We are in the middle of the repair process now. Spangler started out ok, but since I chose my flooring they have provided no timeline other than the date (9/20 and 9/21) and a time (10 am on 9/20). This was to replace flooring and a basement ceiling.
The floor crew was early, cool. But they ended up being here until 11pm RUNNING A SAW OUTSIDE because Spangler didn't schedule the movers for our piano to coordinate with the repair and would have left us with it in the middle of an entryway all weekend. I just had surgery, this is not acceptable. We had to get Jeff on the phone (no one from Spangler is actually here, they are all subcontractors that don't seem to know what needs to be done, which I fault Spangler for to be honest) and I had to get pretty stern with him and get my insurance company involved just to get this fixed. There was also sawdust all over our landscaping brickwork because it is too dark/late to blow it off at 11pm at night!
I don't expect the floor guys to somehow clean at 11pm, but come on....why was this put there to begin with? When I found it it was way too late (3/4 of the floor was put in, it was 7:30 at night).
The basement crew was 2 hours late on Friday. Told me they were on another job and forgot. They had to ask me if they were supposed to put drywall above the exposed pipes in the ceiling, and that this 'made it harder'. Then they left without telling me they were done and left my garage door wide open. I also found an unsealed gap between the ceiling and the foundation. (See the pics)
The basement crew is supposed to come back today to paint and repair the baseboards in the kitchen/hallway. I asked Jeff for a timeline. He told me piano guys at 9:30, cleaning crew and baseboard guys at 10:30. Cleaning ladies came at 10:30, no baseboard guys.
At 11am, we call Jeff back. NOW HE SAYS THE CLEANING LADIES WERE SUPPOSED TO TELL US 1PM FOR THE BASEBOARD CREW. My husband got upset and told him this is nuts and to get the crew here now and call him back with an update. Jeff said yes, but never has, and is now not answering his phone. It is now 12:30pm, and no one answers the phone on the main Spangler number either.
The moral of the story is that Spangler will not treat you as any kind of priority. I guess a $7500 repair isn't enough money to be on time or actually treat a customer with respect.
As of 3:53 pm today the one guy they sent to do the baseboards just put a hole in what he thinks is my freon line for my ac. We now have no ac, on a Saturday. No idea what will happen next.
5:56pm: Greg at Spangler got an HVAC company out. The baseboard guy finished everything except the pantry where the hole is and left, to come back Sunday at 10am to fix the new hole in the wall and finish the original work. I will update this review then.
Additional edit: as of 7pm Saturday, our AC was restored by Pilot Air (those guys were GREAT!). The Spangler subcontractor showed back up at 10:20am Sunday (after agreeing on 10am). Now we wait and see how the rest of this goes.
As of noon Sunday, the repair is completed. It looks good as far as I can tell (waiting for the paint to dry in the pantry). The sub did apologize for the issue. My only issue is really how Spangler handled the whole thing, and I will have to take that up with them if they contact me on Monday as I have requested.
I have to amend this once more. After the drywall/baseboard guy left, we discovered no cleanup done. He had told my husband he would make sure everything was cleaned up that had been left. HE DID NONE OF THAT, and we have a mess all over the basement floor from where they did the drywall. Note in the pics the piece of quarter round with the nail hanging out of it that was in my driveway in particular, and the splatters of spackle mix all over the basement floor. The basement is a basement, but at the same time we were assured by Spangler that their guys clean up behind themselves.
*I have now spoken with Mike as of Monday 9/23 about this. Now we wait to see what is done to address it.