30 X 45 X 14 Horizontal Roof / Vertical Walls 3- 12 X 12 Roll-Up Doors
5 STARS AMANDA, best sales person I ever dealt with, super responsive! Thanks Amanda
2 STARS Installation crew showed up the next day. Installer came straight to me and went over layout to assure it was what I ordered. Next, he asked me “where is the lift?” I was never told that I would need to have a lift. Purchase documents said that buildings 14 ft and taller may require lift. Where I live, business is booming and no rental companies had a lift available. I do have a tractor with loaded that will reach 11 -12 feet, but it was not tall enough. I let the installer use my tractor which sped up the process. Luckily, I know a lot of other contractors and was able to rent a lift form one of them, $375.00 I wasn’t planning on spending.
1 STAR When the walls and roof were complete, they tired to install the roll up doors and 2 would not fit due to being too close together. Spec for front of building 16ft wall – 12 X 12 door – 1ft wall – 12 X 12 door – 3ft wall. When they attempted to install the 2 roll up doors, they were to close together and would not fit. My options were to move the center drive through door (then drive through would not line up) or lose 12in of my 3ft wall allowing more room between the doors, or tear the wall out and wait for more material to rebuild the entire wall. I chose to compromise my 3ft wall to allow more room for the doors to fit. I designed this with a 3ft wall so the $2000.00 in custom shelving I ordered would fit behind the 3ft wall, obviously I cannot do that now and have to be super careful when pulling in that bay to avoid hitting the shelving, big inconvenience when this amount of money is spent to get exactly what you want. This delay also cost me another day’s rental on the lift and another day off work. When expressing my concern of the extra cost and the extra day off work, the response was an apologize but I do not have to be on site so I could have gone to work. In my county, when you pull an older builder permit, the rule state that the owner must be always on-site, if you are not there at all times, you risk a $1000.00 fine.
1 STAR Once the door spacing was reconfigured, and the doors were installed, only 2 of the 3 doors close properly. I gave the contractor the check while they were finishing the last door as I had to leave for an emergency and did not want the contractor to have to wait for me to get paid. When I returned, this is when I found a 3in gap under one door where it’s supposed to close flush with the floor on one side, it was touching on the other side of the door (left vs. right). The second door had the same issue with a 1.5 in gap. The 3rd door closes all the way to the floor but is hard to open making a violent rubbing /scratching sound. I was shocked that they left it like this, highly obvious it was not correct.
On Monday after the install was complete, check given to contractor, paid in full, I contacted Carport 1 to report the issue with the doors. It took 4 days for someone to reach out to me after multiple attempts to contact them. I was told that they would address the concern and it normally takes about 3 days. Going on 4 weeks now, I still have doors that will not close properly, sand blowing under the doors covering my equipment worth thousands of dollars. Multiple emails and phone conversations later, I was informed that my only option was to wait until another installer was in my area installing another building and they would come repair the doors. I requested them to contract a local door company to fix the doors, I was quickly informed that this was not an option. Very frustrating to spend $30,000.00 with a company who has stellar reviews and end up with a workmanship like this, and no clear solution or time frame to resolve the problem. If I were a betting person, I would say that I will probably end up absorbing the cost to correct the door issue as I have no confidence there will be a solution anytime soon. DO NOT PAY UNTIL YOU INSPECT OR YOU COULD BE IN SAME BOAT AS ME.