Complaint Review: Howard Homes - Seattle washington

Licensing & Insurance Violations List, between 2022 and 2023.

 

 

Howard Homes Contractor License Type: Masonry.

 

 

 

Location 1

Date (range): July 2023 - Present

Violations: 

- Installed electrical fountain pump

- Installed new electrical line to fountain, spliced into existing circuit

- Installed step-light fixtures

- Installed lantern fixtures

- Installed new plumbing to accommodate fountain

- Installed appx. 400sqft of tile

 

Location 2

Date (range): October 2023

Violations: 

- Reframed roof trusses

- Installed underlayment and asphault shingles on roof

 

Location 3

Date (range): April 2023 - June 2023

Violations: 

- Installed cedar roof on church spire

- Performed structural welding on spire's steel superstructure

- Installed metal spire

 

Location 4

Date (range): September 2022 - June 2023

Violations: 

- Full kitchen remodel:

> Demolition and waste disposal

> Rough framing of kitchen

> Electrical complete rewire of kitchen, including: new electrical lines, installing new breaker switches into the circuit breaker box

> Plumbing, including: routing drainage for dishwasher, sink, and ventilation

> Installing plumbing fixtures: dishwasher

> Insulation installation

> Drywall installation

> Cabinet installation

> Door installation

> Painting

> Lighting fixture installation

> Outlet fixture installation

> Switch installation

- Exterior work:

> House moving work, including: raising the SE corner of home 2 1/2 inches

> Reframing the crawlspace

> Insulating the crawlspace

> Installing siding

> Framing a nitch for the kitchen windoww

> Window installation

> Fence installation

- Interior:

> Tiling on fireplace

 

Location 5

Date (range): September 2022

Violations: 

- Demolished existing driveway

- Excavated dirt to regrade driveway slope, using heavy equipment

- Installed rebar mesh

- Built concrete forms

- Installed strip drainage system

- Poured concrete driveway slab

 

Location 6

Date (range): April 2022 - October 2022

Violations:

- Demolished existing driveway

- Excavated dirt to regrade driveway

- Installed rebar mesh

- Built concrete forms

- Installed catch-basin drainage system tied into city sewer

- Poured driveway concrete slab

- Installed wire boxes and step lighting into masonry wall

- Spliced above lighting system into existing house circuit

 

Location 7

Date (range): July 2023

Violations:

- Demolished existing concrete steps in a spa environement (sauna) (temperature exceeded 115 degrees Farenheit)

- Installed rebar into new steps

- Built concrete forms

- Poured new concrete steps

- Grouted tile inside sauna

- Painted sauna walls

 

Location 8

Date (range): May 2022 - August 2022 

Violations:

- Removed load bearing supports from front deck

- Raised front deck 2" with a jack system

- Reframed deck

- Fabricated staircase leading to deck

- Sanded and refinished hardwood floor of deck

- Removed, reinstalled, and refinished front door

 

Location 9

Date (range): August 2023 - September 2023

Violations: 

- Installed rebar mesh on existing garage slab

- Poured new concrete onto existing garage slab

- Painted existing garage door

 

Location 10

Date (range): June 2023 - July 2023

Violations: 

- Excavated egress window wells

- Installed egress windows