Bodine Construction Services

Jenny H.

Bodine Construction has helped me with my homes drainage problems for 25 years. Steve Bodine and his crew do excellent work and are completely trustworthy. I have an older home on a hill, and new problems have developed over the years. Bodine has been able to diagnose and fix them. They are incredibly responsive even when they are busy.

Lee J.

Communication from this company was pretty bad. I sent an e-mail with a concise list of items that I needed an estimate for, and the response I received was an e-mail thanking me for an appointment. I didn't request an appointment, and there was no response to the questions in my e-mail. After finally getting things sorted out, we eventually get the estimate and approve the work to be done. Unfortunately, a week before our scheduled inspection, I find out the estimate doesn't include what was promised (twice). Now I have to start all over with another company. Even worse was the lack of acknowledgement or apology for their mistake. We were looking for an indefinite relationship with Bodine, because we need a bi-annual, if not annual inspection, and we have five buildings that will eventually need all new underground drainage installed (one has already failed). I guess this company doesn't need the work.

Angie S.

I recently asked Steve Bodine to give us a waterproofing estimate on our rental property into which moisture was seeping and making our tenants very unhappy. This has been ongoing for two years and I had had three other contractors out to take a look. Steve was the only one who thought to recreate the problem with a garden hose. Seems simple, but no one else thought of it and it gave us a clear look at where the issue was. He dug us a temporary trench to get us through a few weeks of heavy rain. He then gave me tips on how my husband and I could rectify the problem ourselves. He received absolutely no business from us or payment for this free estimate, yet he accomplished in less than an hour what others couldn't be bothered to figure out. I actually feel a little guilty for taking up his time, but I will without one single doubt hire his company if we face another similar issue in the future. A nice, understated guy who knows what he is doing with basements and water issues.

Diane G.

Bodine Construction is incredible. I have been recommending Steve and his company to clients for the past 20 years and have never been disappointed. When it comes to water intrusion there is no one who knows how to assess and get to the root of the problem and correct it better. Steve and his crew are efficient, professional and stand behind their work with a written guarantee. When it comes to water Bodine is the BEST.

Kat B.

Bodine was called out to my home where a prospective buyer was getting an opinion on an area of slightly wet ground. According to the buyer's agent (and I quote her email) ""Bodine told us that the issue at hand was too dangerous of a situation for them to even take on. This came as a surprise! They simply were not willing to dig out the window wells with all of the heavy wet soil behind them because of the threat of a soil collapse.""
I called around and had folk come out and look at the situation. Everyone laughed at their assessment, said this is highly typical of the area and that it was a simple problem with a very simple, inexpensive and not immediately necessary solution. Not one contractor even remotely called the problem dangerous. And in fact it's been this way for 10 years without any problem or concern.
What the real estate agent claims Bodine said leaves me thinking that Bodine isn't an expert in the field and that customers shouldn't look to them for expert opinions. It is of course possible the buyer's real estate agent lied about Bodine's comments and if that is the case I would be happy to rewrite this review if provided with an explanation as to why Bodine's estimator declined to bid the work.

Cyndi C.

For curing water intrusion issues, Bodine Construction is the company to call. They were very efficient scheduling the initial visit. He actually arrived at the time he said he would be there. That is unusual for people in the construction trade. Steve knows his stuff when it comes to water issues. He's a Seattle native and it takes a native to know how to deal with the amount of water we get.

It took quite awhile to fix the issue but the employees were constantly working and never let up. They were helpful answering questions and Steve called to confirm what he originally bid. No surprises.

We wanted to fix the interior sheet rock ourselves and they were good about issuing a credit for that part.

All in all, I would not hesitate to refer them to any of my friends and clients when they need a water problem solved. Great communication throughout the process and wonderful experience. You will be finding them on my website as recommended contractors!

Jo Ann S.

We have had Bodine work on a number of drainage issues around our property and in the crawlspace over the last 10+ years.

When we had emergencies (such as a crawlspace full of water) they come out promptly. The staff are courteous and clean up well after the work is complete.

Their rates are reasonable and I've had good discussions about why a particular approach is recommended when work to fix problems was proposed. They keep files on work done (including pictures) so that anyone coming out has access to the history of the work done on our property.

Eli G.

I hired Bodine for a basement interior drain installation and floor seal for my triplex.

