Evolving Homes Ltd. - Winnipeg

John and his team really know their stuff.

Poor workmanship. Dishonest contractor with poor work ethic. Here in a few points what makes John embury-hyatt the worst contractor from experience. - Not trustworthy. He went over budget by more than $7,000 without letting us know! Cannot rely on his communication either. He constantly contradicts himself for his own benefit. - They never respected the time frame they were given to finish the renovation. The basement was promised to be done within a couple of months back in 2014. It is now 2016 and we are still trying to have the basement completely done. - Quality of his work. We are far from the superior service promised on their website! The quality of the material used is mediocre. We had major issues during Winter 2014: Excess moisture resulting in mold, no warm air coming from the venting outlet, etc. His “work” was assessed by 3 different contractors: * Poor air flow was found in the basement because the basement ventilation was not installed properly. The venting outlets were screwed to the foam ceiling tile (!) and not attached to the air duct. The vapour barrier was not installed properly in the whole basement. The wood ledge was put directly on the concrete with any proper insulation creating excess moisture and risk of mold. * A hole was drilled through the main PVC drainage pipe for both bathrooms. They did not care to fix it which resulting in water damage and loss of some of our personal items. We provided John Embury-Hyatt with a detailed report itemizing each problem through BBB. He still denied the facts. * The bifold door closet was not installed properly. The closet door fell on top of our 1 year old child. He luckily did not get injured. John embury-hyatt was informed of this and yet proceeded to put 2 thick pieces of wood on top of the foam ceiling tile (!) which eventually fell down. We were lucky enough our son was not around at that time. He also decided to cancel our contract without any legal documents. We believe some modification needed to be done and he simply did not want to spend any money to fix his poor work which he never denied. We then served Evolving Homes and John embury-hyatt to the Small Claim Court of Manitoba in 2015. He was then forced to acknowledge his faulty workmanship and was asked to proceed with the necessary repairs. Unfortunately for us, he voluntarily omitted some repairs from the report to save himself some money. At least we got the major issues looked after. John embury-hyatt has no customer service skills and no common sense on how to approach the work simply laid down for him. He is also not afraid to blame us if any repair is required. We have even been threatened with legal actions for sharing our experience with him. Good luck if you still want to go with evolving homes and john.

By Arete Builders Inc on 03/06/2016 (Published on RateABiz) Evolving Homes have been providing us with top quality foundations for our last few projects. John has always been easy to deal with and has always provided us with a top quality foundation to build on. We would recommend Evolving Homes without a doubt.

I had a horizontal crack in my foundation that required repair. Nick and Bob from evolving homes were awesome they took the time to explain exactly what they would do. They were very professional, kept the dust to a minimum which I was quite impressed and clean up after their work. Their workmanship should be something all company strive at achieving. I am very happy with their work and would highly recommend them.