RITEWAY HOME SVC

The work was to start on January 3, 2011. I told the contractor the work had to be done between December 15 and January 15. I had used this contractor twice before and on each one he was two months late in starting. Mr. Grassi said "It won't be a problem because I am a fast painter." When I called Mr Grassi the last week of December he told me he was behind because his shop had been robbed a couple of weeks earlier. He hads also forgotten my job. After a discussion we agreed he would do the work in the middle of May. I was angry because I had paid to have the house cleaned because Mr. Grassi insisted the house be very clean before he started to paint. He started the job on a Saturday in mid May (a day he had never worked before) and that same day he told me he was sick and was not sure when he could finish the work. The next week he worked two days (because he was sick) and then told me he had rest a week before he could do any more work. On Wednesday, of the week he was off work, he called me and told me that he would finish the whole job the next week. However, on Friday of that week he called again and he would finish only the downstairs. When he came on Monday, he said that he didn't have the molding and could not find it. I was very angry because he had started the job two weeks earlier without saying anything about the molding. On Tuesay, he told me he was not coming the next day or the following week because he was doing two other jobs. On Thursday, he called me and told he had to wait at his shops for deliveries and could only come a few hours. On Friday, he did work but because he was in such a hurry the total job was not done very well. I will have to have some of the work redone. After not hearing from him for several weeks (I was sick, my cat was sick, and my sister broke her leg and I had to help her), I called him. He said his brother had been sick and he had to go to Texas and he had forgotten about my job. He also said that he was too busy on another job and he thought he could do my job in "a few weeks." A week later my basement flooded. Many of the things I had moved there so that they would be out of the way for the painting were damanged. By the time Mr. Grassi was willing to finish the work it was too late that summer because I was sick. I had moved things out of the basement to save as much as I could in case of future flooding. I was too sick to moved it all again. The job was never finished. He called me and I was too angry to talk to him as I could not move everything again and I felt that taking two months to do 8 days work was unreasonable. Which meant that to finish the final two rooms I would have to wait until the following summer.