Buyer Beware! We trusted Bill Rainford, his brother and the rest of his team with our gut renovation. We were extremely disappointed with the workmanship and the professionalism of most of his team.
Ultimately, Bill Rainford abandoned the job and we have been forced to hire a new plumber and a new electrician to fix the work that he REFUSED to fix after multiple requests. We paid him about 90% of the already very expensive contract when maybe 70% of the work was complete. Needless to say we are in the hole as far as money goes. We have had to hire new people and reopen the walls because we cannot get DoB sign off on our job since Bill has quit on us. This is an extreme cost given the project was already more than $300k.
As soon as we moved in he stopped sending a team even though we had rooms not painted, one bathroom not finished, no counter, etc. Please let this sink in. HE STOPPED SENDING MEN TO THE JOB AND IT WAS BARELY HABITABLE. We had to fight tooth and nail to get adequate staffing for over 6 months. We are a young family and Bill, at no time in the entire process, apologized for any of the mistakes that he did agree to fix, and seemed to be completely callous and indifferent to the fact that this is our home and he was creating a space for us to live. For him, it was just a job, and ultimately was just an annoyance which is why he abandoned the job (and, by the way, did not give us notice, just stopped coming). By the way, he abandoned the job about 8 months after he was supposed to have 100% completed the work.
We have reported this company to the BBB and we have hired lawyers and are currently pursuing our legal options.
I would be happy to provide photos and records of email conversations upon request.
You will see, there are crooked plugs. Cracks in half of the crown molding. The plumbing sounds like a machine gun is going off in one of the bathrooms. There are cracks in the cabinets. One of the light fixtures in the living room is not connected to a light switch that he installs. The light fixture in the bathroom flickers such that we cannot use it. He did not install trim around the two front doors and now we need to find a carpenter. All of the grout in the master bathroom has come off so that it looks like it has been in for years and years. It hasn't even been 3 months. The list goes on. Some of the work is beautiful. The rest is DISGUSTING. I don't know how a man can sleep at night having left us living in a home like this.
Also, just so you know what kind of person he is, once his brother wore a confederate flag tshirt to our home even though I am black (my husband is white). Bill didn't say sorry when we called him out on it. He said "Oh, we don't even think about things like that!" He and his brother yelled at my mother out of frustration. His brother had the decency to apologize. Bill just walked in the house and didn't speak to my mother again. This is not a professional man. Bill yelled at me repeatedly when I would express frustration and I had to repeatedly tell him not to yell at me.
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