Enzo Di Re General Contracting LLC

BEWARE OF THIS CONTRACTOR! We were looking to expand the 2nd story of our home. The contract was written up in a typical fashion with an initial deposit and the rest of the payment due upon completion of the project. These guys worked for over a week and barely accomplished anything! During the demolition, two unrelated spaces (a hallway and bedroom) suffered major ceiling damage. One of the crew members actually fell through the ceiling of that unrelated bedroom. Without engineer approval, they even cut chunks out of a major Micro-Lam support beam, compromising the structural integrity of our home! They were supposed to add an additional Micro-Lam support beam on the other side of the room and instead used a sandwich of old used boards! After finally starting construction on the 1st wall, the contractor immediately began demanding the rest of the funds for the project, which was not as contracted. We would have been crazy to pay 100% of the cost with this job nowhere even near completion. When speaking with the crew members, (one of them being the contractor’s own son) they informed us that they had gone unpaid for the duration of the project, and that the contractor spent the deposit on personal, unrelated expenses. The contractor and crew walked off the job, took their tools, and left us with a completely exposed, open roof. We had to act quickly as rain was imminent. We hired another local contractor with a much larger crew and tons more experience to finish the job, which only took them two days. The damages suffered include the loss of our deposit, major damage to the ceilings of the nearby bedroom and hallway (which were not contracted work areas), damage to the main support structure of the 2nd story of our home, additional costs to have an engineer redesign the support structure, the cost to jack up the house and replace that ridiculous wooden sandwich they created with a real Micro-Lam support beam, damages to the first floor of the home (including electrical damage) due to heavy rains passing right through their cheap tarps, as well as all the frustration and lost time associated with all of this. Then, to add insult to injury, a few days after the contractor and crew disappeared, he returned without warning while my wife and I were at work and entered the home (the doors were locked) to snoop around and take photographs for some reason. You can imagine how uneasy this would make anyone feel. As per our experience, I wouldn’t recommend this contractor to my worst enemy, let alone anyone else!