Food L.
09/09/2019 12:00:00 SA
Copper State Home Builder is an absolute nightmare, and no one, I mean **No one** should ever let them into their house, period.
First off, they work with shady businesses and arrange Kickback payments with plumbers who refer them to victims, for those interested, Kickbacks are illegal practices in business, maybe someone can look into this.
So I had a water leak and got a plumber from Yelp who came in and within 5 minutes called Copper State.
Inside of 45 minutes there was a CS van in front of my house and a guy calling up my homeowners insurance opening a claim for water damage, which wow, seemed awesome.
The same day 2 guys showed up and started setting up containment plastic and then a 3rd guy came to test for Asbestos, so far so good.
They tell me once the results were back from the test they would send a crew.
Welp, the next morning a crew showed up and setup an asbestos containment area, and what they call a Negative air containment zone where they had 3 industrial air-filters / dehumidifiers pulling air out of the entire zone and blowing it out small vents in the plastic, great, except, my Air Conditioner intake was dead-center of this Zone.
Oh, but first, they removed my water heater from where this zone would be to prevent it from being damaged.
Did they put it in my living room with my sink? No, did they put it on my back porch which was covered? No. At least on my front porch which is covered? Nope.
Instead this guy rolled my $1,000 water heater through my gravel front yard and left it out of view of my security cameras on the far side of my house, where I do not have a window, a gate to the backyard or anything.
I have video of this on YouTube, with a simple search anyone can find and watch it as it will be a public video by the time this BBB review goes up.
ANYWAY....
Within 5 hours I could hear my blower motor rattling and struggling to start up and run, I emailed them and tried to call to ask about it, no one cared, they were fast to do billable work on a weekend, but answer my concerns? Yeah right.
Oh, another note on this Containment zone, the Top men who did the work left 4 gaping holes in the plastic, big enough for a grown man to walk through, so I am sure the Asbestos they claimed was in there could find its way out, I sent a furious email about it, you tell me there is Asbestos and to stay out, and you leave us for 3 days with giant holes in your safety zone?
I fixed the holes myself and ask for reimbursement, of course I will never get it, because this company does not care about people, it is all profit.
So the next day comes and I hear my AC condenser pump running, running... Running, no cold air. AC burned out, house is getting hot, this is Phoenix in the Summer on a 110 degree day.
I let copper state know, they ignored me and then eventually replied denying it was them, they denied putting my water heater in the stupidest possible place until I sent them video of their guys doing it.
Anyway, I called an AC repairman and upon inspection, yep, AC Blower motor burned up. $1,700 to fix it. Where is Copper State's same day responses now? It is nowhere to be found. My Project manager's response was complaining about how much work she has to do other than my file, I found her responses highly aggressive and abusive, refusing the take any accountability for their damage to my appliances.
Oh yes, the word damages!
They absolutely ripped my house apart, during which I heard the worker in my hallway say, and I quote This is how confident I am that there is no asbestos here! and when I saw him leave their containment zone, he was no longer wearing his hazmat suit and breathing apparatus.
Do you think Copper State told my insurance company that they actually didn't find asbestos and just faked the test to be able to charge them more? I am not sure if I will be asking my agent this question or not, because honestly, I no longer care.
I had to yell to get them to come take down their entire containment zone, and now my walls are littered with staples and have paint missing everywhere because of where their workers tore the tape off that was holding up their plastic containment stuff, honestly, a 3 year old child would have done a better job.
So now here I sit in my house, which is littered with holes because Copper State told the plumber they would open up walls so he could find the leak, since the plumber I hired is from the Roman Empire and uses the old fashion way of finding leaks, knocking giant holes in walls near pipes.
But you see, Copper State tells you it is ok because they tell you they are going to fix it. But of course, that is only if you give them the green light to finish the job, for which you will owe them money up front, I was going to give them the job, but after ruining my Air Conditioner and denying that 3 INDUSTRIAL AIR HANDLERS sucking air out of an AC intake could burn up a motor, they proved they are a 1000% dishonest company