Chesapeake Energy Homes is unprofessional and does not provide good workmanship. This process with Don has been an absolute nightmare. We entered into a contract with Don for a modular addition. Before he tries to belittle this review by saying "I didn't pay him". Yes, I withheld the final 2% left on the contract but we had already overpaid him. We have invoice dates and payment dates to prove this. Don has a history of NOT PAYING his subcontractors and they started sending bills and lien notices to my house. Contractors started showing up at our house demanding payment that Don owed them. Many sub-contractors talked about how it was hard to get Don to pay them and how he would start ignoring their calls for payment. They would also tell us Don would tell them it was because we had not paid him, which is not true. As soon as we made Don aware of subs asking us for money, he blocked our numbers and did not finish the rest of the job. He will say we refused to let him finish his work but that is not true, we told him to forget about repeatedly trying to fix the drywall he put up but that he needed to finish the rest of the work. We have a giant bubbly vein running across our stairwell wall that Don could not fix after several tries. We were living in so much drywall dust for WEEKS because of all his attempts.
Here are just a few issues we had since google puts a limit of 4100 characters, we could very well write pages worth.
His contracts are HEAVILY skewed in his favor and designed for him to basically just walk away on the trail end. We had paid 95% of the contract just on delivery of the modular addition. Leaving only 5% left on the contract before many subs even started working.
Don estimated completion to be 6-8 weeks after the addition was delivered, he blocked us at about 17 weeks in and job is still not finished 25 weeks later.
Don had his young family member doing most of the work that he later told us he does not pay wages to but just pays his bills for him. No wonder the work is so sloppy.
CEH was painting 2 different colors and only had 1 brush every time they would paint, he would constantly have to wash the paint brush in our sink leaving a mess. His son scratched our new dining room chair by using it as a stool and then taking a dirty vacuum hose and vacuuming up dust on it, scratching it (yes, I have video). He borrowed lots of our own tools and damaged some, ladders, shovels, brooms etc.
Our basement flooded to his negligence. I told him several times that they did not seal the gap between the foundation of the original house and the addition. We got heavy rain and because of this we were sucking out water from our basement for over 6 hours in the middle of the night.
Our addition did not have siding or gutters for several weeks leaving the addition vulnerable to the elements and during a heavy rain we had water leaks between the addition and current home damaging our ceilings.
His painting skills are abysmal at best, he WILL not always use tape. He will just go back and repaint over his blemishes, create more blemishes and then go back and repaint those. When he caulked our bathroom sink he put the caulk over an inch up the new wall and an inch on the sink and then tried to scrape it off the sink and painted over the caulk on the wall.
Weve had over 5 subcontractors contact about money that he hasn't paid to them and im sure there are more.
When we found him, he initially had good reviews and then a few months later we started noticing the bad ones come in. This led us to judiciary case searching him and his business. We also noticed it looks like he has friends and family posting his good reviews.
For the cement parging on the cinderblock foundation, He did the front of the house and stopped. The front portion doesn't look bad but then waited weeks later to finish on the coldest day of the year, This type of work is meant to be done in warmer weather so as you can imagine, it looks horrible and is cracked up all over, sloppy and very uneven. read more