We hired Homestar Builders to do a 6.5KW solar installation. Initially I thought Brad was an employee of theirs. Wrong, he's a subcontractor. Issues started first day--he borrowed several hand tools of mine without permission. We discussed how conduit was to be run, and that plastic conduit was underground and ALL conduit above ground was to be metal. He installed plastic conduit on two long horizontal runs along my block wall and my home contrary to our agreement. I had him remove it. We decided on bury conduit on the side of my home. I warned him of a gas line for the pool equipment and asked him to dig to avoid it. It rented a trenching machine and ran into the gas line. He failed the trench depth of 18 inches--required by code--TWICE, only passing on the 3rd attempt. Poor workmanship, that had to be replaced before it looked professional. On final inspection day, I spoke to a regular electrician of Homestar to get questions answered, and got clear answers to my questions. If Brad can't read a tape measure to pass inspection depth, doesn't have enough simple tools to do cleanup, etc.--he would not be my first choice to do another solar install... read more
Type: Residential Electric
Reviewed: 08/01/2013
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