Our construction experience with Native Sons with ...

Our construction experience with Native Sons with Rob as the lead site construction worker was absolutely superb!!!! Rob and his assistant David worked efficiently, quickly, and cleanly. Demo of all our old cabinets and two islands was done in one day. It really helped that Rob had licenses for construction, plumbing and electrical. Instead of waiting and having teams of licensed personnel work on site, Rob basically did everything himself which made the work go quickly.

As with any construction project we had delays but it was not Native Sons' fault. Some cabinets arrived broken and had to be made again (one critical cabinet part broke twice in two shipments). A special order stove fan arrived damaged and had to be reordered. Native Sons was very accommodating in working with us as our schedule had to be revised several times.

LESSONS LEARNED

1. When going through Home Depot remodeling services, Native Sons is hired to be responsible for just the construction details. They DO NOT act as a general contractor for the whole project.
2. We were responsible for coordinating with the granite company to select and reserve granite slabs.
3. We were responsible for coordinating with the granite installation company to ensure the scheduling was done
4. We were responsible for ordering all electrical appliances and devices such as fans, disposal units, stoves, refrigerator, etc. and making sure they got to the house
5. We were responsible for communicating between Home Depot, the granite quarry company, the granite installation company and Native Sons to ensure everyone knew the schedule of events of the construction project.
6. With the original price quoted for Native Sons construction we made the assumption that it would include general contractor responsibilities.

SUMMARY

Overall if we had to do this over again or start a new remodeling project, we would hire Native Sons in a heartbeat and not think twice about it (as long as we got Rob back!!) What is most important is that the job get done correctly because we will live with it for decades. Native Sons (Rob) got every part of the job done right on a project that was complicated.