Barry Smith Construction

Aug 2021

No transparency about cost of materials; wish I had asked for "time and materials" rather than blanket fee for kitchen job. Costs can be padded with a bid and you can't see where the extra cost comes from. If you make a change, you have no idea how it impacts the budget and you can't get the others who are subcontracted to communicate with you. Any surprise changes that cost extra are added on to the original bid, yet if something is less or you do it yourself, the bid does not change. The first day was demo and lots of dry wall cutting. No protection was put up for the rest of the house. I complained and the next day the plastic went up and the air filter in, but the interior house was already covered in white drywall dust and we all were coughing. This was a major courtesy oversight and health hazard; I have never had any other workers make no effort to protect the rest of the house. BS subcontracted much of the work out. Except for the cabinet guys who were exceptional, the subcontractors did not clean up after themselves. One of Smith's workers was a new hire (new to this kind of work) and after some brief instructions was left on his own all day. Later worker offered out of the blue he "is not a maid", although I saw on his time card he noted an hour for clean-up. I found that evening all the trimmings and dry wall powder on the floor under a light; didn't even pick up the large pieces. Dry wall guy was very nice, but left a big mud mess, including the deck and a handprint on the gate outside. BS did not have a consistent crew but sub-contracted out most of the work, which I could have arranged myself. I think this is where BS problem is; he seems to get things organized but then leaves the work to people he does not know very well in your house and does not keep tabs on them. Hard to know who to trust. Many details left unfinished at my request, but was told by BS he would be back the next week to put in the appliances. When he didn't appear and I tried to arrange it, I was told it would be time and materials to get them installed. So I am calling someone else and doing what I can to finish the project myself.

Oct 2020

Still finding things they hacked or just plain botched on from a job we hired them to do in January 2017. This was only our vacation home at the time so maybe they figured I would never see some of the things. Yesterday was the last straw and what made me decide to write this review. We now live here full time as I am now retired. I went under the house to do some pest control and came across where they made an open in the under belly sheeting and inundation to fix a water leak from the bathroom tube shower. They never resealed it allowing rodents or whatever to get up in there. Also last winter I found skirting damage next to an area they came back to fix something they didn't do properly on the first job. It looks like they cut the skirting and made their own access to under the house instead of going in the normal access on the other side of house. When they reattached the piece of skirting they didn't brace it on one side. This left that piece attached with only a couple of screws on one side only allowing rain and wind to tear it open. I could go on and on with my whole experience with this company but it will take to long to write. These were just the last to. I stopped calling them back out because I don't want to deal with them again. I just want everyone to be aware before they hire them for a project.

Sep 2018

My family member was going to have them come do a rebuild on a bathroom for our hot tub room, the quote was way to high, not willing to negotia, very rude, short tempered, and we felt as if we were not good enough for him. I don't recommend Barry Smith Construction at all, we went else were.