Bird Construction

At the time I hired him, I was desperate because I had the concrete floors taken out of my cabin (that I purchased to restore). During the removal, the concrete was underneath the logs supporting it, so the cabin was leaning. I was worried that the cabin wasn?t going to hold up. He provided me with estimates, which were $16,673, but then when he saw the urgency of the situation, the estimate rose to $20,673. He told me the extra was for unforeseen work, but he didn?t include that in the contract. He ended up doing the foundation, and now it?s uneven. He ended up jacking the cabin up, but not enough. He told me that that?s as far as he could jack it up, but it wasn?t enough to do the job correctly. It should've been jacked up a foot, but he only jacked it up 2.5 inches. Due to the cabin not being even, I?ve lost almost 3 inches in a few of my doorways. When I brought this to his attention, he said that he put in the foundation the way the cabin was sitting. He told me I didn?t tell him I wanted the foundation to be level, but I thought I wouldn?t have to tell him something like that. Also, in replace of the seal logs, I wanted antique logs, and he ended up using barn beams, but I was charged for the more expensive antique logs. He told me there wasn?t enough room for the thicker, antique logs, but there was. I didn?t have him do any more work on the cabin, even though originally, we had discussed finishing the entire project. He also left his construction debris. He threw away some of my wood paneling that I wanted to save, in the dumpster. I think it was because I hired a new contractor and that new contractor was working while this contractor was finishing up. Also, he told me that he had to have a payment on a Friday, and if not, the project would be set back and he wouldn?t be able to come in on Monday. I ended up having to take time off work, and in the end, he didn?t even show up on Monday, so the project was delayed anyways. This entire job took 3 months, even though the contract stated it should?ve taken about 45 days, weather-permitting. He had started other jobs, so that?s why it ended up taking so long. I now have uneven foundation, which is causing many other problems. Throughout the project, there were some decisions that he made on his own without consulting me. After some additional items that I had asked to be done, the final price that I had paid him was $740 more for extras than what was stated in the contract, but he didn?t deduct the work that he eliminated. He has returned phone calls before, but not very often. Most of the time I can't get through because his voicemail is almost always full.