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Castle Home Developers and Bill Griffiths

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.

Forest Kitchen & Bath, Long Island

Has anyone done business with Bill Griffiths under the business name Forest Kitchen & Bath? They are located in Glen Cove, NY on the north shore of Long Island. They claim to do bathroom and kitchen renovations but they also do construction – although be warned — Forest Kitchen and Bath is not licensed nor insured to do the construction work on any renovation!

We hired Bill Griffiths, who does business under both of these business names — Forest Kitchen & Bath and Castle Home Developers. He created nearly $100k in damage! And dealing with the insurance companies has been horrible as a result. This feels to me like a fraudulent operation. There are at least two formal complaints at the Village of Sands Point. When I investigated with the Nassau County Department of Consumer Affairs, I learned that many of his subcontractors are not licensed in Nassau County.

If you are looking to build a home, renovate a home, renovate a kitchen, or bathroom — I would recommend avoiding at all costs working with Forest Kitchen and Bath, Castle Home Developers, and Bill Griffiths. It is a recipe for disaster. In the north shore of Long Island there are so many contractors and builders — in Port Washington, Sands Point, Glen Cove, Greenvale, Brookville, etc., with so much experience building custom homes and doing home renovations. Definitely do your homework and hopefully this site will help you as you are researching your next project.

Bill Griffiths contractor reviews

When we were looking to build a pool and a cabana we asked for referrals from our friends and our real estate agent. Ultimately we went with the recommendation from our agent. I must say, we otherwise really like our real estate agent who found us our home in Sands Point and sold our home in Port Washington. We normally trust her judgement and recommendations implicitly. She connected us with Bill Griffiths to do home renovations when we first purchased our home. We chose not to work with him at the time. We did however go back to him when we had a major project that required a general contractor and builder.

Hiring Bill Griffiths for new construction was a mistake we will regret for a long time

When you hire a contractor you want someone who is qualified, reliable, licensed and insured, and has a track record and great referrals. The biggest mistake we made was not checking multiple references. If we had tried to do so we would have easily found some red flags and avoided this fate. The sad irony is that friends of ours used him for a project that seemed to have went pretty well, with some minor issues. I only hope for their sake that there are no ticking time bombs that will cause undue costs, and even worse — safety issues — over time.

Here we are now over a year into the project, it is not completed, we have $96,000 of damage to fix, and we don’t have a finished product to enjoy. Hopefully we will have the construction fixed before the summer and my family can finally enjoy what we set out to build.

Buyer beware of incapable, subpar contractors! Wish we did more homework on this guy!