Belews Creek Construction

review for Belews Creek Construction - owner Dennis Steele I DO NOT recommend this company. Warning: DO NOT HIRE. We had the unfortunate experience of hiring them to redo our deck. Some of their very UNprofessional practices: 1. Initial “contract” was never updated - no change orders provided - even when agreed to verbally 2. No Permit obtained for work done 3. No itemized list of supplies 4. Never showed up to start work for over 2 months after payment by us of 1/2 down (and remaining 1/2 was supposed to be at completion of work) 5. Never came to work until 12:30 or 1 pm on ANY day and missed MANY days without calling to let us know no one would be here 6. Asked for a HUGE “draw” on amount owed when we were never informed any “draws” may be necessary after less than half the work was done 7. Then as things (very slowly) were getting done we started getting more requests for another “draw” because they didn’t have money to “pay their help” - we were told initially that they had 60 people working for them - only people that ever showed up to work were the owners son and his daughters 17 year old boyfriend. We never had an actual “crew” show up to work. We “thought” and were led to believe that the son and owner were partners because the son requested many smaller “draws”. 8. Owner and Owners son got into a HUGE SHOUTING match, cussing each other out and threatening to “beat your ass” and being so loud, screaming at each other and using such foul language that I (female owner of the house) had to lock my doors in fear of what might happen 9. My husband constantly reminded them (and we have a text message from the owner stating he would be able to match our budget) of the budget, that we could NOT go over a certain amount and my husband was consistently advised “we are good, everything is fine, we’ll make it work out”. When the work was almost complete the son told us the end result was going to be 2000k over budget to finish the handrails at the pool deck. Husband asked if supplies had already been purchased to finish the job and he was told “NO” so husband said, “I have told you over and over that X is our budget, you agreed to it and we can not go over that” My husband had to tell them to not purchase the handrails and that he would finish the job himself. SO the job was NOT COMPLETED and my husband (who thankfully has been involved in carpentry and construction his entire life) is having to finish the job 10. OWNER communicated by text message demanding “final payment”. Sorry dude, No Permit and Job Not Completed negates and breaches ANY so called “contract” and son had already indicated we were paid in full as we had already paid 1000k more than we’d budgeted for. We had no reason to believe otherwise. OWNER is Dennis Steele and company name is Belews Creek Construction. OWNER threatened to come to our house and remove the deck and “use it at my house”. He screamed at us over the phone and used the most foul language I have ever heard. Of course we had him on speaker and we recorded the entire thing. We told him if he came over here the law would be called and he would be arrested for trespassing. I am not sure if we have heard the last from this crooked man but we are certainly prepared if he tries to take us to court. He will not intimidate us. This was all due to them being completely unprepared, very disorganized, very undependable with no regard for getting the work done as promised and in a reasonable time. He even told us we should have to pay “more” because “everything has gone up”. This was a complete utter disaster and fiasco. On a final note, the son, Daniel Steele actually did good work (when he was here) and was pleasant to deal with. It’s the dad that was the problem.

BE VERY CAREFUL*********This is a charming, sweet man...but if you don't know EXACTLY what you want...don't DARE ask for more than ONE estimate (I don't know about roofing..so I asked for 3 estimates)...because he will make it clear, he does't have time for you...and tell you that he is FAR TOO BUSY to deal with you...DON"T WASTE YOUR TIME..I am busy too..especially to deal with such ARROGANCE...thanks, but NO thanks....