CIC, LLC Duane Keith Honeycutt Horrendous months of worry and stress Black Mountain North Carolina

Back in May, my husband and I hired a contractor to build an addition to our house. We were assured by our contractor, Duane Honeycutt, owner of CIC, LLC, the structure would be completed in 3 months. The first step was to remove a stand of bamboo where the driveway to the shop would be. Mr Honeycutt contracted a grading contractor to clear the bamboo and build the driveway and sink into the ground, all but 2 inches of an 18 inch barrier to prevent the bamboo from re-invading the area once it was removed. A good plan except when the job was done, the barrier was as much as 9 inches above ground in some areas. Although some effort was made by Mr. Honeycutt to correct the problems, they fell short, way short. Which we learned to be the usual pattern for this company.

The construction of the addition got off to a roaring start with them placing a footing off center, which would prove minor compared to the fact it was round footings where rectangular footings were called for in the plans!

Then there's the problem of Mr. Honeycutt not having the foresight to hire a sitter for his 8 year old daughter. She hung out at the job site while her dad worked. Then later when summer break was over, Mr. Honeycutt was late since he drove his children to school in another town, then left very early in the afternoon to bring them home again. But the day would come when we would think those days were good because he soon began to be quite scarce on the job site.

His crew was still incompetent so our concerns were that the work would not be completed properly, which was indeed a problem since many mistakes were made by the crew AND by Mr. Honeycutt! Our anxiety continued since even though we were told he would be there to supervise the project, most of the time, he wasn't.

There is much more to this story of the absentee contractor and his slow and incompetent crew. There is theft and more worries about trust and the months wear on with so much more work to be done. Things got worse so finally we had to insist the two senior members of the crew never return to our property again.

It's been 4 months and the living room is not finished and much of the work they did was done incorrectly so must be redone! Our biggest mistake was giving him money before the work was completed. No...our biggest mistake was hiring CIC, LLC in the first place!

He said to me a couple days after work began that nothing had gone right ever since he got his Contractors license. I felt sorry for him and encouraged him to keep trying. It didn't occur to me back then why things hadn't gone well...Now I know.