STOLE MY MONEY. If I could give 0 stars I would have. I hired Darren to help replace a deck for us. We've worked with twice him in the past and had no issues at all, but this time was different. Long story short, he has taken close to $10,000 of my money and did not complete the work intended nor deliver materials amounting to anywhere close to that amount. I have about a couple hundred bucks of materials, and quite a bit of property damage in my backyard including a partially demo'd deck, unfilled holes for footings (that were not dug deep enough) and a bunch of rusty nails laying around for my kids and animals to get hurt on. To date he has taken 3/4 of my budget and has ghosted me for the past 3 weeks. I have attempted to contact him numerous times via text, phone and email but he has chosen to ignore me. To add insult to injury, I have had other contractors in to get estimates to fix the damage and I've been told the work he did so far was not to code at all, it needs to be ripped up and replaced so nothing that has been done so far can be kept. Complete waste of time and money. Now I get the fun task of trying to sue him. Save yourself the headache and hire someone else, this guy is bad, bad news. read more