Maronda Homes of Ohio

I would never recommend anybody to build a house through Maronda Homes. Especially in the Columbus area. In the beginning everything seemed to be going very good. We would drive by the site of our house and check on the progress almost daily. Upon stopping by one day we noticed there was a decent sized brown blob on the basement wall with flies surrounding it. We spoke to one of the workers and he explained to us «one worker had issues and pooped his pants at the neighboring house and had the same issues at this house. He couldn’t make it to the porta John so he pooped on the wall down here.» Was anybody going to clean it? No. Not until We called our general contractor, Lou Hamilton, and complained about it. He told us he would be out the next day to clean it but it took him a week to clean it. During that week we called and talked to the lady who sold us the house she explained to us, sub contractors often do this sort of thing inside the houses as they’re being built, it’s nothing new or anything to be worried about.
We paid extra to have a drain placed in our basement and marked exactly where we wanted them to be placed. During construction we notice they are in the wrong location before the basement floor was poured. We asked Lou about the drains being in the wrong place, he ignored it. So the floor gets poured down the road the plumbing is finished and the drains are in the wrong place. They don’t fix it until after we move in and had to cut parts of concrete out creating a huge mess of white dust upstairs inside the house.
We paid extra to have a rough in placed in every room. We go to our walk through a week before we’re to close and notice the den didn’t have it installed. So we tell Lou this and he says we must have thought we asked for it but didn’t. Luckily I had taken a picture of the entire work order that they post on the sliding glass doors during construction that stated we asked for it to be installed. He tells us if they fix the problem it would push our move in date back. Needless to say after a few calls they fixed it and our date wasn’t pushed back.
During our walk through we noticed the flooring in the kitchen was peeling. We pointed it out and they fixed it. By fixing it somebody came in with glue and placed it where it was separating. They did a crappy job because the glue wasn’t hidden very well you could see it all over the seam.
We had a faulty outlet in our living room so for a month we had to run an extension cord from our den to the living room for anything to work in there.
We wake up one morning to a freezing cold house because our furnace quit working. The pipe on the outside of the house that runs to the furnace never had a screen placed over it so nothing could go inside it. A bird had flown down the pipe and died inside the furnace causing it to quit working. We have been told by everybody we talk to those pipes should be covered.
We got the jacuzzi tub installed through Maronda. First time I use the tub I go downstairs and I hear water dripping. We think nothing of it because there is a drain ran in the wall that we were hearing the dripping come from. Next time I use it we hear the dripping again, which isn’t heard after using the shower. At this point we notice there is a wet line going across our living room ceiling. We go down to the basement and we find a water puddle that is every bit of being 10 ft in diameter about an inch deep. We call Maronda and they say they’ll send somebody out. Their plumber comes to fix it. whoever installed it didn’t place the air flow tube up instead it was just hanging down and the water was being sucked out of the tub, onto the floor under the tub, down the wall and into our basement and living room ceiling. A simple fix of zip tying the tube up fixed the problem.
Within six months of living here all of our carpet in every room has wrinkled. We wait until our one year walk through to tell them about this as we were told to do by Lou since they will only come out once to fix issues.
In our hallway we notice as you walk by our air return you can hear a metal popping noise and see the floor flex ¼ inch. We them about this issue during our one year walk through as well. They fix the moving floor and we are told whoever installed the furnace and flashing took out a brace in the floor and never put it back.
Our shower started leaking into our living room a year later and we still called them because it caused us to have black mold in our ceiling. They fixed it and We were told the seal around the drain should be replaced at least once a year to prevent this from happening.
Almost 2 years later we are still waiting for somebody to fix our flooring issues. Every room is still very wrinkled and more spots are peeling in the kitchen and hall. Would I ever recommend somebody to build through Maronda? Never unless they enjoy having to fix rookie mistakes on a brand new house. Too bad I can’t rate this company in the negative!