Oakvale Builders

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• By Doug E.

  September 26, 2016

  New home construction

  $210,000

  365 days

  We were extremely excited to begin construction on our new home overlooking our beautiful lake on property we had recently purchased. After months and months of planning and working with a very talented architect, who helped us envision the home of our dreams, we searched for a builder. We contracted with Oakvale Builders owner Daniel J. Enberg to build our new home for us. Unfortunately the home construction ended up to be a nightmare. The process started off well enough until we noticed and questioned structural deficiencies and variances from our original architectural plans such as:

  1) The lack of 2 x 4 wind bracing and diagonal bracing of the trusses. Daniel J. Enberg would not provide the truss drawings to verify. We ended up going to the truss company directly and obtaining them. We had to hire another contractor to properly brace up the trusses as Daniel J. Enberg refused to correct the situation.
  2) The pouring of the concrete basement floor does not have control joints leaving uneven flooring of ½” to 1 ¼” throughout as well as cracks, footprints and chatter marks which could not be covered by tile or carpet. We ended up hiring another contractor to pour a concrete cap over the top.
  3) The trench drain in the lower garage was not installed properly so water from the garage floor does not slope to the drain.
  4) Water was leaking into the house and shingles blew off due to improper application of Tyvek and shingles. We hired another contractor to repair the Tyvek and shingles on a large part of the roof as Daniel J. Enberg refused to correct the situation.
  5) The window and door heights were not installed at the correct height as well as the ceiling height in several rooms. We are unfortunately having to live with these issues which serves as a daily reminder of Oakvale Builders poor workmanship.
  6) Improperly installed window flashing, joist hangers, chimney cap, and top plates on bearing walls. We ended up hiring another contractor to correct these issues as Daniel J. Enberg refused to correct his mistakes.

  Besides the defective workmanship issues we dealt with, there are numerous items on our contract that Oakvale Builders, Daniel J. Enberg refused to complete:

  1) Final grading of the lot not completed
  2) Framing of the deck not completed
  3) Installation of 5 doors not completed
  4) Upper garage flooring not completed
  5) Did not provide roof warranty, lifetime waterproofing warranty, lien waivers and receipts

  We also had one of the sub-contractors put a lien on our house as Mr. Enberg did not pay them for the work that was performed even though we paid Oakvale Builders the amount due to this sub-contractor. We turned over our complaints to the local county sheriff to investigate. In doing so, the sheriff attempted to contact Mr. Enberg but was unsuccessful. The next thing we knew, Mr. Enberg claimed we were impersonating a police officer by leaving a message for him which was actual the county sheriff. He also claimed we sent him an unsigned letter which we have no knowledge of. Most recently his attorney notified our attorney that a woman in our area who was charged with a homicide was living with us. His legal team indicated this woman was our daughter. We have no knowledge of this woman and we actually would have only been 10 years old when she was born, making it kind of hard to be her parents! It has been very stressful dealing with Mr. Enberg’s defective workmanship, questionable business ethics and ridiculous accusations.

  We have filed a lawsuit against Oakvale Builders and Daniel J. Enberg which is currently being litegated. We definitely would NOT recommend Oakvale Builders or Daniel J. Enberg for any construction projects.

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