LIPPITTT HOME IMPROVMENTS LLC

3600.He would not show up on Mondays, as he "doesn't work on Mondays". He would not return calls ever. He did not return or answer a single phone call. He had excuses constantly for because he would not show up for weeks at a time. He replaced the deck and did a decent job. There are places where screws are missing or the wood doesn't meet up the way it is supposed to, but for the price that he quoted, I felt I could live with it. The garage doors worked great for a week and the broke. Which he did have his assistant fix. Then all of a sudden 6 months after being hired (this was a month long job) he stopped showing up and would not return calls. We knocked on his door and he said he would be there the following Monday, but of course, he wasn't. We have since filed a complaint with the better business bureau, and he failed to respond to that. So essentially he did 2000 dollars worth of work and cashed a check for 3600.

The overall experience was very stressful. First of all, the contractor never returned any of my inquiring phone calls, only after running into him at a store did I get to talk to him. When they did show up, and we went over the job with his to employees, he was more concerned with a phone call he had gotten then what we wanted done. The first day, they tore out my floors and even after the contractor said he could pick up the flooring material, failed to do so, so that when we returned later that night we found our mobile home open to anyone who wanted to crawl through an opening in the skirting through the missing floor and rob us blind. After buying the flooring, it took the second day and some of the third for them to install it. The third day they began to work on the bathroom, well one of them did, the second guy took untold amount of time to rebox in our breaker box, poorly at best. When I stopped in the third day, I told the guys working that I needed my home done by that night, this was a Friday afternoon. When my wife came home that night, the workers were gone and my bathroom was unfinished. Not only was the bathroom unfinished but the plumbing was such that I couldn't turn my water on for anything. Waiting Saturday for them to return to fix this, on Sunday I had someone else come in and fix the plumbing. On Monday the two workers returned, I confronted them on this fact, their answer was that the boss doesn't pay overtime (at this point they had only put in supposedly 21 hours), and that they don't work weekends. I told them they were done and to send their boss over so we could talk. When he finally did show up, it turned into a shouting match with him unwilling to make right any of the damage and poor workmanship his employees did. In the end I pacified him with a check for partial payment after being threatened with his lawyer and a lien on my home. The part of this that really got me so upset was that the workers damaged the ceiling in my bedroom and the contractor refused to take responsibility for the damage. When confronted about the poor work and leaving me without any running water, the contractor contradicted himself time and time again while trying to put the blame onto me.