Beware, this guy is unreliable not communicative does not show for scheduled work, is not completing the job in reasonable time as quoted. I strongly recommend in your decision making process of using this guy read all the 1 star reviews and go to the BBB site where there are a dozen or so complaints filed in the past couple years. Mostly for taking deposits and then not performing the work and not returning the monies. One even indicate they won a court order and put a lien on his business. These are not a 1 off but a pattern. I failed to review them first. If I had seen them I would not have used him.
I am currently dealing with this guy on a 1750 sq ft fence to existing fence. This was to be 5" post with 1 board and wire and some 3 board. I said was supposed to be. He actually could not get the 5" round he quoted and wanted to charge me more for 6" true round after he started the work 6 weeks after contract signed.
This fence was to be done in Mid to late March. It is now the end of the first week in May and very little is complete. 2/3rds the holes drilled and 1/4 of the posts set. He shows for 30 minutes and leaves. He has been here for very short parts of 4 days since April 1. which was over 2 weeks late for his first date to start. He has been ignoring and not picking up most calls to find out if he was coming. He has not been responding to numerous texts, emails and voice mails.
He said (via test) my job is important to him. It should be he has $6600 of my money for almost 10 weeks that I am going to want back if he does not finish his contract soon. I will owe him another $6700 if he would ever show to compete his contract.
He has a very poor way of performing important work. He committed to March time period and missed that. He commit to knocking it out in 1 week in early April. He missed that. 2 weeks ago he commit to being here May 3 and knocking it out May 7. He blew off Monday May 3, showed up for about 1 hour May 4 and blew it off on May 5.
I am getting every excuse in the book from him on why he not working. I have heard, too much work for him booked, he is sick, his workers are sick, he had to finish a job, he got called back to another job on an emergency, they had change requests that delayed things, they don't have the materials and I can't find them. I am having a hard time getting workers.
Did I mention his workers also broke a 1 inch sprinkler line in multiple spots during drilling and failed to tell me. The lines are on an automatic timer that runs for 3 hours at a time at 3000 gallons per hour. Their comment was I forgot about it.
He is almost 2 months behind, he has not even drilled all the post holes. He has brought maybe half the posts required. Of those half of them thrown in holes leaning this way and that way for several weeks now.
If the fence is not done as he last committed, I will be consulting with people regarding my legal remedies like the one thread on the BBB site. I have told him this as of May 3rd in a text because he will not call and talk. Oh and guess what, he no show May 5th as well.
Update May 28 finally completed what should have been done March 22 or so. He did not have reliable workers. Had a rookie crew show up. Guy was not certain it was his full time job. Another guy flaked so called his uncle who got a few guys to help after 3PM. Workmanship needed corrections. To his credit, he made the corrections. Pathetic business, if you do not here from him, he aint doin the work.