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    Business ProfileforOakWood Design and Build

    Home Improvement

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1/5stars

    Average of 1 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    3 complaints closed in last 3 years

    1 complaints closed in last 12 months

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    Reasons for BBB Rating

    Products & Services

    This company is a mid to high-end builder of estate homes, additions, kitchens, bathrooms, and home remodeling. They have a system in place to manage all types of projects with detailed project management.

    Business Details

    Location of This Business
    865 Taylor Creek Drive, Ottawa, ON K4A 0Z9
    BBB File Opened:
    25/2/1999
    Years in Business:
    68
    Business Started:
    1/1/1956
    Type of Entity:
    Sole Proprietorship
    Number of Employees:
    67
    Alternate Business Name
    • OakWood Renovation Experts
    • OakWood
    Business Management
    • Mr. John Liptak, President
    • Mrs. Patricia Liptak, COO
    Contact Information

    Principal

    • Mr. John Liptak, President

    Customer Contact

    • Mr. John Liptak, President
    Additional Contact Information

    Fax Numbers

    • (613) 835-9333
      Primary Fax

    Industry Tip

    BBB Tip: How to make your next home improvement project a success

    Customer Complaints

    3 Customer Complaints

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    Most Recent Customer Complaint

    26/05/2022

    Complaint Type:
    Order Issues
    Status:
    Unanswered
    I am presently in a dispute with Oakwood, Designers & Builders Inc. (referred to herein as Oakwood) regarding a major renovation project that has stalled heavily during the very early stages of the design process due to bad service. Through were few, mostly telephone and emails, we reached agreement on an internally reviewed Oakwood proposal document that had increased in scope in a short timeframe. This had turned into a significant project with my verbal agreement to making such a large investment happening hand-in-hand with Oakwoods’ commitments of world class design and build. I was promised that my builder-grade (as the Oakwood project consultant would describe it) kitchen, powder room, laundry room and master bathroom would be featured in magazines and be award worthy. The Oakwood reviewed project proposal was priced $207k+HST (Excludes appliances). [Continued and attached in full as an attachment "BBB-Complaint.docx"] The contract is over 10Mb and cannot be uploaded here due to size. Likewise the proposal is a large document. These two Oakwood documents can be provided separately. I was never provided the countersigned documents by Oakwood. Roger Fortner

    Customer Reviews

    1 Customer Reviews

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    Most Recent Customer Review

    mike s

    1 star

    26/01/2022

    Oakwood did my renovation (pre-COVID) with poor oversight, such that much work by subcontractors were required to be redone. The company did not meet the schedule with an extra year delay. I will never use them again.

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