XENA BUILDERS GROUP LLC

I have text messages that validate how we tried repeatedly to work with Janek Dziewit. Janek wanted to do the repairs that were easiest on him verses what is what the RainTrex company recommended for a long lasting and durable method. When Janek Dziewit came to our home our first encounter was cordial where we expressed what we wanted to have done to the deck which were. Remove all the Mahogany Wood and Rails Install a RainTrexExcape System on the deck to prevent water from falling down through the deck with flashing with the appropriate flashing on each of the posts and against the house as recommended by Rain Trex another words water tight. Cover the whole deck with AZEK boards Replace the AZEK boards currently there Replace the stairs and rafters Extend the concrete support base at the bottom of the stairs Add Solar Light Bring the whole deck up to code. Add Rain and Ice Shield to the wall of the attached to the house He agreed and wrote up a proposal and we signed it on September 04, 2020 and gave a check for $500.00 to reserve a date to commence . They started the work on March 12, 2021 and finished the deck on March 18, 2021 and paid him the last check of $7,000.00. They collected their complete contract price of $20,846.00. We did have some email exchanges that we had mention that he didn’t complete what he said he would but, my husband did the work rather than have him come out here from Gardner to do it. He said Thank you. On July 9, 2021 at 2:07pm I forward him a video that my basement remodeling contractor send me of water pouring through the 19 screws holes, from the rafters attached to the house where they had installed the flashing incorrectly, and from the posts holding the rails due to the flashing hadn’t been installed properly. I sent photos showing all the screws protruding through the RainEscapeSystem membrane and water coming through the flashing against the house and posts around the deck. On July 28, 2021 at 4:48PM the Inspector who was doing the framing inspection during the remodeling of our basement, who had not come out following at the completion of the deck work, saw the work on the deck and said, The deck failed the inspection and told us what needed to be done on the which I informed Janek Dziewit via Text. I asked Janek Dziewit repeatedly to let me know when he would be coming out since my current contractor wanted to install the ceiling on the deck with lights and Janek would not give me a date to relay to my present contractor. Janek showed up on Friday, August 6, 2021 to start the work. We greeted him cordially and his people started to bring the deck up to code and do the repairs on the TrexRain System. When I noticed how his contractor was doing the work I asked him what he was doing and I said, “The method he was using was not the recommended method recommended by Trex Rain Escape. He then proceeded to inform me, “This is how Janek Dziewit advised me to do it.” I asked him what about the flashing around the house and the posts where the water was coming through. He said, I don’t know, this is how Janek Dziewit told me to do it.” I guess this meant ignore the flashing around the house and posts.This is what they were doing, cutting the littles squares about 1x1inch poured calk through the cracks of the deck boards and squeeze the butyl tape pushing with a wire over the hole. I said, this would not do. I called my husband, who then went out to proceed observe them doing the work and he finally asked them to stop because this fix was a Mickey Mouse solution with the goal of saving them time any money so that they could leave as quickly as possible. There were a minimum of nineteen deck screws which penetrated the RainEscapeSystem membrane which were not adhered to the rafter, each one a possible leak source, and they wanted to simply move the deck screw slightly left or right, creating nineteen new penetrations in the membrane and then apply some tape/caulk and cross their fingers that they adequately sealed not nineteen holes but now 38 holes. Everyone of those holes had limited visual and physical accessibility so there was no way to reliably confirm the holes were properly sealed. They must thought we were very stupid to be willing to except this level of shoddy repair. It may have worked temporarily, but there is no guarantee this was a long term solution. Even one of Janek Dziewit workers stated in front of me and our basement general contractor that he was embarrassed by the fact that nineteen deck screws were installed so poorly. We had to pay another Contractor 23,594.60 to redo Xena's Builders shooty work and are currently under litigation. Janek Dzwiet has been find by the State of Massachusetts. We have been in court since August of 2021 and still going. He has no defense yet is stalling. His LLC is no loner currently and BBC has revoked accreditation. Read more