You are making a huge mistake if you hire David Salerno/Hampton Deck for any project. Not only did he prove himself to be completely dishonest and left our project with 75% of his money and only 35% of the work having been done, but we later found out that he did the exact same thing to at least three other people in the area within the past six months. He seems to have made a career out of taking advantage of people, taking their money and not fulfilling his job. The 35% of the project that he did do included sub par materials, clearly the cheapest that were available, multiple safety hazards and many items that were not done up to code. As a result, we were forced to abandon key elements of our design and compromise a project we had put so much money and effort into. To start at the beginning, we signed a contract with him this past January and were told that the job would be done by March 1. When June rolled around and we still had a mud pit in our backyard it became quite obvious he had no intention of living up to any of his promises. All of his excuses about not being able to do the work from lack of materials, to lack of permits, to lack of workmen have all proved to be totally false. He lied to us continually and it became abundantly clear that he never had any intention of finishing our project. Clearly, he took our money, used it for his own purposes and by the time certain parts of the job needed to be done, he didn't have the resources to buy the materials or pay for the man power. It will end up costing us at least $20,000 over budget to get the job finished. It's now September and it's still not done. Multiple craftsmen have come to our property to finish the job and commented that when they were hired by him, he never paid them and lied to them as well. I could not be stronger in my warning to any potential home owners out there in the area who are looking for contractors to do projects. You are making a HUGE mistake if you choose to hire this person. Your job will be subpar at best, you will lose money and likelihood that the job will ever be done is scarce. The only positive things that I can say about him is that he has nice design ideas and he's a great salesman. Don't make the same mistake that my family did! read more
