Deck Screening/staining and repainting project - Abandoned after 12 months…read more
He claimed to be a "master carpenter", and showed some pictures of completed jobs, but here, he did not deliver on-time, quality work, In fact, the job NEVER was completed, with him abandoning it after 12 months, leaving significantly more expense required, than the 20% remaining due on the project.
Due to his ill-thought, un-documented design, poor implementation, and haphazard execution, there was significantly more cost still remaining to finish the job, correct his mistakes, and clean up from the messes he made. He tried unsuccessfully to hand off the remaining work to anyone who would take it for the remaining 20% still due. But there was so much rework, no one wanted it because it was going to require much more cost/expense to finish.
During the course of 12 months, he had excuse after excuse for being late, missing work days/weeks at a time .. Claims that he sent texts to tell me of planned late arrival, but could never show the logs that they were, he had Covid 3 times in the course of 6 months, and was allergic to Covid boosters (taking days off in advance of, and after each booster), saying he expected to have these allergic reactions .
He had vehicle issues, interruptions from other jobs, emergency callouts by police in the middle of the night to replace broken store windows. By then it was winter 2021. When he finally resumed work in the spring 2022, he then said he fell off a roof, injuring his wrist, and would no longer be able to finish the job.
In actuality, he never worked more than 2 days in week, and almost never worked more than 2 consecutive weeks, ultimately leading to the results listed above. His excuses which, taken individually, might seem plausible on their own, told a different story when considered together. He was in way over his head, and didn't have the competency, labor, and organizational and carpentry skills to execute the committed tasks. Whereas he may be able to replace windows, serious carpentry was way outside his wheelhouse, because it required organization, skill and reliability to deliver a job on-time, skills he doesn't possess.