We started our 55 K dream project with PGC renovations owned by Rodney Jenkins who promised to complete the project in 4 weeks. The project turned out to be a complete nightmare and left a scar in our heart due to his horrible and incomplete work and rude and obnoxious attitude.
After tons of promises, the project kicked off very well until we paid out 75% of the money. Then we noticed his work started slowing down. He would come late and leave early as 1 pm many times, but he said he will work from 8 to 5. We didn't have any problem with him leaving early or coming late. We were afraid that he might take
way more than 4 weeks to finish, judging by his tardiness which as we predicted carried out till the 7th week and was left unfinished.
When we saw him laying the tiles without spacers. We asked him doesn't one have to use spacers he answered, "I don't use spacers".
Since, he is a constructor we assumed he knows what he was doing. But we started noticing the uneven spaces around the tiles and even our friends who visited started saying that the tiles looked messy. We were disappointed since we spent weeks and lots of money on special order tiles and was super excited about getting our first home renovated.
Then, he nearly gave us a heart attack when he said he will come after two weeks to finish rest of the project, which till then out entire family has to continue to stay in the basement. We literally had to beg him to stay and continue to work on the project without leaving midst of it which happens to be pointless.
At the end of 7 Weeks over 40% work left, and Rod demand us to pay the final bill plus additional plumbing charges which was never brought to our attention before. When we asked him to show us the Plumbing bill, we never got a bill.
Also later on when we called the plumber he said that there was no such a bill. Now our house is a mess due to a greedy contractor!!! who left without completing his job. Even when our realtor visited out house he asked if the guy who laid the tiles was doing it for the first time.
Our main objective to add an extra heat/ac vent to the sun room and we have clearly stated in our Project in trusted pro website. When plumber came to do the plumbing Rod took off and plumber removed the existing Vent to install pipes. When I questioned him that he promised us to run more vent's but now our existing vent has been removed. The answer was "Keep the doors open you will be fine"
Rod was not happy that we applied for permit which the inspector asked to fix his lousy job several time like fixing the stair, insulation, etc.
The way laid tiles on both washroom, sun room and hallway are very uneven and ugly.
Work Left.
1. Sun room sky light not closed and no wooden ceiling and pot lights as in the agreement.
2. Stairs to the sun room not finished because failed in the inspection. (Narrow runners / uneven space between runners, more then 4" space between stair guards)
3. No doors for hallway closet and bedroom (brought wrong special order door sizes)
4. No Shower door for stand out shower
5. Doors are not painted and no door hardware (knobs, door stops)
6. No baseboard for half of the house
7. Paining not done on many walls
8. Washroom vanities not hooked properly
9. New additional room's right side door trim has only 1/4 inch who build wrong size wall read more