After Michael did such a good job on my last project, I hired him again to do a small bypass shower door replacement project. Let's just say this wasn't his best work. The project got delayed a week because he miscut the frame pieces and had to order a replacement frame. He misread the instructions. When attaching the top frame to the side frames, he severely gouged and scratched the finish, and stripped the edges of the screw holding the top to the side. Also, the cut part of the top frame was rough. Michael admitted he didn't have the proper saw blade to cut this material. Once the 2nd frame came in and he brought the correct tools to do the install, upon my first use, water puddled outside the shower on my bathroom floor. He neglected to caulk both the inside and outside of the bottom frame, as directed in the assembly instructions. And one shower door was hung too low and dragged on the bottom frame. I'm not sure how this was missed during assembly as it was very obvious one door moved effortlessly while the other did not. Proper caulking and adjusting the door hanger solved the problems.
While Michael apologized and made everything right in the end and did give me a discount off the invoice for the delay and frustration, all the issues could have been avoided if only he did not try to rush the project and had the correct tools for the job from the get go. Overall, I would score this a D- due to all the errors.
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Michael is a good guy and wants to do a good job. I may use him again, should I have another home improvement project. However, I will make clear anything requiring assembly and having instructions to do so needs to be carefully read, proper tools on hand from the start and the project not rushed. read more