Tom is courteous and communicates very well to let me know what to expect. I am pretty clueless about construction but he does not talk down to me. He also does not smell like smoke, he does not curse or play obnoxious music on the job site, and I don't get the feeling that he is checking me out.
He provides his own bathroom facilities for larger jobs, and on the occasion that he has had to use my bathroom, he leaves the toilet seat down and does not make a mess in the sink. He takes his garbage with him instead of filling up the trash receptacles I pay for with the job waste.
These all seem like small things but they add up to the feeling that he respects my time, my home, and me as a person. As a woman I can say that this is very rarely the experience I have had with men working on my home. I usually really dread it when anyone has to come fix something the same way I dread having to deal with mechanics. Working with Tom has been quite a nice change. Oh, and his quality of work is excellent! read more