Bishard Development Corporation

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• By Mike G.

  August 21, 2023

  bought home from them

  $920,000

  Let me start by saying, we love the layout of our home.

  Small builders have the ability to show attention to detail as they are normally around their jobsites, large national builders have systems and protocols in place with quality checking all along the way to ensure they have fewer issues, Bishard is neither of these. They build too many houses to have attention to detail, their superintendent that we dealt with was either stretched too thin or just inexperienced. Mistakes like the ones listed below require very little effort to catch.

  The first clue we were in for a ride was when I noticed two conduits stubbed out right in the middle of two doorways. The second was when they put the wrong color hardy plank siding on the house and told me they were going to paint it as a fix. Luckily, the contract said “baked on color” so we were able to force them to remove and replace the siding.

  Unplumed walls and un-squared rooms are common practice from what we can see. Our master bath tile shower wall stuck out 1.5 inches further from the top than from the bottom. When we made them pull the tile off and reinstall, we discovered there was NO INSULATION in the wall either! This was denied by the superintendent, but when they came back to pull the bath wall off and reinstall we have the workers on camera carrying a roll of insulation in.

  Many outlets on walls had drywall gaps around them due to the holes being cut too large.

  After closing we found out the site plan for our little subdivision was still not approved by the city, this was not disclosed to us at closing by the builder. We only found out, due to the builder calling us and telling me the patio we installed caused his site plan inspection to fail. He then asked me to pay $24,000 to cover his performance bond with the city. Not sure why he considered this our issue, as we had closed on the home months ago. Not even sure why he was still having inspections monthS after all homes were sold.

  None of the brick around porches was cleared of excess mortar, rather covered. Chipped bricks we pointed out to the superintendent , Dylan, were “repaired” by tossing more mortar on them.

  They installed the wrong appliances in our house and took the correct ones from the neighbor’s kitchen and left them with the wrong ones for a month or so after closing.

  Which reminds me of the gas leaks, THREE GAS LEAKS. The connection to the hot water heater, the connection to the gas furnace and an extra stub out we paid for out back had a leak in the master bath wall. To add insult to injury they tried to not fix it and just “split” the other line into two! We paid for two lines, if we have two, we can split them into four! They did see it our way and make the repair, which required part of the houses siding being pulled off for the 3rd time. Our neighbor confirmed they found gas leaks as well after moving in.

  Door jams: door jams in the bathrooms are cut about .25 inch to short, you get a gap under the door creating an unsanitary base.

  They shove grout between tile floor and baseboard , instead of shoe mold. It breaks up before you even move in.

  Our master bath shower is cracked up in every single corner from the ceiling to the pan, it looks like the house has been lived in for 20 years. The tile on all bathroom floors is so uneven that a vacuum gets stuck being pushed across the floor due to raised tile or the vacuum will bounce up in the air due the height difference in tiles. All three bathrooms need to be torn out and retiled. As well, none of the tile was cleaned, grout was stuck everywhere. They also forgot a shelve in the shower, then when they came back to add the second shelf, they installed a different color from the first.

  Nails sticking up out of baseboards in random places.

  The contract stated, “Standing seam metal roof”, we have asphalt shingles.

  The shoe mold they install to match the wood flooring, they leave the nail holes every 18 inches so there is a different colored hole from the rest of the shoe mold. When I asked Dylan the superintendent, he told me that is standard for them.

  Master bath shower door leaks to the point you have to put a towel down. Water pours out of it ,the shower door installers exact words to me were “ all showers leak”.

  Paint: Hope you enjoy painting, because you will most likely have to paint the entire house again. It was awful, walls not sanded, not wiped down in areas they did sand. Missed spots where you can see drywall completely. Wall paint on the ceiling, ceiling paint on the wall. The touch up paint didn’t even match what was on the walls, my theory is that they watered down what was sprayed to the point it was two shades lighter. You could scrape the paint off the wall with your fingernail with very little effort.

  Kitchen island backsplash was covered in grout, not cleaned after install whatsoever. Same with all bathroom floors.

  They used two different colored caulks on the kitchen countertop corners.

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