DO NOT build with Kimberley!! That is my advice to you. Our experience has been an utter nightmare from the moment we moved into our home. I believe they are treating us as a second rate buyer because we chose a model in the lower price range. I have no idea how they were voted builder of the year in 2009. The stress they've put my wife & I through has probably taken a couple years off of our life. Here are some of the issues they refuse to fix: 1) our driveway rose heaved 2-3" above the city sidewalk during the first winter. We are the only house on the block with this problem. Yet Kimberley states that it is not their problem, as it is the city sidewalk that sunk. Right.... 2) They built our house with an eavestrough running directly across the front sidewalk right in front of the front entrance. We've had several people step on it or trip over it. It has become a part time job raising & lowering the eaves with the weather changes. We asked why they couldn't have ran it under the sidewalk, and we were told it was clearly outlined in the blueprints. Apparently they think we're Architects... 3) Our basement was not developed, but we agreed that they would frame it. Well it was the lousiest frame job I'd ever seen. We had to have several ares redone (at our own expense) so the drywall could be affixed properly. Very sloppy workmanship. 4) Our powder room smells like a sewer treatment plant. There is a sewer gas odour coming from the sink overflow. We've been fighting this one tooth & nail. They did try changing the sink, which didn't work. Now they're pretty much throwing their hands up in the air saying there's not much else they can do about it. This fight is definitely not over. There are numerous other reasons I would recommend to STAY AWAY FROM KIMBERLEY, but I just thought I would list the main ones that come to mind. I'm so disgusted with our experienc, I would probably never "custom(?)" build a home again for as long as I live.
- Approximate cost of services:
- $540,000.00