ESB Renovations

Bill G.

Company installed deck off screened in porch that they installed . Deck twisted and boards warpped and could no longer open door . Deck was installed wrong with no joice hangers , joices did not run to main beam but were cut short and scab nailed to existing joice coming from house . Deck fell off back of house and was unsafe . Called Elliot the owner and told me he would pay for labor but I need to pay for material . I'm out 1016 $ so far for material and it is still adding up and this does not include the labor for new contractor I hired . Had County Inspector look at it and he had never seen a deck built to such poor workmanship . I pray screened in porch don't fall off house next . Key word - get a permit and have work like this inspected and don't use ESB Renovations for work . Hell of nice guys , but no carpenters . Screened in porch out of square and one end 1"" 7/8 higher than other end . They tried to say my house was crooked and through the porch off . Get a permit and have it inspected .

Alex A.

Had ESB Rennovations install a simple corner shower stall in my downstairs bath. I provided all but $250 worth of materials and the price agreed to for the installation was $2500. The first day went well enough, the contractors are friendly, but the workmanship quality being demonstrated was extremely poor. I honestly don't know how they have their MHIC license. They cut a floor joist when installing the drain by more then 50% and when I brought it up to Elliot (the owner) that it would now need to be sistered to ensure structural integrity, he looked me dead in the eye and said it's totally fine and that that is according to code. Sad thing was, they really didn't need to cut anything, but just move the shower over another inch. Then I noticed the drain was leaking after the ""plumber"" completed his work. So, I look in the crawl space and noticed that the drain hole was improperly cut causing the drain to sit in the base crooked. The guys had ""reefed"" it down and squeezed a ton of silicone around it to try and get it to stop leaking. When I told Elliot (the owner) that the drain is misaligned and is still leaking, despite the fact that his workers had squeezed silicone around the drain to stop the leak. Again, Elliot looked me dead in the eye and said that this is how you install a drain and that he had been doing it that way for 30 years! I about fell out of my chair laughing. Then there was the tile. They simply had to install approximately 50sqft of tile on two walls. The workers showed up without a tile saw and instead used a scoring tool to cut the tile. I know a lot of old timers that can do a great job using just that tool, but nearly every tile they had to cut was a disaster. All the lines were cooked and chipped. To make matters even worse, the workers didn't do the math correctly for the tile and I now have grout lines that are a small as a 1/16 of an inch in one spot and over one inch wide in another. By the third day, I had had enough and fired ESB from the project. Naturally, I didn't want to give them another dime, as I was going to have to redo most of the work, but unfortunately had signed a contract and had to pay it out. After a long, drawn out argument with Elliot, he graciously gave me a whole $100 discount for the shoddy work and structural damage they did making the final price $2400. The repairs to fix all of their work, came to over $700 after they were gone. So, in short, save time, money and emotional stress, and find another contractor.