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In March to July 2020 I signed contracts with Erwin Wallmann of Hylet Construction for framing, foundation, and electrical services for a new house build.
It is June 2021 now and there have been many problems:
- Work quality has been characterized by others in writing as poor, not to industry standards, sloppy, lazy, not workmanlike, manhandling, etc
- He has not done any significant framing or foundation work on site for 10 weeks now and continues to delay. He is not answering my phone calls or emails recently.
- He has refused many requests to provide me a schedule or timeline of his work so that I can schedule in other trades and material deliveries. When I asked him why he is not working he told me he doesn't have to tell me why. He said trades can call him for dates (even though he is not the GC), so apparently he just won't tell ME dates for some weird reason. I did have trades ask him for dates and he still didn't respond.
- He has not paid a sub-trade for window work he approved, he didn't pay my neighbour for electricity use.
- There are approximately 27 known deficiencies, some serious and structural, in his work and he refuses to say how or when he will fix them and some he refuses to fix at all. Some floor joists are bearing less than a half inch.
- An engineer gave a stamped report indicating the garage grade beam must be completely replaced and Erwin disagrees and said he will not replace it and that he is not bound by my engineer
- He sent misleading photos showing foundation waterproofing on the wall and said it was applied everywhere, but later said it was not like in the picture, and upon review it appears there is no waterproofing other than where the picture was taken.
- He set LVL beams bearing directly on the ICF EPS insulation (i.e. 0" on concrete) instead of 4" of concrete that the plans called for. He told me a steel beam was bearing 3", which is code, but it was 2 5/8" and the plans called for 4"
- He has recently said he wants my exterior security camera taken down before he returns to site. That camera is to monitor for material theft for my materials he left lying on the lot instead of installing months ago
- I paid an invoice from him for MB Hydro connection last year and MB Hydro has informed me that they were never paid.
- The house is essentially the same as it was back in February 2021 (4 months ago)
- He refused to provide proof of his insurance
- He is acting as prime contractor but he has left the front door wide open and left the site unattended multiple times in a neighbourhood with children who could have come in and fell through into the basement rocks. When I asked him about this he said "so what" and said children will never come in, however I have security cam footage showing kids walking up the steps to the house.
- He changed the locks to bar me from accessing my own house despite my lawyer telling him that I am entitled to freely access my own property
- He said all trades must schedule with him to get into the house but then he did not respond to a request for access for my trade. Then his own trade had to break into the garage to get access to the house to work because he didn't provide them the lockbox number
- He has charged unauthorized items to my EG Penner account for building supplies such as garage pile concrete which was his obligation to pay for
- I've seen him not using safety gear on the roof and he said he fell off, he said he fell off the steel beams into the basement, no glasses while cutting rebar, he dropped a hammer from the roof while me and others were below on the main floor which could have hit us
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This Steinbach area general contractor is rated 1.0 from 1 review. Services offered include home improvement work. Read their reviews, ask about license and insurance information, and request a quote.
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