Zero Stars! Unfortunately, we hired Cary Taylor at CL Taylor Construction to be the general contractor to remodel our home. We would not hire him again to build a dog house. If you are considering hiring this guy, please message me first. Long sad story. He was unreasonable, unreliable, never listened or cared about the remodel of our family home. His contract (signed in Jan. 2021) required him to complete our remodel by May 2021 - but by the end of May demo wasn't even finished. Also, there is a laundry list of numerous construction defects - some are shown in the pictures - defective installation of a slider, crooked walls, un-level countertops, etc. And, failures to fill out the right City forms - headaches after headaches. We paid him over $75k more than the contracted amount and in May 2022 he abandoned our job. Took his money and ran. On June 6, 2022, we filed a complaint against him with the CSLB. We tried to work with CSLB to resolve our differences. Cary refused. On July 6, Cary recorded an invalid mechanics lien against our home to retaliate against us for the CSLB claim. There was no outstanding invoice for the amount on the lien. We had to hire a lawyer to get the invalid lien removed. Fortunately, the CSLB is continuing to investigate our claim against him. And, fortunately we hired a competent professional general contractor, who worked with the City and us to get our remodel passed through final! Bottom line: we do not recommend Cary Taylor or CL Taylor Construction! read more

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Cary is a phenomenal general contractor who oversaw the remodel of our kitchen, dining room and media room from the design phase through completion. Designing began in April 2017, and by October 2017, my family and I were cooking and baking up a storm in our beautiful custom dream kitchen. (I'll post photos and videos later.) Always the consummate professional, we plan to hire Cary again for future projects. Since finishing the first phase of our multi-phase homestead overhaul last October, we've recommended Cary and his team-- including kitchen designer and woodworker extraordinaire, Dave Edwards-- many times over. As a result, several of my husband's and my colleagues have hired Cary as well. If you seriously need a detail-oriented, honest and hardworking general contractor, Cary's your #1 choice. Took us years to find him, but it was worth the wait and every penny. Feel free to reach out if you want a personal, unbiased recommendation in greater detail. read more

I delt with CL Taylor Construction Inc. on a home remodel in 2014. I went through CL Taylor for their architect, prints, and city permits. My build went flawless in regards to my contract, the bidding, and finished product. The city of Westminster is one of the most friendly to deal with in regards to permits and inspections. With this being the case I still felt that CL Taylor had my back through the whole process. In California, the state has codes related to energy efficient products, and CL Taylor walked us through all the regulations, product refunds, and tax deductions. Our experience was as pleasant as one can expect when your house is torn up for a remodel as extensive as ours was. We feel we got exactly what we agreed to in our contract with CL Taylor and prices for materials tended to match what we were told as materials pricing is not static during these projects. From start to finish, this project was challenging and we felt we had an advocate in CL Taylor Construction Inc. read more

I worked as a sub-contractor with Taylor Construction and I would like to use this platform to inform others of their less-than-professional behavior as well as suggesting caution if you are thinking of using them for business (or working to partner with them on a job).   During my time with the Taylor Construction, I observed that the owner, Cary, was frequently absent from the job sites and rarely around to properly manage his team/crew.  This caused many opportunities for error where critical tasks were either not completed or done incorrectly.  One specific instance during a kitchen remodel after tearing off dry wall and flooring, etc, the team had to redirect drain lines that were hanging right in the middle of the kitchen from ceiling to floor (this was supposed to be temporary).  As their electrician, I noticed that the project was coming close to an end yet for some reason those drain lines were still hanging from the ceiling and not being redirected per job plans.  When this was finally brought to the attention of an absent Cary, the job had gone too far into the completion stages that it was now too late to deal with the issue, so they had to re-route the drain pipes outside to where the customer would need to put a soffit outside of the kitchen wall to hide this giant, careless mistake.  Later on this same job, Cary tried telling the customer that the balcony was not included in his original bid, even though his blueprints showed that the balcony was, in fact, included.   On another job with Taylor's Construction, Cary and his cabinet maker went over detailed plans on where the electrical work needed to be placed for the appliances ordered.  Upon completion of the cabinets, they began installing appliances when the cabinet maker suddenly realized he had made a mistake and the microwave convection oven needed a completely different line for power (a 220 instead of a 110).  Because of this, the electrical had to be completely redone, resulting in additional costs to re-purchase the correct materials and have the sub-contractor re-run the proper wiring.  When Cary found out about this sudden increase in expenses and labor, he made a comment to another one of his sub-contractors that he would just "hide the extra costs into the painting labor" on another part of the house, effectively causing the homeowner to unknowingly pay for these mistakes.   Earlier this year, I had hired one of Taylor Construction's roofers to come work on my roof at home.  After being up on the roof on TWO separate occasions to assess the costs, I was given a bid that I agreed to.  When it was time for the work to begin, about 30 minutes into the job I was told that now he must charge more because he realized there was additional tear-off that he had to do.  As the work continued, the roofer measured our roof incorrectly THREE times, causing me to spend more and more money on materials.  Towards the final stages of the job, he ran out of the shingles he had originally ordered and ended up going to Home Depot to get more...these shingles didn't even match the colors of the ones already placed onto our roof!  When all was said and done, I ended up spending approximately $5,400 MORE than what was originally quoted to me, which is a shocking difference.   I want to warn people to use caution when looking into this company because I personally feel like the owner shows up to collect a paycheck but doesn't stick around to ensure the work gets done properly and to the customer's satisfaction.  Please think twice before putting money into this guy's pocket.  Do your research! read more

