ABBOTT'S HOME REPAIR

Mr. Abbott would call and state that he would be at work on site on a certain date and time and then not show nor a phone call to cancel. He pulled the floor up out of our bathroom and took off for a week to Kansas. Our house is above grade and it is winter time. We discussed with him about not showing up nor calling and said it would not happen again. It happened the very next week. We found more damage than what we thought and we discussed the price with him and had agreed to it. The next thing I knew was that he was demanding money up front stating he did not have any money in his checking account that his girlfriend must have taken it. He needed to buy supplies and we went to town and met him at the hardware store with the money. He would show up after 9:30 am and then would take off for lunch at 12:00. The very next Friday he was demanding another $1500 stating he had to make his truck payment. He gave this big story stating his girlfriend was out of work for 6 months. He was telling stories of how he could not make the mortgage payment and other bills, but was jetting off to Kansas all of the time. We asked for a deadline after three weeks and he gave a deadline and doubled the quote not at all to what we agreed. The day of the deadline he decided to slap the tile on the floors and grout, paint, try to finish the install in one day. He was in a hurry because he was again planning to jet off to Kansas to see his girlfriend. At 9pm that night we told him that he would have to come back and finish the job that we had to get our children to bed. He demanded more money and stated he would leave his tile saw as collateral. That he would come back and finish the work. He did not show up until the following Wednesday. He then tried to slap the trim and other finish work together. He up and left the house with out telling us. We called him and he said he would be back to finish the work and to clean up his mess. We still have not seen him or the receipt he promised. Oh, he took the collateral with him. The sink had the hot and the cold mixed up. Toilet leaking, paint not completed, calking not competed, wood trim was left broken and not finished, the shower fan was not competed, grout had bubble marks left in it that have to be repaired, grout dumped in my flower beds, what paint he did use he tracked across my brick patio, we had to do clean up after him everyday, he left a big pile of trash under the carport, the tile in the shower still had a heavy residue left on it. We had to buy the paint, all fixtures, tiles, grout, wax rings, sink adapters. He left a nail sticking out of the wall (tongue and grove paneling. He will not be allowed to do work for us again nor will we recommend him.