B & H DESIGN & BUILD

I had to be after him the whole time. He wanted to use the wrong kind of drywall (basements need mold resistant drywall, especially my basement), he didn't angle the corners of the baseboard, the screen door didn't close after he put it in, the wall he hung wasn't flat(!) in over a dozen places, he "forgot" to put the spring mechanism on the screen door (I found it stuffed in a bag of leaves), and so on. I even had to explain to him how to put up the crown molding. He had EXCUSES for everything and acted like I was being unreasonable. What did he think? That crown molding comes in a form that can't go around corners? That I just wanted the screen door up and didn't really need it to close? I'd like to meet the others he's worked for who didn't care about such things. There were language issues, too, but overall he was just sloppy. I mean, he WROTE DOWN that he wanted me to buy 1 1/2' drywall nails, so I bought 1 1/2" drywall nails. Turns out he meant 1 5/8" drywall screws. Nails vs. screws. A contractor should know the difference and not get upset when I can't read his mind that he didn't mean nails, he meant screws. Another big problem was that he left all his trash behind, including all the extra tile adhesive (kind of like cement) that he had mixed. Don't contractors normally clean up after themselves? I could go on and on, but really, hire him only if you already know construction, have a long time to wait around (he takes forever to get back to you, I was sitting around for a month), and have a lot of patience. By the way, he cashed my check already and hasn't finished the job. Big mistake. I probably won't see him again. Don't do that.