Northland Construction & General Contracting

I signed a large contract with Wayde owner of this company (see picture attached.) and made the mistake to give him a large deposit.
He claimed to be a general contractor but ultimately was an amateur worker at best and used my deposit against me to keep him on the job.

He made numerous mistakes in all the work he did on my site. luckily i had inspectors checking his work and identifying the errors. while wayde was willing to fix these mistakes he took a long time and significantly delayed my project in the process.

Some key mistakes:
1. Framing work - Wayde drilled large holes at the bottom of several joists in order to pass water lines through instead of making smaller holes in the middle of the joists. large holes at the bottom of joists cause the joists to weaken. he was trying to find a short cut in doing this work.

2. Insulation work - wayde initially only put 1 layer of insulation in the ceiling as opposed to filling the ceiling void completely as per the code. he clearly did not know the code. furthermore Wayde failed to install the vapour barrier all the way to the top of the subfloor and therefore had many gaps in the vapour barrier. he failed insulation inspections 3 times.

3. drywall work - Wayde installed the drywall on the ceiling in an unstable manner so the drywall moved. this work had to be redone.
Also Wayde was quite negligent in his work and covered 3 heating vents in the ceiling with drywall. pure incompetence.

you cannot trust this man for knowing what he's doing or to work with integrity. he certainly does not know the code and often blames others for his mistakes & ignorance. he also takes your deposit and then you're either stuck using his poor services or lose your money.

i highly recommend against hiring this contractor.