JoAnn and Alan in Mississauga

We would highly recommend MIke M & D Buildings and his team for any renovation you might be planning. We hired Mike of M&D to do a complete tear down Kitchen renovation. 

We are absolutely thrilled with our kitchen. it looks so beautiful. Everything from the cabinets, to the counter top, the backsplash to the lighting and the flooring was what we had hoped it would be and more. Mike’s team consisted of Les, Safi, Laura, Walter, Viktor, Antonio and a few others. From the moment we first spoke with Mike, we felt so comfortable with him and felt like we would be in really good hands with him. And it turns out that we felt that way throughout the entire renovation. Whenever we needed to speak with Mike, he was very consistent in taking phone calls, responding to texts or would get back to us promptly. When we were considering who to hire, we talked to a few other people and we just didn’t feel as comfortable with them. Reading Mike’s reviews reinforced our initial impression and that’s why we’d like to write this review for all of you who might be considering hiring him. We don’t have much experience with renovating, but we have worked with a few contractors in the past. A few years ago we chose a contractor because he had done work for other members of our family. I think a lot of people do things this way because of a trust factor. As it turns that was not a great way to choose a contractor as the guy we chose based on our family referral turned out to be totally unprofessional. We were a little hesitant to work with a complete stranger on such a big project, however Mike made us feel very comfortable right from the beginning and was very patient with all of our caution and questions during the hiring process. One of the things we liked the most about working with Mike and all the the people he contracted for us with was how they would think of things that we wouldn’t think to ask to ask for. Some of these things would cost them extra work and not cost us extra money. They were kind enough to treat us with this kind of TLC throughout the project. The people that Mike contracted were also very professional, clean and highly reliable. They kept thinking of things that were helpful to us and doing a lot of nice touches that we did not expect or they would come up with solutions to problems we encountered. They went above and beyond our expectations. In one of the pics we have included you can see a spice wall that we put up. Before we did the reno there was a light-switch in the middle of the wall which made it very difficult to line up the spice racks to look nice. We were so grateful to Walter, the electrician who moved the light-switch to a wall in the living room. Walter also helped us get electricity and cable into the left side of the kitchen which helped us eliminate wires on the floor coming from the living room that needed a strip that was taped down. Also we purchased under the cabinet lighting and Walter created a special electrical outlet that made all wires completely out of sight. There were so many extra things that Walter did that we were so grateful for. Les had suggested the Pot lighting and figured solutions for issues that came up that we were so happy with. Any time you do a renovation there are going to be a few bumps along the way. One of the things that happened to us that was upsetting, might have been partially due to our own inexperience and not knowing what the standards are these days. We chose to have some large drawers instead of cabinets, however we were surprised to find out that even though we had 24 inch deep enclosures, we received 18 inch deep drawers.  Maybe this wouldn’t be an issue for some people but these large drawers were replacing cabinets where we wanted to keep our pots, pans and lots of other cookware/utensils and the 18 inch drawers were not large enough to fit much. Our old kitchen had 22 inch drawers so that’s why we were so surprised to discover that we would receive such short drawers. There was nothing in the detailed drawings showing this Also we have drawer inserts that were working very well for our silverware etc. that would not fit into the 18 inch drawers. The reason we mention this in this review is because we hope that no one else will have a surprise like this just in case you don’t think to discuss this or ask about this before you settle on what you’re hiring them to do. Mike was kind enough to replace the six drawers with six 20 inch drawers at his own expense. Also we had a couple of plumbing issues and Mike was kind enough to take care of the extra costs involved even though we noticed these things a few days after the project was complete and the payment had already been made in full. Mike had told us that this project would take 3 to 6 weeks to complete. Our Reno was finished in 4 weeks. We really appreciated that as well. So everything that we thought Mike would be turned out to be true and he’s the kind of contractor that you can trust to take care of you and make sure that you’ll be really happy with everything that his team does. Thank you so much MIke / M & D Buildings and everyone else involved!!!