Best General Contractors in Phoenix, AZ

After reading so many positive reviews, I had high hopes that Michael would be able to complete the project at my home - resealing my deck and doing some drywall work. He sent me a quote ($580 for the patio and $75 for drywall repair) and I asked him for a breakdown of the charges. The following is the exact text exchange:

Me: What's the breakdown of your bill? Materials and labor?

Michael: $580.00 For the patio floor and $75.00 Patch the walls
Total: $655.

Me: No, the breakdown of the patio floor. Labor vs. materials cost?

Michael: I don't have a breakdown I gave you a price for labor and material if that is not enough for you I cannot help you I'm sorry good luck

Me: Sorry, I was not intending to offend. Just curious as to what terials cost and how many of hours of labor the job might need.

Michael: Be safe and good luck.

I found his answers to be unprofessional at best and shady at worst. I think any contractor should be able to give a breakdown of their expenses, if the expenses are REASONABLE. Even if it's just an estimate. I was very disappointed in this interaction.

If you are looking for an Iron Door come to Eric! This couldn't be better! The quality is amazing and Eric was very experienced and professional! Communication was perfect and He actually showed up and finished on time. We couldn't be happier. Did I mention he was about half the price of any local Iron Door Company!

If you're looking for a general contractor, highly recommend Kyle King. We had a wall removed, cabinets and countertops pulled, and some electrical rewiring. He was very flexible with us as changes were made while he progressed with the job. Job was completed faster than expected and was extremely clean throughout the process.  Received several quotes, he was the most competitively priced, great comms, and he's local to Queen Creek. Outstanding quality and couldn't be happier.  Before and after photos:

Michael Conley of Golden Bear Construction just completed a shower installation for my wife and I in our master bedroom bathroom. The quality of his work is outstanding and his timeliness and professionalism was the best. I would gladly hire Michael and his company again.

I called Aqua Therapy to get an estimate on a shower kit remodel.  I talked with Derek, and he was extremely professional and sent over an estimate pretty quickly.  After receiving the estimate, I called him to discuss what options would save money.  He quickly sent me a new estimate and we scheduled a date for him to come out.  The job came out perfect.  I can definitely say that Derek is a man of his word, his reliability and service were well above par.  His costs were in-line with what was quoted.  I am planning to hire him for my next shower remodel.

I hired them to add a closet to a room in my house.  They had to deal with framing, drywall, baseboards, paint, electrical & flooring.  It came out great, looks like it's part of the original house.  I would use them again.

Great company to work with. Sina is a very professional real estate broker. Responds to all calls and emails in a timely manner and answers any and all questions you may have.

first time using them - when I moved in 3 years ago I actually got a letter stating that they'd done work on our house before so keep them in mind if anything goes wrong. Well it finally did and they were not only able to get me in before noon to fix a main line back up back up, when a cancellation came in they called me up right away and offered to come sooner if I was home. Done in 30 minutes, everyone was nice and professional, and if it happens again in 7 days they'll come back out for free. Could't be happier.

I was referred by a friend after a bad storm had revealed a leak in our new home. With another monster storm about to hit us, I reached for a consultation and Geremy drove an hour and a half out of his way on his own time to look at what was going on. Gave me a quick and honest assessment, when asked how much, he was beyond reasonable, and offered to handle the job on the spot, so the next storm wouldn't damage my house! You will regret using this company! My roof guarantees it!

