He screwed up our new cabinets and ghosted us.
We hired him…read moreto remodel our kitchen and laundry room. New cabinets and counters, floor, painting, installation of an over-the-range microwave, and new/additional recessed lighting in the kitchen. Relocation of my water heater by his plumber, and remodel of my laundry room. Additionally, I paid him to bring in a flooring professional to put a new vinyl floor on my playroom and laundry room level, and another flooring professional to stain my living room and hallway floors, and to stain and poly my new oak staircases. He cut my beautiful brand new kitchen cabinets to squeeze in my over-the-range microwave. The microwave is 29 7/8" wide, and the space was 30" wide and because he didn't put the cabinets in right he decided to cut my cabinets instead of fixing the spacing. Now I have extra spacing on the sides of my over-the-range microwave that's not supposed to exist! While installing the microwave on the outside wall where it's located he butchered my exterior siding. Now, when we use our microwave the recessed lighting flickers when we use the microwave. On top of it, instead of putting the the cabinets trim on after all the painting is done, he did it backwards and hot paint on the oil rubbed finish of the molding.
In the laundry room he was supposed to put in solid ducting for my dryer inside the wall, but instead he sneakily used expandable/accordion hose without telling me. Lint builds up in expandable/accordion dryer hoses and are a common cause of house fires- which is exactly why I told him many times that I only want solid ducting, but he switched it on me!
He promised one brand of poly for the floors, and I caught him using inexpensive poly. My brand new staircases, balusters, and railings were smooth as glass, now they're gritty because he/they didn't clean properly after sanding. Moreover, he was supposed to put 3 coats on everything and he switched the billing to only 2 coats on the staircases. Why in the world would any reasonable person put 3 coats on their floors and only 2 coats on the stairs? He actually tried convincing me that's what I wanted. Nonsense! On top of it, we had to find housing for an extra night because it took him 4 days to do the floors, instead of 3.
Every time I paid him I had to hound him to update the balance due, but it took days to credit my payments. He always wanted cash so he could pay his guys (probably off the books and for tax avoidance). He said he needed me to give him more money, and that he would replace the cabinets, so when his plumber came I paid him for all the plumbing work plus another thousand dollars to motivate him. He said he needed the additional money to order the cabinets. He always cried he needed money, yet after I gave him extra money he split with his family on vacation, and he disappeared.
Stay away from this guy!
