H & H Painting Services LLC

It went very poorly overall, and we ended up firing him and are in the process of having others finish the job. His manner was extremely discourteous; he made a huge mess and did not clean up. Materials were strewn across the floor, piled on our couch, and left blocking most of our entire front room in a small condo. He left trash on the ground, and we stepped on screws and other debris in our bare feet in the mornings more than once. None of the other contractors during this process have been as messy as him, and our electrician actually took the time to clean up the contractors mess! He was unreliable. He often did not show up to work when he said he would, and we would go days without knowing where he was or what was going on. One weekend we made arrangements to sleep in a hotel because he wanted to come early and work that Saturday, so we spent a lot of money so that we could get a good night's rest. The next day when we returned home, he was not there and had not been there. When asked about it, he simply responded "No, I'm not coming today" with no explanation or apology for our unnecessary expenditure of money. The drywall work he did for us is okay in terms of quality. It's not particularly impressive (some small areas are not quite level) but it's not disastrous. The flooring seems to be okay so far, although he did waste several tiles by laying half the floor to realize that he needed to rip those tiles up, put down a leveling compound, and do it again. He did not foot the bill for the replacement tiles. The IKEA cabinets were probably the worst part. He did quite a lot of damage to them during installation, installing several of them off-center from where they should have been. He did not follow instructions correctly, despite repeatedly asking us how things were supposed to work. We're still finding places where he didn't put screws in that need them, or where things have been installed incorrectly and need to be fixed. For example, he neglected to put all the legs on a corner cabinet that began to bow as the countertop installers did their job, requiring them to stop and fix the cabinet first. The last straw came when we asked him to come hook up our sink and faucet. He came and left with some excuse about needing the countertop installers to come back and widen the faucet hole, which would have been a huge inconvenience if that was actually required. In the meantime, he left a hose dripping under the sink, soaking into the wood and ruining our brand new sink cabinet. At that point we decided he would not be setting foot in our home again. (Also, we were able to install the faucet without widening the existing hole.) In the aftermath, we have also found damage in our hallway where he dented the wall and got some cement compound on the wall and door frame. He also broke off our security latch on the front door at some point. The whole process of working with him was a nightmare, going from bad to worse. He came recommended to us for his skill with drywall work, but completely failed to deliver on so many other aspects and was unpleasant to work with even for the things he was supposed to be good at. We're very distrustful of our whole kitchen at this point, waiting for the cabinets to come crashing off the walls because of his shoddy work.