Do yourself a favor and put this guy's name into Facebook. You'll come across his mugshot, and several complaints about his lack of skill. His name is Jon Balamotis, and he's an absolute hack, who doesn't even understand basic framing. The building inspector in Salem NH (Scott Sullivan) had to shut this hack's job down twice with a stop work order, and couldn't believe how awful his work was. He actually had split LVL's not mounted on the support post. You can see video proof of this on Facebook if you look up his name. We had to pay someone else to do all the work over again. You'll find more skilled workers hanging around the local Home Depot parking lot. If you care about your home, do not allow this guy to do any work on your property. It's criminal what this hack did to my property. Fortunately, the contractor that stepped in to redo all the work was exceptional, professional, and very skilled. He was stunned by how awful Jon's work was. When I posted videos of his hack job in various contractor groups, nobody could believe that this guy was out there charging people money. If this guy has done any work on your property, I would have that work inspected by a professional, because the work he did at my house wasn't only not to any building code, but it also wasn't remotely safe! I would give him minus 100 starts if Google allowed for that! DO NOT HIRE! read more