Kitchen Remodeling in Rochester, NY

I hope that I'm leaving this review in the right place. We did not have our kitchen remodeled, but we hired Oaks/Graves Brothers Construction for an exterior construction project. The team was fantastic, from beginning to end. I live in a very old house; we needed a severely water-damaged deck-type structure at the front of the house to be completely removed & replaced (the "deck" covers part of an old root cellar). It turned out that to make the structure waterproof (absolutely essential), it required a rather complicated bit of team-work between Oaks's carpentry and construction crew & their roofing unit. Bryan A. was the project manager, and he was personable, professional, and communicative. He always made sure to keep us updated and informed as to our options and our progress. John C was the lead construction engineer/carpenter on the project. He was friendly, knowledgeable, skilled, and efficient. After John had torn out the old deck, he noted a problem with the underlying structure -- a water damaged & severely rotten load-bearing beam that needed to be replaced. I was rather distraught about the discovery, but John reassured me that he could almost certainly come up with a solution that didn't require knocking out walls and such in my 175 year old house. Indeed, John & Bryan worked out a plan to shore-up everything and to replace the rotten beam. Then John (with the diligent help of Joe and Nathan) executed the job, with only a single extra day added to the project, in order to remove & to replace the old rotten beam. Amazing. The roofing crew arrived and completed their work in short order; then John & Nathan finished the project. The new deck is beautiful and sturdy, and it seamlessly blends with the architecture of the house. I'm thrilled! John, Nathan, and Joe did an excellent job. Not only were they extremely hard workers, they also told me a lot about the construction of my home and about various building techniques that were used in the 1850s when the house was built. These guys functioned not only as top notch construction & carpentry professionals, they were also (essentially) historians, structural engineers, artists, and architectural archeologists. They were also friendly, competent, and completely reassuring. When the project was finished, Bryan called to make sure that we were happy with the final product, and he insured that all of the extra materials & refuse were picked up and removed within a day of completion. Overall, I'm absolutely delighted. The cost of this project wasn't cheap (what is these days?), but it was certainly reasonable, given the extensive work that needed to be done. In the future, should we have any other construction or renovation projects, we will definitely call Oaks, and I would, without hesitation, recommend Oaks to others. Many thanks to John, to Nathan, to Joe, to Bryan, & to the roofing crew for a top quality job done well!