Beware of this Contractor!!!!!!!!!!
His pictures show that he possibly does good work if you can get past the dishonesty and the non-compliance of many MHIC regulations. He was very nice until he damaged my retainer wall during the tear down of my old deck and I uncovered the fact that he was trying to double the average price of replacing a rim joist on my home, behind the ledger board. He then became very nasty, threw out personal insults and said he was refusing to finish the job if I did not pay him $2,500.00 over and above the contract price and allow him to replace the rim joist. At this point he had $19,064 of my money for a $28,596 job total.
Mr. Bowers is in Breach of Contract for:
* Not obtaining the proper permits
* Removing my old deck without the required permit
* Not cleaning up the area after removing the old deck
* Leaving the property in an unsafe condition
* Requiring more money to be paid to him before the required amount of work was done than the amount allowed by the Home Improvement Commission. He required $19,064 of my money before he had done any work at all for a $28,596.00 job.
* Not providing the proper drawings as stated in the contract
* Giving false information to try to overcharge for the price of work outside of the contract but needed to be done before the deck can be built.
* Walking out on an unfinished job
Complaints
* Damaged my retainer wall and refused to fix it even after admitting that he did the damage. He was going to fix it until I wanted another Licensed contractor to fix the rim joist for less than half of what he was trying to charge me.
* Temporally shut down my supplemental income by walking away from the job without leaving the property in a safe condition.
* Gave me an offer to let him out of the contract and then took it off the table
* He gave me false information in reference to the rim joist that needed to be replaced and was clearly stated that it was not included in the contract. The board was damaged like he said it would be and needed to be replaced, because that is what the new deck was attached to, but his charge was $2500.00 to replace this board, which was an outrageous, unfair price. He told me that this board was extremely dangerous to replace and that the liability to his company was great, therefore warranting the high price. I talked with 2 other LICENSED contractors and the price was between $700 and $800 to replace the same board. The licensed contractor showed me the actual board and explained it does bear some weight, but the majority of the weight is on the floor joists. Mr. Bowers was giving me false information to jack up the price to a very unfair price. Mr. Bowers repeatedly said, "if you don't pay me $2500.00 to fix the rim joist behind the ledger board, I am not going to finish your job". I told him if his price would have been within $200 to $300 of the average contractor rate I would, but I would not pay more than double for the exact same work. read more