PAUL'S PAPERHANGING AND PAINTING

Poor. (this was a paint store that Paul's uses and a different brand and type of paint was used. He took it upon himself to change from oil to acrylic without asking. As we all know, oil and acrylic will change over time and look differently. I didn't want the rest of the trim work in the house to be different) We were satisfied with the 3rd coat as far as the color but Paul had to now paint oil over acrylic because he chose to use acrylic without our approval. We will now have to worry that it will separate from the acrylic in the future because oil is a heavier paint. (other trim work was painted only 2 months prior. Paint color doesn't change in 2 months) (clear coat was sprayed before the sanding dust was remove thoroughly creating a gummy saw dust mess on several of the drawer glides) (we placed blue tape on all of the drip marks, when we were finished the cabinetry looked like a Dalmatian they were so spotted), (yes, I believe a "drop or two" could have been done as a touch up but a "drop or two" or a nail hole or two wasn't the case) (approx. 20-30 nail holes could be seen (that area must have been the pathway to the door). (again, calling these major issues, "touchups") The decision to not have them back came from all the excuses for the poor work. If Paul had said "you know we see your concerns and we will make it right" we would have given him the chance to make it right. When he said "touchup" when I saw nail holes that weren't filled prior to painting, and spray guns drip throughout the cabinetry, this wasn't "touchups" in our eyes. Does touchup work cost $1200-$2600??? This is the amount he quoted to charge us to make it right. You're darn right I was demanding. When you spend $90,000 plus for a new kitchen/dining room, I don't expect the major part of the kitchen painting to be low quality work. (did you notice he said the "work was done"? It certainly wasn't done in our eyes (we took off the amount he was going to charge us to brush paint the cabinets. We didn't want to take the chance to have over spray on appliances, granite etc. therefore we had to go with brush painted cabinets. We knew we would have to pay a new painter to RE-DO and we weren't paying Paul the full amount when we would be paying another painter to try to make it right. As it turned out, it cost us more than that to have painter brush paint, fill holes, sand etc. We still aren't happy that our cabinets now have brush marks. They do look a whole lot better than when Paul "WAS DONE". (we never received an original estimate and that is why I put N/A. And WHY would we have to pay Paul an additional amount to re-do what should have been done correctly in the first place????? Is it our fault that you took the barriers down before you had our approval?