Blow-outs! Voids! Grossly out-of-plumb & unlevel walls! Structural defects! While this sounds like a nightmare, these were just a few of the realities experienced by one homeowner when their ICF basement construction project was handed over to an Eco-Block inexperienced and untrained crew.
From the first day on the home site we began to suspect that Eco-Block ICF Distributor Mark Allen may not be the experienced contractor that he had claimed to be. While Eco-Block was the first to represent Mark Allen as an experienced ICF builder, the truth was, neither he nor his crew had the skills necessary to complete the job successfully. These issues finally surfaced on the day of the ICF basement wall pour (which took 25+ days to complete due to the lack of a minimally trained ICF crew) when the reality of the Allen’s lack of Eco-Block installation knowledge began to be revealed in disastrous ways.
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On the day of the wall pour we were shocked when our foundation contractor alerted us to the cheap T-posts (fence posts) that Mark Allen had inserted into the ICF wall …
A picture is worth a thousand words, and in this case might save you thousands of dollars. Get up close and personal with detailed photos depicting a disastrous ICF installation …
Runaway Bay, keep a close eye on your city resources and treasury, you now have a Fox named Mark Allen in your Hen House. Does the City of Runaway Bay have …
I was recently made aware of a disturbing situation mentioned in a comment that was posted in the blog: Mark and Mary Allen owe judgment for $45,000.00 .
I was informed …
The Better Business Bureau was contacted in the very beginning regarding Eco-Block and ARXX. I consider my time my most valuable asset and the time I spent hoping for some …
We were invited to attend the Construction Expo at the Dallas Convention Center on January 28, 2009. ARXX/Eco-Block continue to claim they were not aware of our damage or law suit, …
