Allied Cleaning Services Inc

Description of Work
Remove water, dry area, remove base boards, doors, rid of mold, replace everything and clean up.

Description of Work
The heavy rains from hurricane Ike caused a small, 8" deep sewage backwash into our basement. Our 3rd such event in two years. We scheduled Metro to power wash and clean our basement. They also removed some large damaged furniture to the curb. After completion they left an industrial strength dehumidifier and returned the following day to tidy up and remove the machine.

Description of Work
Water from a plumbing problem in an upstairs bathroom leaking downstairs through the ceiling. We called to have them assess the problem and give us an estimate to fix it.

Description of Work
They removed some large pieces of furniture that were covered by sewage. They also pointed that out our first flood went higher than we thought.

Description of Work
No services were performed. The president of Metro, Dan Wondaal, refused to do any work unless we bought his company's whole scope of work. He refused to consider my requests for less work based on my research on the internet. He also accused me of planning to sue the company since I am an attorney. When I told him that I could not get a copy of the standard from the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning, and Restoration he referred to in his proposal without buying the whole set of standards he said, "well, we have to pay for them." Metro has the most scary indemnity language in their contract. It states as follows: "Client agrees to indemnity and hold Metro harmless from any claims, damages, causes of action made by any person allowed in or around the property during the performance of work by Metro, whether or not such harm may be as a result of sole, concurrent or comparative negligence of Metro." Thus, if one of their employees trips over a peice of Metro's equipment while in our house we are subject to being sued by Metro to reimburse Metro for its workers' compensation payments to the employee. If Metro drops a tool on my head while I, as the homeowner, am inspecting the work I can not make a claim against Metro because it will sue me for indemnification for payments it makes to me for my injuries. Metro's services cost $3,500.00. My proposal would have cost about $2,000. Two other mold removal companies said their charges were $1,500 and $1,800 respectively and neither of them used dry ice blasting but did use chemicals for encapsulating the mold. I also had spoken with an industrial hygenist about testing the mold. He said "don't bother" just get rid of the mold. Since I would have hired him to do testing, I thought this was an honest opinion. Metro's proposal charged $417.44 for testing. Per their statement regarding the work "If the homeowner requests copies of Metros (sic) test results, there will be an additional charge of $150.00 per test."The employee who came to our house to look at the mold in the attic was early for the appointment. When I spoke with Dan Newton on July 23rd he promised to call me back. I left a message for him late on Friday, July 25th but no one called on Monday July 28th. Finally, I called the company on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 and had the conversation with Mr. Wondaal which is set forth in this report.