DiPrete Painting

Had Dan come in and do painting himself inside my house for 12 hours in a small bathroom and very small bedroom. He had given me a price for the whole job, but did not have the time or resouces so I had just him come in to help 3 painters I had hired myself. I paid the rate Dan asked for - $35 per hour. I had three other workers on site I had recruited and hired to do painting and other jobs for my major renovations - all hourly. It turns out Dan had a lengthy conversation with one of my painters and offered her a job right away - this was Friday and he offered to have her start on Monday - This was while I was paying him to paint by the hour - it seems very unprofessional. The painter working for me (the one Dan tried to hire) had her car break down a few days earlier and I drove 30 miles both ways to pick her up and bring her home so she would not miss work/income. In the end of 12 hours, his painting was not satisfactory, and importantly, he broke a window curtain holder which is no longer made and did not tell me. A bigger problem is that only taped half of the area where there were historic black stained wood beams that I told him had a very expensive custom stain and would be very hard to match stain if paint ended up on them - this is in a very small room - well, we found out Saturday he had NOT done a good job on keeping paint off the black beams since he did not tape half of them - plus he did not have his own tape - I provided it and told him to keep it. Seems like a nice guy, but said he had problems with his two workers who were undependable It sounded like he was in a bad spot with his two other workers, but did he need to take my painter that I worked so hard to find on craigslist - that is so wrong on so many ways, while he knew I was under a very tight time frame. To make it all a bit sad, the painters who he tried to steal from me, well her car broke down, again, so she could not work Monday. Unfortunately, Dan fell off a ladder the next day and busted up this foot. I feel bad for both of them, and wish them both good fortune. She is a decent painter, but will not move or use ladders only step ladders. I never write negative review but felt this needed to be told.

DO NOT hire he does crappy work and works with thieves and drug addicts run names thru Police Dept will be attaching photos of crap work and people soon!

He left spotty streaky painting, stole money, works with drug addicts and thieves, is a liar, broke MANY items and left job undone! Dont hire or you will wind up at the Police and Court like hes said hes been before, i can now see WHY! DONT HIRE RUN!