Lindal Cedar Homes
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Lindal Cedar Homes has 1.0 star rating based on 4 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
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Pros: Nice aesthetic design.
Cons: Engineering and architectural designs not weather proof.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Find another company".
The aggregated data is based on reviews and questionnaires provided by PissedConsumer.com users.
Lindal Cedar Homes has 1.0 star rating based on 4 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Nice aesthetic design.
Cons: Engineering and architectural designs not weather proof.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Find another company".
Consumers are not pleased with Advertised vs Delivered and Customer service. The price level of this organization is high according to consumer reviews.
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Verified Reviewer | Aliquippa, PennsylvaniaNo one answers the phone or returns calls after leaving messages
User's recommendation: Find another company
No integrity, lying about costs, etc...
Take $40-100k AND flush it down the toilet. Equivalent to buying a LIndal Homes.
Biggest losers and liars on the planet. Bottom line, kids who never work for anything in their life will always destroy what their parents worked for because they don't have to go through the sacrifices it takes to build company. Only 1% of kids who inherit business actually are taught to appreciate and value customers. My point?
Really want to give 10s of thousands $$ to kids who run a company who spent Daddy's money vs actaully taking the time to run the company correctly? Karma will come. Shame folks steal, lie and take people's hard earned $$ that folks work a lifetime for. If you are having issues, get a lawyer whose willing notify everyone here and others a "build" a class action lawsuit and put this company out of business.
If it's bad with them right now, stop, get the lawyer and don't proceed. Hope and faith will be lost. Fact. And loss of more money will happen.
Don't dig the grave deeper. Thank you to everyone for the reviews. You literally saved folks millions by warning everyone.
Get a better builder. Pictures lie.
Preferred solution: Company going bankrupt would be best solution
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Verified Reviewer | Seattle, WashingtonGet design plan reviewed by actual architect and engineer before building!
We own a Lindal cottage, known as a Prow Star, designed by Lindal Cedar Homes in Seattle, WA.
Our Lindal home suffered major structural damages including a collapsed balcony, leaks and water intrusion damage into the building envelope, which we believe resulted from defects in Lindals design. Lindal has refused to take responsibility for the problem and has refused to rectify the damage.
Last week we posted our concerns on Lindals Facebook page to see if anyone else has had similar problems and to warn other owners to look for these issues before they build. Lindal deleted our post asking for help and blocked us so we cannot post any further information.
We have been paying very high annual maintenance costs since the structure was built in 1993. Despite all these efforts we are in a losing battle to save the structure as it's currently built.
Here is a view of our cottage and the balcony before it collapsed:
https://imgur.com/T3alfy6
Our collapsed balcony:
https://imgur.com/SMVhPiA
See this video of an authorized Lindal contractor inspecting our property and being informed of our situations:
We discussed the design flaws here: https://youtu.be/EIJsa9V7WAA?t=210
We discussed the losing battle caused by the design flaws here:
https://youtu.be/a-H2-xIbnt8?t=550
It was expertly built but unfortunately followed the Lindal plans which we now believe contained defective design elements.
Some of the design elements that we believe are responsible for damage include:
- The porch ledger board is attached directly to the 2 x 8 T &;;;;;; G siding. Water flows between the ledger board and the siding then becomes trapped.
It then travels through the T&G joint spilling down behind the wall between the back of the siding and Tyvek. Once there, it works through the seams where the Tyvek panels are taped together then into the plywood sheathing, framing, etc.
See the design here: https://imgur.com/VMkOReK
You can see the design flaw here: https://youtu.be/2mfmRSCczkA
- The Roof-line design which directed a water pour-off directly against the side of a major structural glulam beam.
Photo showing the pour-off and glulam beam: https://imgur.com/E3xSBAM
You can see the evidence of water pour off here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=663KZYUvFlI
Video detailing the issue here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6umMHoxbls
- The lack of internal flashing behind the siding over the tops of the window heads. Also, the lack of window flanges around the perimeter of the Lindal supplied windows. Lindal wood windows from the 1990s are attached directly (via brickmould) to the siding of the cottage.
The result, demonstrated below, is that once the water begins flowing between the back of the siding and Tyvek it travels on the Tyvek as it (the Tyvek) wraps under the top jamb of the window framing.
The water then drops from the Tyvek and it rains from the top of the window jamb onto the sill below inside the cottage.
See the design here: https://imgur.com/MCE3Ltw
It pains us to leave this review but we feel that it is Lindals responsibility to address these problems. This is a family cottage and repairing the damage to our cottage will be a great financial burden to our family.
- Nice aesthetic design
- Engineering and architectural designs not weather proof
Preferred solution: Lindal complete the repairs or reimburse repair costs
Window problems
Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution
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I was looking at the company for a build in Ontario Canada. Now that I have read a couple of reviews, I will definitely not call them.
You put it well; we mean to give our kids the world ! But if they never earn the character building it takes, through self denial, postponed gratification, accountability for mistakes etc etc, they never learn a great work ethic.
sense of duty and responsibility. Most of life is grunt work