Artscape Renovations Landscaping

After two weeks of totally necessary rain delays, he told us he would be starting work "tomorrow" for over one month.  We should have stopped at this point, but we paid a significant downpayment on the project since it was a large job.  He told us the work would take about a week, but when he finally started he was working for over 3 weeks, and the work crews only came for partial days, never more than 4 hours of work were completed in any single day when they came at all.  The subcontractors he brought in refused to complete the scope of work he had included in our contract.  We finally cut off work when we observed that he and his workers were using unsafe practices on our property.  They were removing a dead tree - one man cut a notch in the base of the tree while another man was on an extension ladder leaning on the tree with a chain saw cutting branches off the top.  At this point we told him we didn't want the deck subcontractor to come (after waiting several weeks for him to show up).  He insisted he was already on his way.  I had to leave the house for an appointment and I told Tom, don't touch that deck until I return.  So when I got home he had cut off several boards from the deck.  Then the deck subcontractor refused to do the work as described in the contract.  So we finally told Tom and the deck sub to put the deck back together.  We settled the bill.  I will never ask Tom to come back.  We did not get all the work completed that was in our contract, and we definitely overpaid for what we got but at that point I just wanted him gone.