Jdh Woodwork & Contracting

I had John and JDH Woodwork back to fix my porch this year. I got several estimates and John was the only person to tell me that his estimate could be essentially meaningless once he got under the porch (i.e: There could be massive rotted wood, masonry issues, etc that he just couldn’t account for until taking it apart); none of the other people I obtained estimate from even mentioned that the project could balloon. Everyone else’s omission of this scenario is why I chose John to do the job.
Low and behold he takes off the decking and the project does in fact increase in scope. I worked from home for those first 2 days just to see what was going to happen and holy moly is was a dang mess under there and I’m surprised the whole thing didn’t collapse. I had to have some brick work done on my foundation where the porch had damaged the house and the corner pier was completely eroded. While I was disappointed that it wasn’t a nice easy project, I was very thankful that John had prepared me for this.
Not only was John honest with me from the beginning, his work was well executed, and he was respectful of what I told him my absolute maximum budget was for the project and stayed under it.
I will be having him back to do as many projects as he and his crew are able to handle.