Additions

Chris just completed a major 20' x 30' screened porch addition for us (pictured on his website under "Additions", "Baybrook Porch". We purchased the house in 2021 and knew on the day of purchase that the old screened porch needed to be torn down and a new porch added. The old porch had wooden supports that were bowing, and overall the porch was in bad shape. Chris tore the old porch to the ground, and we rebuilt it with masonary supports. A number of subcontractors were hired to do the footings, steel beam, electrical, etc. and throughout the entire process Chris watched over every detail as if it was his own. Now that the project is complete, he has stopped by to visit and continues to examine the final project to make sure no detail was missed. I had known Chris for several years before this project and knew his personality and attention to detail. When we decided to re-build the screened porch, Chris was the only one we called because I knew I could not find anyone else who was more conscientious. Now that we are finished, we sit on the porch and talk about how perfect it is and how much we love it. I highly recommend Chris and CPR Construction!

We are pleased to recommend Chris Raneri of CPR Construction. We love Cary, we love Lochmere and we love our home. It was missing only one thing, a sunroom. A place where we could enjoy our day with lots of light while protected from the heat and humidity, you know what we mean😎🤓 We hired an Architect soon after moving in and began designing our addition. After a lot of discussion, we had a plan. We sought out three local contractors: a large, medium, and small company. Chris is our neighbor, but we had not met him yet. Our Architect was worried about having our neighbor as our contractor. What if something happened. The large company gave us a bid off the plans. The medium company came, asked lots of questions then came back with a very rough estimate and said they charge $700 to give an exact quote. Chris came, talked with us, came back with the major subcontractors many times. Chris gave us an exact quote. Based on his interest in the job, his dedicated group of sub-contractors, and price we overlooked his being a neighbor and selected him. Then Covid 19 came. We put our project on pause. Once we felt a little better about proper Covid procedures we finalized our contract with Chris and started the project. You will remember Covid related supply chain issues and lumber and material cost increases. We were impacted but we moved forward. The deposit was given in mid-February 2021, demolition mid-March, foundation mid-April with completion early September 2021. While things were progressing, it seemed so slow but was it I don’t know. But we do know we love our sunroom and deck. We do know that Chris was ever attentive to the project. He cared. We do know that the sub-contractors were excellent giving many very valuable suggestions. Looking over the bills yesterday the final cost was higher by about 25%. But we had Covid, supply chain and more significantly all the changes we asked for. Chris was ever mindful of the costs we were incurring and communicated well. In the end we love our new addition. So do we recommend Chris, yes absolutely. And if you are a neighbor don’t worry not only, will you be pleased or like us love the finished product but you will have a new friend.