July 25th - Billy Skinner Jr. from Skinner Heating and Cooling came to my house to install a cooling system. He brought 1 employee with him who is his relative Derrike Skinner. I have a Beagle that's 1 year old and I couldn't tie him to his lead outside because he would be in Derrike's way. I I brought the dog in the house and put him in his crate and he began barking and Mr. Skinner was swearing about making the dog be quiet. He told me to go take a walk or go somewhere else with the dog. I was NOT going to leave Mr. Skinner and his cousin in my house alone! Mr. Skinner has a public criminal record and I had never met Derrike. Mr. Skinner left for 10 minutes. When he came back he knew I was disturbed. He had CALLED MY MOTHER to complain about my dog! He knew that I was aware of him calling her so he tried to make light of it and said: "I called your Mama". I said nothing. Within the first 10 minutes Derrike was in the attic he almost fell through the ceiling in my living room leaving a HUGE 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 foot hole. The insulation came down like a smoke bomb covering my ENTIRE living room. It was that old type of insulation that is finely shredded paper mixed with a horrible "dust powder" that sticks to everything. He filled 1 box with the debris, but there was still insulation stuck ALL OVER! The walls, floor, couch, bird cage, TV and computer. Mr. Skinner's garage that he works out of is down the road. He left and came back with a wet-vac and began sucking up some of the debris. He called a friend of his who does drywall to come over to cover the hole. Instead of cleaning up he sat on my couch and watched his friend patch the wall. He started complaining about his sciatica and told me that he eats "marijuana balls" for pain but he didn't have any left. While his friend was trying to cover the hole Mr. Skinner insulted me by saying that once the hole was fixed it would be the nicest part of my house. I asked Mr. Skinner who was going to paint it afterwards, and being a smart mouth he said: "Your Mom". I had asked him a few other questions and he kept replying with: "Your Mom". Derrike did all the other work and Mr. Skinner left again for over an hour. I cleaned the ENTIRE mess for 2 hours by myself! I asked Derrike where Mr. Skinner was and Derrike he didn't know. He told me Mr. Skinner was crabby because he was out of "marijuana balls" and he hates dogs. I asked if Mr. Skinner still drinks everyday in excess and he told me that Mr. Skinner now drinks during the day, then passes out early evening, then wakes up and drinks more until he passes out. The only work I saw Mr. Skinner do was scoop up ONE box of the debris and drill a BIG hole in my ceiling to run the electrical cord. Before Mr. Skinner did it he told me that the cord would be tucked into the wall and promised it would NOT be visible. When he drilled the hole the ceiling cracked 2 feet in length and he did NOT tuck the cord behind the wall. The cord runs 4 feet down my wall into my fuse box. When I told him he had to cover the exposed cord he told me that my Dad could do it! Last night, August 8th around 12:30 a.m. we had a storm and the rain started pouring through the HOLE down into my fuse box. I stood on a chair holding towels to make sure it wouldn't go into the fuse box. Then the power went out our neighborhood. I called Mr. Skinner and left a voicemail that this needs to be taken care of 1st thing in the morning. I never got a call in the morning so late morning I called again and got his voicemail. I called again early afternoon and still got his voicemail. Then I called Derrike around 2:30 p.m. and he didn't answer so I left him a voicemail, and I sent him a "stern" text message stating that Mr. Skinner needs to take care of this ASAP! Finally, at 3:36 p.m. Mr. Skinner called me and started yelling at me using the "F" bomb and told me that someone came on my roof in the morning and fixed the problem. I DO NOT understand why Mr. Skinner DID NOT call to tell me that and no one came to my door! I tried to tell him about my concerns, and he just kept talking over me so I finally told him I was going to post my reviews and experience on EVERY website I could find. He told me to "F"- off and never call him or Derrike and hung up on me. Mr. Skinner left the ceiling without painting, the big drill hole and the visually exposed cord. He was paid what he asked for and whined about how he didn't make any money off of this job. When I told Mr. Skinner I spent 2 hours cleaning up the mess he replied by saying: "Yeah with MY wet-vac". That goes to show you his mentality. Mr. Skinner is no stranger to the law and it is all Public Record. He's had at least 3 DUI's, Domestic Battery & Disorderly Conduct. He may have bargain-basement prices but this situation proves that you get what you pay for. If you want a pot-head, alcoholic criminal to do work for you...then Billy Skinner Jr. is the person to call! READ FULL STORY AT "RIPOFF REPORT" WEBSITE! read more