one having hot & cold water) & wiring (while adding a whole-house surge protector), adding functional lighting, outlets, & switches, spray painting the open ceiling to maintain accessibility for the final few remodeling projects, substituting a double stainless steel laundry sink for the non-original single fiberglass one (installing it perfectly centered on window), new laundry appliances, stainless counter tops designed to move for access to plumbing, hanging an expensive but slightly out-of-square mirrored rack so it looks right, etc. The most memorable moment of this project came on the initial half-day of demolition: While Keith & his brother were packing up to leave, we all noticed that the window well was filling with water & starting to cascade into the room under the 1950s Pella® casement window. First we all jumped to turn off water valves; next the men were outside in the window well trying to unclog its drain to avoid the window glass shattering. Another company quickly snaked the entire perimeter drain system. Neither Keith nor his brother would leave me alone until everything was put right indoors and plans to correct the problem the very next workday were in place. [FYI: As with all "accidents", this one required the coming together of several factors: Screen over window well's drain dislodged recently by some small animal allowing pipe to fill with debris; drain pipe for water softener not installed to code by previous owner but dumping into a window well; several days of Spring rain; the water softener's scheduled "refresh" discharge at 2 a.m. that day, further saturating the soil; and--finally--the "refresh" button bumped during the morning's demolition adding another tankful to the situation.] In 2012 Keith repaired some structural and fascia wood rotting on the original portion of deck and some cedar decking pieces rotting because that contractor had not allowed for cedar to shrink less than treated pine. When there's another project here, we'll wait for Keith Gipfert to be available to work with us.”

“We love our new kitchen. I was very nervous about remodeling our kitchen and so had put it off for many years. Every other room in our 1970’s colonial had been updated but I kept thinking that to do anything with a big impact, we would have to add on square footage. We had a peninsula style kitchen with a breakfast nook and now we have a beautiful kitchen with an enormous granite island which better fits our lifestyle. Brian Huffman and our designer, Donna Cohen of Donna Cohen Interiors, worked hard to come up with a plan that not only worked with our square footage and our budget, but had a lot of extra touches that made the kitchen uniquely ours. Brian’s contractors were hard working and showed up when they were supposed to. It’s hard to be without a kitchen for several weeks and Brian really worked to make it less painful. After the cabinets were in and we were waiting for our granite tops, Brian installed some temporary counters and hooked up the old sink and faucet and dishwasher so we could cook at home again. I wouldn’t hesitate to use Huffman Homes for our next remodeling project.”