Minions Construction

just needed to let you know so others can beware about using Minions Construction. They have totally messed me over and left me in a huge mess. They were not communicative throughout this entire past six months, they tried to send me a “change order”of $6,500 for work they claimed they did not know they would need to do… it was for reinforcing concrete footings which were clearly on the drawings and is absolutely something any contractor would know needed to be done. I called another concrete guy and he came out and did it for me for free because he said it was something that took 20 minutes to do and should have been part of Minions scope and they of course would know that if they were reputable contractors. Minions told me that they screwed themselves because they did not buy out the job months ago when I paid the deposit and now lumber prices have gone up so much… I know that is why they were trying to tell me it would be an additional $6,500 for something that should have been part of their scope from the beginning.
They came yesterday and cut the hole for the new door. They used the wrong size glue Lam and the framing is out of level and out of plumb. The glue Lam and framing stick out proud of the wall inside and out. There is no way to patch the interior Sheetrock or the exterior stucco now. I now have to rip out the wall inside and out and do a completely new wall. They also framed the opening wrong and the door had to be installed farther out than the door that was there leaving me now with a huge strip that I have to try and find the same wood flooring to patch. They Also did not put the exterior threshold back and refused to do so. There is nothing to support the new door.
This has been the single biggest nightmare I’ve had to live through and I am now left with an even bigger mess and way more expense to even attempt to finish this job and fix everything they left me with.
When the door installers called them out on the framing and threshold, they literally got in their truck and just left. I am now left holding the bag.
I would 100% not support them being on your site and anyone else having to through what I have been going through with them.
I have had to fire them and will have to try to find people to come dig me out of this mess at even greater expense, time and mess.

My overall experience with Minion Construction has been extremely unpleasant. The owner, Szorenyi, became increasingly condescending, rude and obnoxious as the project neared its end. The project start date was delayed several days because Szorenyi requested a delay in that he wanted to complete another project before beginning mine. The project started with Minion workers doing demolition in the downstairs and upstairs guest bathrooms. At the end of the second day, I found that the workers who had done the demo upstairs had failed to remove the entire faucet and that water was leaking from the fixture and down into my laundry room. A person returned to my home and repaired the leak and set up fans to blow upstairs and downstairs to dry things out. After that incident, Szorenyi's crew did not come back to my home for nearly a week and I received no communication about when they would return. After contacting Szorenyi and requesting the status, he finally came to my home under the guise of determining who he needed to send out to resume the work. I later realized that was a delay tactic. During his visit, I found that the men who were working my project had left his employment due to a dispute with him. For about 2 weeks after that incident, the only person who worked on my project was a subcontractor who completed building the shower ALONE and worked on the flooring. After the flooring was completed, Minion Construction sent out a person to paint and to refinish the cabinets. The rooms that I paid to be painted did not have the look of a professional job. There was overlapping of paint and stain along the walls, the doors were not painted at all, and places where the walls need matching texture were ignored. Additionally, Minion Construction installed a shower door in the upstairs guest bath that was nothing like the one described in the bid. And the hardware on the poorly installed shower door downstairs did not have the correct hardware (brushed nickel vs matte black). When I spoke to Szorenyi about the poor quality of the work and the installation errors, he made excuses, criticized his workers but took no responsibility for anything. After that, communication between the two of us began to deteriorate because Szorenyi became increasingly hostile towards me to the point I refused to speak to him on the phone and asked that he communicate with me only in writing due to his lack of consistency in the things he would say. He became increasingly rude and belligerent during any conversation that I had with him. He then began to demand payment of the entire contracted amount plus $1475 of change orders that were not executed in accordance with our contract. Szorenyi felt that he could declare the job completed and demand final payment before actually completing all work that was included in the punch list that I had provided to him. It was not until BuildZoom intervened that he finally agreed to complete the job. I gave him one day to get everything done and there are still small details that show a complete lack of attention to detail on the part of him and his workers. The work was "completed" on May 14th. As a review...the project was supposed to start on March 1st but was delayed by the contractor until March 4th. The contractor began demanding payment at the end of April even though the job was not completed. Minion sent a final bill with the unauthorized change orders on Saturday, May 15. I delivered a cashier's check to them on Monday May 17th and deducted the $975 for unauthorized and excessive change orders. Zsolt Szorenyi emailed a past due invoice to me (which is incorrectly dated 1.1.2021) along with the 15-day notice to lien my home on the same day that I made the payment. I notified Szorenyi that the charges were excessive AND unauthorized and yet he persists. I am probably going to have to seek legal counsel in order to get this problem resolved. This continues to be a nightmare.