Two Guys & A Hammer

I had a good report with him the whole time we were there. He was pleasant & easy to work with. However, he did not finalize the details & left things unfinished after I left the area, leaving my mother full-paid but with partially finished work with the deck. Code changed since the deck was originally put in so they wouldn't let us put back the original style of railing with seat in place which seemed to throw off his design plan. The construction of the railing was left unfinished. The roofing work he did before the deck turned out pretty great though - No problems getting him out or finishing the job at all. It was surprising how much responsiveness went downhill by the time he got to the deck portion of the project.
He was paid before the job was done & he didn't come back to finish the last part. We had to hire someone else to come out & finish the job. He's also not a full-time contractor which I didn't know, so he was working nights full time & working on the house during the day which may have been part of the problem with getting him to come back.