Denny's Construction

We hired Denny Construction to renovate a forclorsure we purchased as our primary residence. We also added on a 1 bedroom inlaw suite. The renovation included a new kitchen, master bath, roof, living and family rooms, 2 HVAC units and extensive plumbing and electrical work. There was not much we did NOT do to the house. My husband and I have built 2 houses before in a different area so we are fairly familiar with the construction process. We interviewed several contractors and chose Denny not only because his price was competitive but we felt he was the best fit. We liked the fact that he does a lot of the work himself as opposed to using subcontractors. This project started out fine with an estimated timeline of 3-4 months for completion. Knowing construction, we understand things usually run on the longer side. Having said that, we were disappointed to see little work done the first few months. But, we continued to maintain faith because Lloyd Denny the owner had come highly recommend by our trusted realtor who also happens to be his wife. We had seen his quality of work at their own home when they invited us over for a tour. After 5 months still little progress had been made but we had paid a good deal of the contracted sum to Lloyd. At that time Lloyd came to us and stated he needed more money or he would have to pull crew members off of our job. This came right as we were faced with moving out of our current home with no where to go because of the timeline he had given us. Against our better judgement and because we felt we had no other choice, we gave him the requested money. He still pulled crew members off of our project. We ended up having to secure less than ideal temporary housing for our family that was extremely costly. Lloyd continued to ask for more money from us even going to the extent of asking us to pay subcontractors. The final straw was once we finally moved in (which Lloyd assured us we could do) and started living in the house and experiencing major electrical issues. The cable company came to hook up our tv's and found that not only were the cables not run anywhere, but Denny Construction had left 30 year old cables that were not up to code behind the nice, new switch plates they had installed. The next day when I had someone come to clean the carpets, thier machine blew the breaker on the whole kitchen, laundry room, powder room and part of the addition which I use as an office. Same thing happens now when I plug in more than one appliance in the kitchen. We found out that Denny did all the electrical themselves under someone elses license number. When I spoke to the electrician whose number they used he said that Denny had not wired it like he told him to and he had never called him to inspect it before the final inspection. Needless to say we failed our final inspection in a major way due mainly to electrical problems including have ZERO GCFI outlets in either kitchen, 1-15AMP circuit connecting our entire kitchen, laundry room, powder room, family room and part of the addition. And the list goes one. These are just the major problems. The paint and sheetrock work in our house is horrible. There are areas in our powder room where you can see actual holes in the wall and the webbing under the sheetrock. There is paint splatter all over floors, trim and furniture. Construction debris was left in our yard multiple times for us to clean-up. I could go on and on but I think I've made my point. This was one of the worst experiences my family has ever had. Our project took 7 months and we ultimately fired Denny Construction after the failed inspection and electrical issues.