First of all, this is not a licensed general contractor. This company has been in business 2 years…read moreand is not accredited by the BBB, Better Business Bureau. I'm starting with this because anything relating to doing Plumbing or Electrical work, or installing egress windows in a basement requires permits. Why....because there are a lot of unlicensed contractors in Wisconsin that do bad work and by pulling a permit, the city inspector has to come out to check the work to make sure the contractor charging you money knows what he is doing.
Next, this guy, quoted me $11000 for a job and wanted $8000 up front.....huge red flag. Why you ask, because and I quote Stefan, I'm a small company, I cant compete with multi million dollar companies. Right away this made me think, this guy is going to take my money and run, 2, this guy may do work, but has no money to pay his guys, so the project will be in limbo forever, and lastly, because he has no money, he needs to have multiple projects going at the same time to have any money.
Stefan, was at my condo when I told him over the phone I was not going to give him $8000 up front. I told him I will give him $2000 up front, and make progress payments based on his work, he argued with me for 10 minutes, whining about how hes a little company and has only been in business 2 years. He was doing demo on my bathroom, he removed the shower, toilet and vanity, but only disposed of the shower, he basically left after I gave him the $2000.
Because he was supposed to do plumbing work on my condo, the hoa requires a weeks heads up to shut down the plumbing stack in my building. He did the week notice, but never showed up. My wife called an texted and he gave us numerous excuses ranging from he was sick, to my wife didnt pick out materials.....which he was supposed to meet her for, and never showed. The last excuse that he didn't think the H.O.A needed notice because he can shut off the water inside the unit. This is when it dawned on me he's not licensed.
There is no water shut off in my unit, you have to shut off the water supply to the unit to change the plumbing. I called an emergency plumber that I was referred to that same day, the first thing he said was I need to pull permits for this....awesome, lets do it.
Stefan never mentioned permits.....because you reading this are as licensed as Stefan is. I checked the Wisconsin License Bureau, there is no contractors license under AAA General Contracting.
As I write this, he has ignored my wifes wishes to get the fob to our building, keys to our condo and the balance of the deposit back. Stay away from this guy, he will be out of business and will not be able to warranty his bad work in years to come.
For basements I would recommend Total Basement Finishing's, for plumbing Hagen Plumbing and for General Construction, Classic Carpentry.