Norma E.
04/05/2019 12:00:00 SA
My review of Envy is mixed. There were good things, and certainly a lot of bad things throughout this entire painful and lengthy process. The good: Project Manager Juan. Professional, Kind, knowledgeable and responsive. The bad: He was not the 1st Project Manager, they assigned to my case. Juan was called in to clean up the mess left by the 1st PM Josh. Josh was either unqualified as a PM, grossly negligent, lazy or sketchy as heck. He hired his father to do the drywall repair, and the end product looked like something my 7 year-old could have done. It was atrocious. Juan hired people like Tate and his team, who really seem to know their stuff with drywall and baseboards.
The bad: no one tells you that when they tear your house apart and manipulate the contents of your home, you are the one responsible for putting everything back. My daughter's bed and my large dresser were taken apart, but not put back together. ALL the closet shelves were removed and left in the garage. I still have blue tape left on certain doors, vents in the bathroom and master bedroom closet that are still covered with cloth and blue tape. They removed all the metallic doorstops when they replaced the baseboards, but didn't put a single one of them back. So now I have no doorstops on the baseboard and nothing to replace them with. Just gone. So now doors swing all the way to the wall. Every piece of furniture removed from the office, including my large wooden desk, filing cabinet and desktop computer, were all placed in the garage and simply left there. I was never told that putting everything back together and back into the home would fall on me. I was never told that cleaning up after the construction crew were complete with the job, would fall on me. I love my new floors. They are beautiful and I am happy with the look of it, but when your insurance company spends almost $46K, and you still get a bill for an additional $17.5K, you would think that would at least include putting all the shelves back up, furniture back together, replacing the doorstops, and bringing things back into the house. But now I learned, the falls in the homeowner.
Another thing to note: The tile guys and the Envy demolition crew are filthy men. Wherever they eat, you will know. Whatever they eat, you will know. When they use your toilet or your tub to relieve themselves, you will know. They will not try to clean up after themselves or hide their disrespect of your home. You will know exactly what rooms they have occupied. Whether from their empty beverage cans, water bottles, food trash, straight razors, or body fluids they leave behind, you will know.
Juan was very quick to address the issues brought to his attention. He always did his very best to make things right for me. He knows his stuff. My only regret is not knowing enough about restoration to ask the right questions - like how with almost $63K in total charges, how in heaven's sake did I get stuck cleaning up beige paint from my white ceiling, brown grout from my walls and baseboards, and all the contents that the Envy crew moved into my garage, I am not left on my own to move back into the house, put them back together, put the closet shelves up and replace all the doorstops Envy took.
As I said at the beginning - mixed feelings about Envy. My new floors look great. Juan called the right tile people for the job, but trust that if you use Envy, ask for full disclosure upfront so there are no surprises, and so you don't find yourself in s similar situation. Ask questions.