Ken Armstrong of Armstrong Innovations:  FRAUD ALERT for custom kitchen and bathroom remodel.  The old common contractor practice of fraud is alive and well, and I found it in Anthem, AZ.  He's an underskilled laborer who took our money and hired another equally unskilled subcontractor, and together, they ruined all 3 of our expensive countertops.  Ken's highly distracted and disorganized, and has enormous difficulty staying on any task, so he didn't, with us.  He instead started something else, and never quite finished anything he started, but he had no problem asking for lots more money for his shoddy workmanship while overcharging by thousands.  He kept and hid the receipts to himself, despite more than one request for them, leading to suspicion about his questionable business practices, since he already lied to us about his availability and about showing up for work, and he had covered the damaged wood he installed in our home with blue tape over it.  He called this custom design.   We would soon discover that we had legitimate reason to confirm our suspicion was true, and to fire him, to prevent further financial loss. It's no big deal not to show up for work, he said, with a childish, unprofessional excuse, representing the best of what I saw of his business acumen.  He's excessively arrogant about what he does badly, and he did it all badly.   From the brown water discharge from my new plumbing he installed, to the white tile he poorly grouted and failed to correct, to the stone flooring he discolored with his dirty sealant, to the damaged and scarred wood he installed, to the pocket door he hung wrong per installation instructions he didn't read, to the countertop fiasco with no one using published installation instructions, resulting in uneven and unlevel and unusable surfaces, and to all other numerous issues he created for himself, he blamed his blatant installation errors on everything else BUT himself, offering faulty logic for his costly shortcomings, never admitting he grossly misrepresented his capabilities, and himself as a reputable businessman. He walked off our job during his subcontractor's countertop installation, so he could bid on another project.  I watched as no level and no measuring tape was used, resulting in a sloppy countertop I can't use because of gross height and leveling deficiencies.  That's just crazy, he said, when I inquired about his need to measure the range for its custom height requirements in preparation for the countertop installation.  Putting countertops on before putting cabinet doors on was one of his very bad judgments.  Trust me, he said about his countertop subcontractor, whose last name and business card he withheld from us when asked, so that we could follow up with our Silestone 15 year warranty that we will never see that he failed to produce for us after we paid for the material and the installation.  While he was hired to work with us, he was evasive and unavailable.  He offered us whatever we asked for in our custom design, then told us he had lots of experience with it, then left us completely inconvenienced with poor attendance, poor quality work, and failing to honor his word of being available to us for his assistance with our custom project.  He offered to spend some of his contracted time picking up and delivering our tub, toilets, and larger purchases for us, but, he left us to do it for ourselves.  He said that he would help us with design ideas and specific material selections for our custom design, but didn't, then rudely blamed us for delaying him, leaving us hanging and causing us further delays, such that we had to ask for the face to face meeting with him in writing, that he refused.  He refused to guarantee his work, and then insulted us before asking us for 4500 more dollars the next day.  He made excuses for the 3940.00 problem he created with the countertops, then walked away from the project.  Completely abandoned with no contact for over two weeks, he left us with poor workmanship and leaky plumbing and no cabinet doors.  He cashed our 5000 dollar check without depositing any of it.  When is Ken coming back from vacation? asked one of his subcontractors, during the time period he was given to fix the identified errors in our home, while time ticked away towards his given deadline.   His lack of integrity and ability to follow through with his approaching deadlines describe his style.  You deserve to know in advance that he doesn't make his own cabinet doors, but he never told us that until just before he abandoned the project, when we confronted him about his poor quality work and asked for that face to face meeting that he refused.  This dog is not worth the filing fee to take to court, but I'd love to show a jury the pictures and video of what he thinks is good work. Underskilled, unethical, and blatantly dishonest is what we experienced. Countertop subcontractor works for business whose license is suspended by ROC.

Unable to review the level of customer service because when I called no one answered and the voicemail box was full so I was unable to leave a voicemail :(

We used ACR for our master bathroom renovation and had them do the flooring on the staircase and second level as well. We have not had great experiences in the past with renovations, but this was different. James came out and listened to what we wanted done. He helped us decide what would look best in the space we had and was responsive over the next few weeks to answer questions and get the design figured out. The quote was reasonable as well. Keith was great at communicating during the entire project so I knew when and who was going to be working each day. He made sure everything was done how we wanted and didn't cut corners as we had run into in the past with other companies.  Fred did our plumbing and also communicated well with a couple changes that were needed and involved me in decisions. Dan did an amazing job with the tile for the floor and shower. He was very detail oriented. Our flooring crew worked fast and hard long days to complete it quickly. The flooring and trim turned out very nice. I would definitely use them again.