Stay Away!! I started this Yelp page for Cary Lee Taylor because there wasn't one already so i could let everyone know how Cary Taylor screwed me. I hired Cary Lee Taylor to redo my bathrooms, windows, stucco, interior and exterior doors & build in a safe to my house. He and his crew never finished the job even though they were paid in full. He never supplied me with a written contract, always wanted me to pay in cash, and never pulled any permits, He just told me "I'll take care of everything" The bathrooms are finished, but the shower doors leak, and the texture on the walls doesnt go all the way to the baseboards (there is a 1" gap between where the texture ends and the baseboards start.) The windows look good, but the stucco cracked all over the house and the front of the garage is way uneven and looks terrible. As soon as i asked about this i was told to go have a drink (7:30am) because that is the way its gonna be, and then they never came back to my house again. The moldings were never installed around the windows on the inside of the house. The interior door installation was never finished, there is still 1 door that was never installed, and the moldings around the doors were partially finished and the ones that were finished the fit and finish is terrible. He also installed all the door handles on upside down. The exterior doors look great, but they hammered and chiseled my very expensive vintage stone back an inch from the door sill (for no reason) and they never even filled the gap in. It looks like crap and the stone will have to be redone My safe is still sitting on the floor and not built into the wall like it was supposed to be. CL Taylor Construction is Cary's "new legitimate business" after the CAlifornia state contractors board shut him down for using someone elses name, license license number & for other complaints in mid 2013. You are warned The above information is from my personal legitimate experience and is NOT made up, hear-say, slander, defamation of character, libel etc. I have photos of everything to back it up including photos of Cary Lee Taylor working at my place, Papers from the CAlifornia state contractors board etc. This is my true experience with Cary Lee Taylor. "Yelp is a forum for consumers to review businesses, and huge numbers of consumers do just that." Levitt v. Yelp In response to Cary T. reply on 5/6/2016 As it says in paragraph 1 above, I made this Yelp page from scratch because there wasn't one already to review the work of Cary Lee Taylor Construction, So if anybody has the wrong Yelp page it is you. As you can see it says "First to Review" under it. If you read paragraph 7, i never said CL Taylor was shut down, it says "CL Taylor Construction is Cary's "new legitimate business" after the CAlifornia state contractors board shut him down for using someone elses name, license license number & for other complaints in mid 2013." If you go back to paragraph 1 it says "He never supplied me with a written contract, always wanted me to pay in cash, and never pulled any permits, He just told me "I'll take care of everything"" read more

In 2014 C.L.Taylor Construction put in a patio cover for me. The work was completed in a timely manner. I was very pleased and would use them again for future projects. read more

CL Taylor remodeled my kitchen including taking down a wall and rebuilding it. I highly recommend them. My kitchen is beautiful. Every small detail was taken care of. They completed the work in record time. I always had great communication. They were at my home when they said they would be there. I would definitely use them again and recommend them with great confidence. Thank you CL Taylor. Great job!!!! read more

We moved into a new, old, house and decided to gut our kitchen and make it more modern. Originally we thought we would buy cabinets through Home Depot or Lowes, but after looking decided we would go a different route. We ended up going through C L Taylor Construction Inc to order them. Cary flew up to WA and installed them for us. They look amazing! We had a door that came cracked from the factory and a broken hinge and he ordered us new ones right away. We had a great experience with this company. I would definitely recommend them and would do work with this company again. read more

Over the past couple of years, we have employed CL Taylor Construction to add on to, and completely remodel, our 4,000 square foot home. Cary and his team were very accommodating of our need to do the work in phases because we did not want to leave our home during construction. I learned of CL Taylor Construction from a neighbor who utilized their services to demolish and rebuild their home, and was very satisfied. Throughout the course of our project, Cary always pulled the proper permits with the City, passed all inspections in a timely manner, was always responsive to phone calls and questions from me, and he and his workers always showed up to work. I was so pleased with my experience that I referred four other people to his company, all of whom hired him for their residences (both larger and smaller projects) and were very satisfied. I was also happy to open my home for Cary to show two other prospective customers, both of whom hired him after viewing the work he did at my home. Highly recommend. read more