Walter Price Design & Build

We hired Walter Price to do a total kitchen remodel in August 2018 due to mold. From the start, we experienced red flags, but decided to push through in order to complete the project in a timely manner. In short, we ended up parting ways with Walter before the completion of the project due to extremely poor workmanship, his use of cheap materials, unprofessionalism and dishonesty. Walter tried to talk us out of pulling permits for the project, even though the law required that we pull one. He was not forthcoming about materials being used, even when we were specifically asking about them. Walter also made several significant changes and decisions without consulting us, including pulling the ceiling down (which was not part of the original plan), the direction of hardwood floors and using materials to cover up mistakes and then trying to charge us for additional materials. Some of those mistakes included that he did not level the floors nor the ceiling during the remodel. When we asked him why they were not leveled, he said because it wasn’t outlined in the contract. Even small things like leveling of knobs or poor paint coverage were met with arguments, lack of accountability or a promise to fix it later. The hardwood floors were not installed professionally and the finish included dirt, hair and pooling of polyurethane. The final straw was when we caught his subcontractor attempting to place loose cellulose insulation from the demo of our kitchen back into our attic. Clearly, during demo, the insulation would have come in contact with the existing mold, dust and other debris. Given our bad experience, we would not recommend Walter Price.