Fourteen Estates Ltd

We absolutely love our new house that Fourteen Estate built for us. My husband and I thank Shawn, Rick, Nick, Travis, Randy and all of Fourteen Estates Teams for working with us in creating this amazing finish product.

Randy the construction site super blew away our expectations, He made sure stuff got done on the job site and done right. He is a fantastic communicator, clean and attention to detailed.

The thing I am most satisfied about Fourteen Estate is that they built our dream house, our way, exactly how we imagine it to be, my husband and I designed our home and are really pleased with the end result.

The other reason why we consider ourselves fortunate, is fourteen Estate has a Builder’s Trend System, which create transparency and accuracy.

The workmanship is detailed and of high quality. They have a way of treating their customers like family.

Shawn Vice President of Fourteen Estate treated us with respect from the time we contact his office until the time we close our new home.

Thank you Shawn and your amazing Team, Keep up the great work

We cannot believe it has been one year already!!!
We move to this beautiful house last year January and still feels like day one.... Excitment , enjoying and love every little momaries we made through building of this house.
Thank you again Rick , Shawn and entire team of Fourteen Estates for making our dream come true and building us such a spectacular home.

I have worked on many, many custom homes and the success of my work depends on the quality of the builder. These guys are on of the best builders I have worked with.

Award winning builder in entire Durham region. Best high quality work and unique designs . Great customer service. Always come back for repairs and touch ups .
So far we are happy !!!

Crazy over priced builder! A nice custom built home should cost $250-$275 a square foot and that is what these guys quote until you buy your lot. Once you are stuck the price suddenly becomes $350+ per square foot! Stay away from them! They have their friends add favourable google reviews but very few of those people have purchased anything from them. They are not to be trusted!

Review Update - July 14, 2018

It's been almost a year now since 14 Estates walked off our build and we continue to deal with the aftermath every single day. We have discovered SO MUCH since they removed themselves from the project. When they initially walked off the project, our main concerns were the major overages and charges on the invoicing but we've come to discover that the budget issues are literally nothing compared to what we've found.

There are SO MANY issues with our house with the absolute main issue being that 14 Estates ONLY HAD 3 BUILDING INSPECTIONS completed as they were building. We have obtained proof of this and are now working with our municipality in order to try to rectify all the major noted deficiencies that were found during the inspections as well as now literally tearing the house apart so inspections can be done that were supposed to be done as they were building. The 3 inspections that were completed were:

1. Footings inspection - major deficiencies noted and the city has informed us that they did not correct them for their approval therefore the city now wants us to jackhammer though to the foundation footings to prove if the deficiencies were corrected or not (our basement is fully finished with fully hydro heated flooring, concrete overlay and glued down hardwood flooring).

2. Foundation inspection - major deficiencies noted and the city has informed us that they need us to excavate areas of our foundation if we cannot prove to them that the noted deficiencies were corrected.

3. Partial framing and rough in plumbing - major deficiencies noted and this was the last inspection they had. The city has informed us (and inspected the site themselves) that they never received any follow up calls from 14 Estates requesting the re-inspections after the initial inspections.

That was it...3 inspections on our building permit. We now have a bunch of engineers ($$$$) doing inspections on the house and they have found serious issues with the house that do not follow the Ontario Building Code rules and regulations.

Here are some of the major deficiencies in the house that we need to repair in order to obtain an occupancy permit as well as other issues we've dealt and are still with:

* Code and plans call for a huge fire barrier in our attic...there are NONE
* Serious structural issues
* Approx. 14 current roof leaks (causing ongoing drywall damage)
* Roof system is not to code
* Ventilation (attic) system is hugely LACKING
* Many (over a dozen) broken roof trusses
* Incorrectly installed Tyvek (not wrapped over walls to cause a seal)
* No insulation in the corners of framing
* Outdoor fireplace collapsed
* Mould (had to have professional remediation done)
* NOT one room has acceptable drywall/mud finish
* Serious issues with many doors and seals (outside elements blow in)
* Exterior stone literally sagging and falling down
And the list can go on and on but unfortunately, I am limited on character allowance.

In this entire experience dealing with 14 Estates, we feel we have been bullied, threatened, disrespected, mislead, disgraced and defamed by 14 Estates. Thankfully I have complete proof and evidence to stand behind every single word I've written and we have decided that our story and experience needs to be shared in hopes of helping others. They have also brought a $15,000,000 defamation lawsuit against me because I wrote a review about our experience with them. Please take a look at all of the pictures that I have attached but please note that this is only approx. 5% total of the actual amount of pictures that we have.

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Original review:
WAY over budget, extremely bad quality, so many issues with the house (black mould, roof leaks in more than 5 locations, all flat roofs need to be fully replaced (we've been told they won't last a year), drywall ceiling cracks to more than 3500 sq. ft of drywall), a SERIOUS lack of project management and so so much more. We have had to hire our own trades to fix all of the issues and finish the house because 14 Estates walked from the project as soon as we questioned invoices. Instead of answering our many emails asking them to justify invoice amounts they have invoiced us for - they opted to put a lien on our house instead (3 days following the last set up bills the sent). We asked many times for clarification on invoices and stressed that we have absolutely no issue paying for invoices that are correct but we want them clarified before we pay (we even offered to let our lawyer hold the money 'in trust' to prove we wanted to pay.

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