Clark Family Kitchen: From Dishwasher Leak to Full Remodel. A dead dishwasher had been leaking under the floor. The Clarks called True Builders after a neighbor referral, mitigated the water damage, and grew the repair into a full kitchen and flooring remodel.
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i remember early on mike telling me you know trust the process you know we'll get you there before you know it you're gonna have a great house back in july our dishwasher died and uh so when we brought in the repair guy he basically told us he couldn't fix it because it had a hole in the bottom and was leaking all over the place so that's when we contacted drew builder and had them come out and mitigate the water damage well by then there was enough water damage that we decided we needed to do cabinet repairs and so we took the next step of we're going to repair cabinets and then basically added to it as we went because it became cabinets then became the whole kitchen then it became flooring and i mean it just kind of kept growing from there as far as the list of things that we did our neighbors next door had their kitchen redone by true builders um within the previous year and so when we had been talking to them about having to redo our kitchen they had mentioned shoe builders and they had a great experience so we went ahead and called your builders i remember early on mike telling me you know trust the process you know we'll get you there before you know it you're gonna have a great house there are a lot of things i like about the completed project um i love my island um i love my floors the floors are amazing and i like them a lot but i absolutely love my kitchen i think they did great i mean i i kind of you know feel like it was you know definitely meet or exceed expectations yeah i would definitely recommend them um you know part for me i would say is just that just the the friendliness um the the feel of you know family in a sense because you know they they they treat the house like it's their house you know and they really want to to make sure it ends up being what we wanted and did whatever they could to make that happen so yeah i would definitely recommend them you
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A dead dishwasher had been leaking under the floor. The Clarks called True Builders after a neighbor referral, mitigated the water damage, and grew the repair into a full kitchen and flooring remodel.
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i remember early on mike telling me you know trust the process you know we'll get you there before you know it you're gonna have a great house back in july our dishwasher died and uh so when we brought in the repair guy he basically told us he couldn't fix it because it had a hole in the bottom and was leaking all over the place so that's when we contacted drew builder and had them come out and mitigate the water damage well by then there was enough water damage that we decided we needed to do cabinet repairs and so we took the next step of we're going to repair cabinets and then basically added to it as we went because it became cabinets then became the whole kitchen then it became flooring and i mean it just kind of kept growing from there as far as the list of things that we did our neighbors next door had their kitchen redone by true builders um within the previous year and so when we had been talking to them about having to redo our kitchen they had mentioned shoe builders and they had a great experience so we went ahead and called your builders i remember early on mike telling me you know trust the process you know we'll get you there before you know it you're gonna have a great house there are a lot of things i like about the completed project um i love my island um i love my floors the floors are amazing and i like them a lot but i absolutely love my kitchen i think they did great i mean i i kind of you know feel like it was you know definitely meet or exceed expectations yeah i would definitely recommend them um you know part for me i would say is just that just the the friendliness um the the feel of you know family in a sense because you know they they they treat the house like it's their house you know and they really want to to make sure it ends up being what we wanted and did whatever they could to make that happen so yeah i would definitely recommend them you
The Clark Kitchen: From a Dishwasher Leak to the Kitchen They Wanted
In July their dishwasher died, and the repair tech delivered worse news: it had a hole in the bottom and had been leaking all over the place. The Clarks called True Builders to mitigate the water damage, and by then there was enough of it that cabinet repairs made sense. Then, as he tells it, the project grew honestly: cabinets became the whole kitchen, the kitchen became the flooring.
The referral came from next door: their neighbors had their own kitchen done by True Builders the year before and had a great experience. Early on, Mike told them to trust the process, that before they knew it they would have a great house, and that is how it landed. "They treat the house like it's their house," he says, and the island, the floors, and the finished kitchen met or exceeded everything they expected.
Appliance leaks: the slow ones are the expensive ones
A burst pipe announces itself. A dishwasher with a pinhole leak quietly feeds water under cabinets and flooring for months, which is why the damage is often severe by discovery day.
- Check under and behind the dishwasher, fridge, and washer yearly for staining, swelling, or musty smell
- Replace rubber washing machine hoses with braided stainless lines; rubber fails from age alone
- A warped toe-kick, lifting floor edge, or soft spot near an appliance is water talking
- If flooring cups or cabinets swell, call for moisture mapping before cosmetic repairs bury the problem
Scope creep versus smart scope
The Clark project growing from cabinets to kitchen to flooring is not a cautionary tale; it is often the rational move. Demolition, dust protection, and crew mobilization are fixed costs you pay once. Adding adjacent work while the space is already open costs meaningfully less than coming back for it in two years, and it avoids the patchwork look of new cabinets against tired floors. The discipline is doing it deliberately: price each addition as a written change order so the growing scope stays a choice, not a surprise.
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