If we'd only done the basement drain, this would be an A review (although, having now hired other contractors, their price seems higher than equivalent competitors). We had some communication breakdowns, but the on-site staff was impeccably neat, courteous, and (as a non-expert), the work looked solid and was done in a timely fashion. They also kindly drilled weepholes at no charge.

Our experience for the floor sealing, unfortunately, was one of the worst contracting experiences I've ever had in my life.

* Bodine was scheduled to seal my basement flooring, using a product that rendered the entire triplex effectively uninhabitable due to the horrible, nasty fumes. They at no point checked if anyone was actually living in the house, or to notify me that it would not be healthy or safe to be sleeping there so I could make advance arrangements to sleep elsewhere. Their staff apparently did not make a connection between seeing me every morning at 7:30 AM and the fact that, yes, I indeed actually lived there.

When I came home late at night, I was shocked by and scared the density of the fumes in the air upstairs. But I had nowhere else to sleep at that late point -- and Steve was unresponsive to texts or e-mails to ask if it was safe -- so I just opened some windows and hoped for the best. In hindsight, it scares me to consider what future health impacts I may have from breathing toxic fumes all night, due to their preventable poor communication and negligence.

* The triplex Bodine worked in is in a high-crime area of Capitol Hill, and a building that was completely burglarized and ransacked last fall, and arguably due to a prior contractor's negligence. They left a single basement window completely wide open overnight without checking, through which any one of the hundreds of neighborhood transients could have walked into the house. They put in no ventilation fan whatsoever until I called them up, read him the riot act, and then they immediately installed one.

* Despite a construction crew visibly working in the house every single day (letting the crew into and out of the house), Bodine did not communicate to us in advance that they were performing work that would leave the air so unbreathable that our crew absolutely refused to enter the house out of health concerns (yes, the same one I had to sleep in.)

Bodine's lack of communication resulted in our losing two full days worth of work and blowing our contractor and subcontractor schedules. Had we known this, we would never have scheduled this work with Steve's company while a construction crew was making a full-court press to finish up a (very late) construction project and get out.

* And when they needed to return the next day to finish, they indeed let themselves into through that same security-risk window they left open - triggering my monitored security alarm system. Luckily I intercepted the security company before getting a big false alarm fine from the city.

The e-mails from the company staff (excepting Tee, the awesome admin assistant) were generally indecipherable during this high-stress experience. We're talking voice dictation gibberish. Let me quote an example: ""How you like yeah the smell will be a little strong for the first couple hours day or so to come in tomorrow put another very light coat on to some kind of weak areas and just leave a couple windows and doors new windows still at letter"".

To me, the lack of awareness of the consequences of the chemical products they use for their customers was really the most damning part of the experience. When I asked the crew member who called me when it would be truly safe to enter my own home again - he literally said he didn't know and couldn't actually even answer.

When I allow a contractor to install toxic chemicals into my home, there is a degree of trust that they are going to take appropriate steps to manage their impact on my home -- and not risk putting my health at risk by negligent behavior. In this case, this trust was clearly misplaced.

It surprised me at the extent to which Bodine didn't really seem particularly genuinely apologetic after all of this happened.

While I have substantial further moisture mitigation work that needs to be done on the house, and had planned to hire Bodine to complete it, I'm now making arrangements with a new contractor.

When I'm shelling out the money, I want a contractor who understands that they're here first and foremost to solve the needs of human clients -- they're not just here to work on a house and ignore the owner's needs.

P.S. As you can see from the company's own response, they do not take responsibility. And I had a GREAT experience working with Perma-Dry for the rest of my project.

Michael K.

We hired Bodine Construction to redo the existing drainage system in the house we recently bought. Prior to starting work they tested all downspouts with a die and did a video inspection to make sure there were no issues. They were able to solve our problem with the wet crawlspace by installing a more efficient gravity drain so we don't need to rely on sump pump anymore. The guys are true professionals and really do pay attention to detail. They did a great job restoring our front yard to original condition. We would recommend them to anyone who has got a water problem because they are really an experts at what they are doing.

B. T.

Best in town at what they do, don't hesitate to call them for whatever your needs may be. As with all contractors, at least in our experience, you may not get it done as fast as you'd like, but the quality of work is excellent. Thanks Steve, Chuck and all the others who helped us..