On April 20th I had a terrible experience with this person. I selected HoneyDude from high Yelp ratings and am sorry. After two phone conversations to discuss paint and carpentry work, he visited to give the free estimate. We agreed an an hourly wage for a kitchen flatware drawer repair job that would take about two hours. Meanwhile, I had found another painter beforehand (thank God--I cannot imagine what the paint job would have looked like). This happened on my day off so I could get lots done since I was putting my house on the market--his job was key to finishing up. First off, he arrived 90 minutes behind the appointed 10:00am time, and then still had to run out for some material barely an hour later. He took over my driveway with 2-3 workbenches; while he was doing that I had errands to run and left. About 30 minutes into my errands he called because there was no power (GFI tripped). I raced home to set him up with a cord from my garage. I went back on errands. When I came back about 2pm he was complaining about having trouble with the particle board on the drawer. He decided to create a make-shift support system. In the picture, his box is on the left. Since the glue would have to set, he offered to repair a crack I had in my aggregate stone walkway. I thought he knew what he was doing when we talked about a process he'd said we both saw on YouTube--he knew the language and everything. Since he was already present and (I thought) he knew what to do, I agreed and left to finish a few more errands. When I returned: OMG. He had spilled concrete OUT of the crack he was supposed to trowel; his fix looked worse than the problem. I told him it looked awful, and he suggested a fix; I told him to clean it up. The concrete was set. OMG. (I am skipping a LOT), Sooooo, he struggled with the kitchen cabinet tracks and added more wood for supports (?). Around 6pm I asked when he would get done and he continued to verbalize his frustration; meanwhile, not only is my cabinet dismantled but he has no clue as to how to make it work. I just told him I have to have my house back--he said he wanted to try one more thing. About 7:00 he apologized and said forget his fee (duh); I offered to pay him for the hour he put into destroying my walkway just to get him out of my house. As he was packing to leave, my painter arrived for an estimate and asked what happened to my drawer. Seeing my frustration, he offered to fix it, which is the box on the right. On the next day, the painter REBUILT and finished the kitchen drawer in two hours! HoneyDude may be doing this as a hobby, because my experience is that he was figuring it out as he went--he sounded knowledgeable but buyer beware. I cannot recommend this person to anyone! Right now I'm hoping my painter can work with mortar and can fix the mess HoneyDude created. read more