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    Love’s Handyman

    4.1 (13 reviews)
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    Again on the other cabinet

    We hired Abel to mount two cabinets, diagnose our A/C, replace overhead lighting and our climbing rope, then create an earthquake-proof frame for a mosaic tile to be mounted on the wall. In our initial meeting, he said he could begin the tasks and finish before our gym opened up again on July 6th. It is now July 13th and he has only 'completed' half the tasks, which I'll describe the quality of and include pictures below. Cabinets: both cabinets ended up with drywall damage next to them, and one of them was installed crooked. A/C diagnosis: he reset the maintenance reminder, stating that it should work now, and if it comes back then we know that it's the filter. It didn't come back, and still doesn't work- so we are gained no information since we started. Mosaic tile frame/mount: This is a heavy tile to be mounted on the wall, and Abel acknowledged the importance of securing it well enough to be earthquake proof. Abel dropped off the tile with the frame attached stating that it 'really in there'. We debated a bit over the quality of his work; we'd already paid for more than the work he'd completed in the form of progress payments, and he wanted us to pay more for his tile framing. We think we shouldn't have to pay the balance and on the contrary, should receive a partial refund. He said this was out of the question and stormed out, then later called to apologize. Afterwards, I picked up the tile frame and noticed crooked edges, sharp cuts, and uneven measurements. I turned the tile at an angle and the entire thing slipped out! If we went through with the install, it could have fallen 10 feet and killed someone; it's a 15-20lb tile. We've paid him ~$600 for crooked cabinets and drywall damage, a waste of an A/C inspection, and an unusable, killer tile frame. We think a refund is in order but he has already denied and we don't wish to waste any more time debating.

    First, the upside: Abel was immediately responsive during our initial setup conversation. His quote was a bit on the high side, but we agreed for him to come over. The first job was to fix a couple of cabinet drawers. He fixed one of them fine, but took the other drawer home because it needed additional work. He brought it back the next day, but it still did not fit snugly. I overlooked it because at least it was no longer falling on us, but the drawer is still about a quarter inch misaligned. Overall, the price for fixing two drawers felt high for the result. Next, we had a toilet floor that was clearly swollen. Abel said he could fix it in a day or a day and a half. Once he took the floor apart, the foundation underneath had water on it. The job then became replacing planks in the foundation, which required more money. I agreed and he proceeded. This is where the downsides began. Abel leaves your house in a mess. After he left the first day, I had to clean up the foundation area, which still had swollen wood pieces packed around it. I spent a couple of hours cleaning and drying the rest of the foundation with a dryer so it would be ready for him the next morning. Drying the foundation was in my interest, but it should also be in any good contractor's interest. The next morning, Abel arrived late. He was happy to see that I had cleaned the workspace and even joked that I should help him on his next job. He then spent the entire day fixing the floor foundation. By the end of day two, the foundation slabs were fixed, but the toilet was still out and the hardwood floor pieces were all over the house. After he left, I had to clean up again. On the third day, Abel arrived in the afternoon instead of the morning for personal reasons. I had been willing to overlook the earlier issues, but this is where the job really went wrong. He struggled badly with reinstalling the hardwood panels, which were brand new spare panels from the same flooring used in much of our house. He kept saying they were low quality and would not snap together properly. I could not understand how the same panels had worked across most of our house, yet were supposedly impossible to use in a small powder room. He superglued them and the result was a mess. To make matters worse, I was going out of town the next day and the job was still not finished, largely because of the delays. Abel repeatedly said that if we asked him to use the existing panels, he could not guarantee they would stick. The alternative was to buy different-looking panels from Home Depot, which would have made the powder room look completely mismatched. I even had to demonstrate to him how the panels snapped together, and I said I could live with a few imperfections. By day four, the job was technically finished, but it looked terrible. The panels were out of place, the side pieces/crowns were left hanging out, there were gaps, and the finish looked sloppy. To his credit, he had warned that using these panels would be a problem, but many of the issues were clearly not the panel's fault. Cutting a panel half an inch too short, not hammering pieces in properly, leaving the area messy, and not resealing the toilet boundary with fresh caulk are craft issues. I messaged him respectfully and asked him to come back to fix the workmanship issues. We could live with some panel imperfections, but not with everything else being left that way. He said he would do it if he came back to paint our cabinets, which we did not have time for. After that, he kept saying he would come at the end of the week, the next week, Thursday, Friday, tomorrow -- but he never came back. He also continued blaming the panels and saying the problems happened because his professional opinion was not followed. Finally, I called an actual hardwood floor professional. He came in, looked at the floor, and immediately said the panels had been installed incorrectly. They needed to be staggered, but Abel had put them in parallel. I was embarrassed because I had not noticed it either, but clearly Abel did not know what he was doing with this type of flooring. The new professional fixed everything in about two hours. He removed the toilet, put in a new seal, resealed everything, cleaned up the entire place, and used the exact same panels Abel had blamed. He even salvaged some of the panels from the ruined floor. The powder room now looks clean, shiny, and beautiful. If you are reading this to the end: the powder room was saved by a professional who knew what he was doing -- not by Love's Handyman.

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    Abel was on-time, knowledgeable, & friendly. Highly recommended for any home projects.

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    though i dont know the quality of the actual work, Able was very professional and if we had gone forward with our project he was our man!

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    Abel was very nice and helpful. Ended up helping with more services other than the one I had booked. I just wish it were more affordable. B

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    Constant communication, friendly, on. Time. Great work.happy wife happy life.quality is very good.

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