Petrus was recommended to me by my brother who used them for a kitchen and bathroom remodel. We also had a great experience with our kitchen remodel, and are now having our bathrooms done. Fabio is great to work with and recommended some details I would not have thought of myself. He will give his honest opinion but is not pushy at all. I told him from the beginning that I am a perfectionist and will notice anything not done right...and I found out he is too! He was often on site while the work was being done and inspected everything personally. Jennifer in the office was a pleasure to work with. Highly recommend!

I just wrapped up my 3rd job with JM Contracting and we couldn't be happier!!! The first job Josh (owner) did for me was our back patio roof. We discussed a drainage issue and out of all of the other bids I obtained and telling them all the same issue, Josh was the ONLY one that suggested we get an architect/engineer to address the problem. He naturally got my bid! Josh got on top of the drainage issue and once the engineer/architect (Quincy) did his calculations, pictures, etc. we came up with a solution. Josh was able to do the entire job, also addressing an issue with my sagging roof that was putting all its weight on my french door lintels which required shoring it up and stabilizing it, he stayed just outside of our original budget.
We have had NO problems with drainage since and that has saved my master bedroom floor!

Josh remodeled my master bathroom and my father's bathroom within the past 4 months as well. The outcome is stellar!!! Our bathrooms now look like they came right off of HGTV! No kidding! I highly recommend JM Contracting for all your contracting jobs. Josh is great to work with, his team (including his subs) are spot on too. Josh oversees everything and he is a total prefectionist...a keen eye for detail and making sure it looks 110% perfect!  Thanks Josh for such great work! We will be using him for our next remodel of our kitchen and our pool decking too!

The quote the owner gave us was competitive and i had decided to hire him.  But before hiring him i sent an email asking for their license number and two references I received no reply whatsoever. Weird !!!

Our experience started out well but changed for the worst when the product was delivered. Their were a number of cosmetic defects in the cabinets. Such as inconsistent stain, nicks, scratches, etc.. We contacted the owner, Michael, to inform him of the problems and we agreed on a time for him to come inspect the areas of concern. On that day Michael wrote us at the last minute and said he wasn't coming out and that he was sending his employees instead, to do the repairs. We weren't excited about the last minute communication and change but went with it. His employees arrived and we showed them our concerns. Long story short they said they would need to take all of the cabinet doors and drawer faces back to their shop. We accepted this plan as they promoted it was the best way to resolve the issues. We requested that the work be done by a certain date and the employee stated he would make it happen.

Time came for reinstalling the re-stained and corrected pieces. Unfortunately shortly after that, the lacquer finish on almost all of the pieces started to peal. Here is when communication, timeliness and courtesy went out the window. Unfortunately we had already maid final payment so we didn't have much leverage to deal with their newly acquired poor business practices.

We contacted Michael again and he agreed to come out and look at the problem. At that meeting he acted as if we caused the problem because we asked for the original imperfections to be repaired. He stated that the pieces never should have been taken back to their shop. We tried to remind him that he didn't show up to that original meeting and that his employees made the decision to remove the pieces, not us. He completely dismissed that idea and has to this day. But, he agreed to remake the pieces that were peeling.

In our opinion the job should have been made a priority because our project was now many weeks behind. None of which was our fault. Nope, we were put on the low priority and 6 months after the original installation we are still living with the peeling doors.

Michael and his company have been poor, at best, to deal with and we are now having to file a formal complaint against 2nd Avenue Design Group with the Registrar of Contractors.

I will complete this review once more has transpired.

I highly don't recommend doing business with this company. They provided an inferior product, have been rude and unprofessional to deal with.

Bad connection on phone line and then sounded spacey.

Wasted my time with multiple emails bc didn't bother to actually read mine.

Glad I didn't hire.

Not sure why Rosie on the House recommends- looks like I dodged a bullet.

Update-

They could've seen the house had they had the time or inclination.

First experience over the phone was unpleasant.

Other companies I called right after were fine.

This company clearly doesn't have their act together but does have time to argue and whine on Yelp. Again, glad I dodged a bullet. Their definition of project would take ten minutes. Ridiculous. Funny and Ridiculous.

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