Simply Plumbing Heating & Air Conditioning

Well first off he was supposed to do the job on 8/8/11 he did not start till 8/10/11 when he called that morning he said he was coming, and I asked do you have everything you need his reply was yes. He showed up at about 10:30 am was at my residence about 1 hour before telling me he had to run to store he forgot something , this was at about 11:30 am. He left, and I waited and waited for his return, finally I called his cell phone at around 3:30 or so and left a message, he returned my call immediately and said that he had been in an accident and was admitted to hospital but said he would be released on 8/11/11, and he said he would call and set up a time to finish the job. He called on 8/11/11 said he would be there the next day 8/12/11, and he showed up at 9:30 , was here for a couple hours then had to run home to cut pipes, his son also was helping him, I just happened to walk around the side of the house when I heard him tell his son, "come on hurry up I want to get this done and out of here", well he left again to take his son home, came back to finish up. When he was done I wrote him a check for the remaining balance,(gave him $500.00 to start the job) he said to call him when our gas logs came in and he would come and put the fittings on and hook it up, well our logs came in and we tried for 2 weeks to get ahold of him he would not return our calls, so I had to go buy new flex pipe for fireplace because the pipe he used I couldnt find any fittings to fit the gas company came on 9/16/11 they could not hookup the gas line because he failed to bond the gas line to the electrical breaker box something that he should have known needed done if he was D.O.T. certified which he told me he was when he gave me the estimate for the job,so I bonded the gas line to the breaker box myself, and the gas company came out for a second time on 9/23/11 could not hook up gas he did not do the job to code several things need redone and I have to hire another plumber to fix it, and since columbia gas came out twice next time there is a charge for them to come out and test the lines, oh by the way there were also many leaks which the gas company couldn't even find, So in ending I would NOT recommend this plumber to my worst enemy!!