Pearse Construction

We hired him to remediate failed stucco for cement siding - a piece of which recently fell off the home. It wasn't ever nailed in place. He heard us talking about other projects and said "I can do that! I used to build houses!" Given he was already on site and things were going well then, we decided to expand his scope to both internal and external.

We asked him to move 1 window on the back side of the house upward so that it wasn't sitting so close to the roof line. He did and adjusted the inside wall accordingly. Some time later, he took it upon himself to move 2 other windows without our knowledge or consent. It was the right call, but not HIS decision to make as WE HAD TO PAY FOR IT. Looking back, this was our first red flag.

He positioned himself as a general contractor and insisted on using his own people that he never supervised. His tile guy messed everything up, ruined a sub-floor, cost us weeks of delays and left us with $1,000 of overages in tile because he couldn't measure and we couldn't return it - he ultimately realized he was out of his league and stormed off, never to come back. His electrician did whatever he wanted and left live wires in the insulation in the attic and half his stuff didn't pass code. A plumber who screwed up our new master bath shower and mixed the hot in cold a dog bath. His roofer. And his gutter crew that never came back to fix a gap which is allowing water penetration in our foundation.

We eventually found another tile company - that's when we learned that we had a $1,000 overage of tile from the first guy. We learned Pearse's crew (who he never supervised) didn't frame the enclosure square and got silicon all over the frosted side of a glass panel - which is near impossible to remove. ZERO accountability from Pearse.

When we brought the quality and personality issues to Pearse, he said "Well, you're treating me like I'm the bloody general contractor!" Yeah, because that's exactly how you pitched yourself. NO ACCOUNTABILITY. So then WE became the general contractor.

Then we started catching him in lies. Some small - "I'll be there Tuesday" and never showing up. Then they escalated. We were replacing an old slider with a custom Andersen French door. He got one of us pay 75% up front and asked the other one of us if he could put it on his card. WTH? In Oct he said he'd ordered it. We asked him at least 6 times about the status over the next 3 months. He'd say things like "Oh Andersen takes forever, it's their timeline and there's nothing anyone can do about it." By January we asked him for the order information so that we could start escalating with Andersen corporate. He blurted out "I never ordered it! It's been eating me up that I've been lying to you all this time, I forgot!" We asked you like 6 times, you made up 6 lies; we paid you in advance - and you call that "forgetting"? It was thousands of dollars. He played us.

Pearse had signed off on blue prints for another custom door for the front of the house which arrived around this time. When it arrived, built to the specs he approved; it was too shallow. "Well I assumed they'd have added the extra bits for this and that." Blueprints are literally the scale drawing of the item to be made. I said, "You signed off." Again, NO ACCOUNTABILITY. Now we have this gorgeous front door installed but unfinished inside the home. He also started to build us a portico for the door, it was unfinished and what he had done started to buckle. And he botched the install of 3 custom made door handles imported from Europe. He started ghosting us after the door and we started learning about more hidden damage and more lies. As we hired people actually capable of doing work to re-do his work. That's also when we found out the portico wasn't even anchored to the home beyond being friction fit into the brick. Basically, one day, it would have fallen off the house.

We tried to work it out with him due to COVID. He'd make empty promises to finish and when he finally showed up (with no supplies to finish what was on the punch list and with only 2 guys) we told him it was his last day. For weeks we've kept finding more issues - mostly big and expensive and requiring finding someone else to redo his work properly. The most recent - his guys bent the frame of the subzero refrigerator. We called an attorney. Fun times. 49 weeks he put us through hell. DO NOT USE THIS GRIFTER.