Chris' Painting and Home Repair

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Chris? Painting & Home Repair is a highly unethical small business and Chris the owner should be ashamed of himself. He and his employees / day worker contractors damaged my property and abandoned the job after I had stupidly trusted him and paid him in full.  Chris will give a rebuttal, saying I am 'picky', while he was paid room-by-room in full via cash and via PayPal credit card, and there are rooms and areas that his compnay never even touched.  They were paid in full and never returned.  Chris saw our job as a quick way to make some money, and promised me that he would be onsite.  He never lifted a paint brush.  Instead, he subcontracted the job to low-quality workers who slopped paint on wood that had never been painted before, and also broke brand new bathroom lighting, and splattered paint all over our brand new $20,000 hardwood floors throughout the house.  His workers could not be bothered to put a tarp down.  They were rushing and had total disregard for my home. Also, Chris constantly mislead us, saying that he (his employee and sub-contractors) would come back, and they never did. This was over the Winter Holidays, and they would not come back to paint for days and weeks at a time.  They left 10 cans of paint in my living room, ladders, lights.  In the middle of the floor.  We could not put up a tree for Christmas, waiting for them to return to our home and finish the job.  They were hired on November 19th, 2013 and they painted about 4 days total, returning for the last time December 10th 2013.  We emailed, called and texted Chris constantly to return to finish the job, and to do a better quality.  The interior painting was not finished and I have since had to hire another company to come in and basically start over, and sand down most of their shoddy, lumpy and bumpy paint job. Chris' cheap crew left spackle patches on windows in the Kitchen, Family, Dining and Office areas. They left cracks in doors and they did not caulk before painting in the Kitchen. They left many areas unfinished.  They were paid to sand wooden stairs leading to the 2nd floor of the house, and they never sanded before painting.  His key employee scratched  razor blade scratches on all windows of $600 brand new French Doors of the Office - they are now unrepairable. They never sanded and never took any care in the work, as they were paid in full to do. There are missed areas on trim, unpainted, in every room mentioned above . There are large, obvious drips and sagging paint on trim in foyer and Office. My advice is to not give this company your hard-earned money.  I intend to pursue a full refund, plus damages, via every legal means possible.

Came on time, completed job in one day and came in under estimate.

It was an excellent experience.  He was knowledgeable and able to take care of what needed to be done.  The price was very competitive and well worth it.  He was certainly looking out for us and made sure we were getting the best deal possible.  It was a very positive experience.  We are still waiting for him to come and finish a couple of small things for us but that is the nature of this business.

He subcontracts the work, so be prepared to have work done on their schedule. The/crew do not show up when suppose to. Work began weeks late. Unfinished and took months to track him down to complete job. He never completed second contract we had with him. After we had this experience, we heard many other 'horror stories'. He came highly recommended, but later they recanted. Never again.