This site is set up to share one family’s experience hiring this Long Island contractor to build a pool house for us. Castle Home Developers left us with $96,000 in damage, an incomplete structure that is getting more damaged every time it rains because the brand new construction leaks. How can you have new construction and it leaks? That’s simply unacceptable. The owner of Castle Home Developers, Bill Griffiths “tried” to fix the leak several time, all unsuccessful — because the cause is not trivial — the house was constructed incorrectly and now an entire finished section needs to be torn down and rebuilt! We are currently battling Castle Home’s insurance company, and probably eventually taking him to court. We have found more cases of residents in Port Washington, Sands Point, and other parts of the north shore in Long Island who had similar bad experiences with Castle Home Developers and the owner Bill Griffiths – in one case with over $1million in damage and hospital visits!
You hear about nightmare stories with contractors and I thought that we protected ourselves with the contract terms we agreed to, but clearly there is so much more that can go wrong. Bill Griffiths is a contractor who claims to have been doing this work for 40 years – but yet the poor decisions and shoddy work were rampant. We should have seen the writing on the walls earlier. That said, when we did realize the issues in the substandard quality of his work early and we addressed it, he discounted our very common sense observations that there was an underlying structural issue that needed to be resolved. Rather than systematically investigating and figuring out how to solve the issue, Bill Griffiths continues to put band aids on the problem. Eventually we realized that Bill Griffiths and Castle Home Developers are simply unqualified to build homes or perform significant construction, and we served him a notice for breach of contract and we are pursuing every remedy available to fix this massive problem he left us with. It isn’t easy. The stress and displacement he has caused to our family, and now the financial burden of cleaning up his mess, is just a nightmare.
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