Lisa Karcher
1/5
•April 2023, hired Eq-Wine covers to build us a 40x60 enclosed barn (40x48 enclosed, 12 ft porch), sliding barn doors on each end. We were told the barn would take 6 weekends to build.
•Construction didn't begin until Sept. 2023 because of a range of excuses.
•When installing framing, I was told a they would need a heavier beam than accounted for, I had to pay an extra $1000 to fix.
•Roof installed multiple times due to faulty material from supplier. Initial roof installed October.
•Late December I have a call with Rod, taking too long to move forward. I was repeatedly yelled at, said it’s not his fault, refused to use a different provider, wanted me to call his supplier and when I told Rod it’s not my job his response was that it’s not his job either.
•Roof finally installed in February.
• Rod didn’t account for the posts to be spaced correctly for stall frames for front and back doors. Frames have to be welded to outside posts. Frames are un-level.
•Had multiple discussions about tack room roof. Rod ultimately decides he didn't want to put the roof on it anymore. Even though this had been agreed upon.
•Rod decided barn doors needed footers and I had to hire a concrete person to put them in at an additional cost of $4k.
•Since Rod said concrete wasn't his problem, didn't want to be there for the pouring, had to have concrete fixed multiple times because barn was out of square and Rod didn't want to wet set track as is standard practice.
•Tried to send me new labor bill for building barn doors that were already on our contract. When I say no, he yells at me, cusses at me and says he will "just have to eat it."
•Rod admittedly forgot to account for space over stall doors when ordering material. Even though it is enclosed in the renderings he provided and says enclosed on the contract, he tries to add $5k in labor and over $3k in material to enclose.
All in all we are left with this...
1. A huge gap between the breezeway door sides and the barn walls. Something we were assured would be fixed with weather stripping.
2. A trim piece/overhang above the barn doors on the side without the porch that is not wide enough to actually cover the door so that when it rains the rain pours in the doors.
3. There are no stoppers or anything to keep the doors from coming out of the track if they are opened too far. Again, huge safety risk.
4. Still no ceiling on the tack room.
5. Still an open 5ftx48ft gap on one side of the barn.
6. No barn door handles.
7. Gaps in the tongue and groove on all stall panels since the wood wasn’t cut to fit properly
8. Super dirty doors from leaving material scattered about for months.
9. Several other issues.
•In all, this barn will be costing us over $10k more than we expecting due to his mistakes and oversights and we will have to pay someone else to fix his mistakes which will be even more money.
•He left the work area an absolute mess for the entire duration of the project. Material everywhere, unorganized, just clutter, trash and chaos.
•We are not naive in thinking this entire build would go off without a hitch but the lack of oversight, planning, preparedness and unapologetic incompetence with this project was on another level.
•After all the issues we had, I recently decided to check with the State Contractor Board. No license for Eq-Wine Covers, Rod’s Farm and Ranches or Rod Kirby himself. So they are operating improperly and probably illegally doing these installs that they offer to do. I did not think to check initially because I naively thought they were a reputable business.
•We are beyond disappointed with Rod and his company. Throughout this process Rod has been full of excuses, lacked professionalism, been a total chauvinist and been outright difficult. He would go through periods of being angry, rude and difficult and then have lucid moments where he would panic and apologize and ask if we were all good and say he didn’t want a bad review. Well Rod, you’re getting a bad review.
PS There is so much more I could add but I have reached the max character limit
