Finishing the Unfinished

UPDATE: I wrote this review a year ago, and have since had Eric do a whole bunch more work. His work has continued to be excellent, and something I didn’t mention about Eric seems important to say now: He is just such a truly nice man. A year ago I wrote, «He is the best!» And now, after living in our house and seeing his fine work every day for a year, and calling him back to do even more work, I still think he is the best.
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Eric does a fantastic job of looking at your whole house as a system. We asked him to help us out because we had gotten some flooding and our basement bathroom had a lot of mold. He did a great job, put in a proper drainage system, and fixed a lot of details along the way. He knew we planned to add a powder room to the second floor, so got it plumbed in before he filled in the concrete. Some contractors just come in and do the job you tell them to do and no more. Because Eric has architecture skills and construction skills, he sees more than many contractors do. He spots potential problems that he explains to you, and also sees ways that he can save you future costs, then he makes informed suggestions to you in advance so that you can make a better decision about how to renovate your home.
We have an older home with a lot of quirks, to the extent that we would have contractors come to give a quote and then never hear from them again. We really needed someone like Eric. I talked to a lot of contractors in Edmonton after moving here two years ago, and became increasingly depressed about having to spend a fortune going piecemeal or having to spend a fortune on contracting companies that wouldn’t even give us a quote until we had given them thousands of dollars to start the job. I was just about ready to give up, then I found Eric. He can deal with just about anything. He is the best!