While his work is good, his work ethic is not. We were quoted a price of $500.00 which we were told would be four hours of work. When he finished two and a half hours later my husband again asked him how much it would cost and he replied, "with tax, $500.00".
We gave him cash as we don't use checks and he remarked that with cash he didn't have to worry about paying taxes on it and asked if we needed a receipt. After he left, we thought about it and thought that we should not have paid as much since he didn't spend as much time as he had anticipated and he wasn't going to pay the sales tax. When we questioned him about it, we were told that if we wanted the tax money ($50.00) returned then we could not have a receipt. We wanted a receipt to show the break-down of his hourly rate and parts so we could determine how he still came up with $500.00. His wife insisted that the charge was correct since he charged $125.00 an hour. It seems that this contractor makes up his prices as he goes along and does not provide a breakdown of how his prices are calculated. I checked with another customer and found the same vague billing practice.
We have no complaints about his work (hopefully we won't have any future problems since we have no receipt or guarantee of his work) but his work ethic is questionable and we will not use him again or recommend him to anyone. read more