Phil the Handyman out of Victoria BC has a lot of glowing testimonials on his website, but we were most unhappy with his work.
Phil was hired to do several jobs in our house, which he promised would be completed in a specific amount of time. The trouble was, Phil was hardly ever on site, and months of sporadic activity passed with the project less than 50% complete. We kept voicing concern to Phil about the lack of progress, and he kept saying he was waiting for materials from suppliers. However, when we phoned these suppliers, we were told that almost all the materials were either readily available in town or could be delivered in less than a week.
Had Phil's apparent lack of dedication to complete the project in a timely manner been the only negative element we might have gritted our teeth and continued with him, chalking it up to experience - but it was not! The work was hardly up to the level of professionalism that Phil advertises on his website. In fact we were mortified by much of the work done, which seemed to us to be shoddy, to say the least. Corners were definitely cut. And no one element of the project was completed before the next was started, which left our household in continual chaos.
Eventually we parted ways with Phil the Handyman, forfeiting some of our deposit. We had to have others complete the unfinished portions of the job and re-do several of the elements Phil the Handyman had done. Now, more than a a year later, more elements of the work that Phil the Handyman actually did are failing! For example, the expensive faucet he installed just "exploded"; floor tiling has started to lift; caulking around the tub is no longer bonding, and water is now infiltrating underneath and creating a mold situation.
There is an expression that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." In our opinion Phil the Handyman has but a little knowledge. read more
