NOPE. ZERO stars if allowed. DO YOUR RESEARCH with the Washington State Courts online system BEFORE you hire Ace Works. I have a pending CRIMINAL case against Tom for theft of materials with the Kitsap County Prosescutor's office. He took items not once but two times in a three day period (he did return one of the items in question when I asked him). Two days was the ONLY time he was on the job (total of no more than 4-6 hours where he also stated he did not finish the work, which I have electronic record of) and on the third day, he arrived at my home and illegally entered when he agreed and acknowledged my request hours before his arrival that he was NOT to be at my home that day and took ANOTHER item he did not have permission to take. He agreed to NOT show up until the following day for his next scheduled work day but still came by to take something that he could take to the recycler and get money for. He did NOT take off with any of the demo debris or garbage that would have cost him money to haul away, only the item with value.
He also unnecessarily took 250lbs of copper (he provided me the receipt from the recycler) from my bathroom walls leading me to pay another plumber to replace the removed piping with PVC. The cost of the copper on the COMEX was worth $1300+ that day. He received $7,500 for payment and when confronted with the theft agreed to return my funds and the cost of one of the items he took. He did not return the funds until I filed a police report 4 months later. His payment was still short thousands of dollars. He told the deputy he expected me to take him to court to get the rest of the payment. He has been sued so many times that this is second nature for him. Unfortunately, this is a criminal case, not a civil case and it would likely have suited him to return the funds he agreed to pay back.
He has a long history of lawsuits with an additional suit against his wife as the company owner. You can find the link showing suits against him in the state of Washington going back to 1995.
To view the lawsuits against him and his wife including those from the Kitsap County and Department of Revenue (tax warrants), click the link below and type in Kulick, Thomas (Alden): Kulick, Diana.
https://odysseyportal.courts.wa.gov/odyportal
Click Smart Search and enter their names.
When filing in the Case Search info you will need to pull up county or municipality by the drop down list. Choose 1995 as a starting point and click each municipality by name. Here is the list of Court cases that come up under Thomas and Diana's name.
Tacoma Municipal
Kitsap District
Pierce District #2
Pierce Co. District
Bremerton Municipal
Ocean Shores
Mason District
I was more than patient with Tom and willing to accept my deposit back and the money he offered to repay me for the cost to replace an item he took minus the $500 I believed he was due for his work. I was willing to cut my losses when I received my refund just to be done with it and move forward but due to his unwillingness to keep his word and his unprincipled attitude toward the whole situation, (mind you, HE created the situation), he left me no choice except to pursue legal action and to tell others so that they may do due diligence before hiring this contractor. read more