He quoted us $700 to completely repair and replace all the deck boards on our porch and to repair any deck boards that needed repaired, so all of the structural elements of the deck that were included in the deck boards and so I agreed to the service and then he showed up about two weeks late. Every week I would call him and say, "Hey, what's going on?" and he kept giving me a runaround thing that he had other jobs that he's having trouble finishing. He eventually showed up with another person, a trainee, and they started working on the deck, and I stayed home and watched them and everything seemed to be going just fine. Around the end of the day, he came and talked to me and said, "Hey, this is going to take more than one day. I wasn't able to finish". I said, "That's not a problem. So, you will be back tomorrow?" He is like, "Yeah, I have to charge you by the hour." I'm like, "Oh! I'm paying $700 for the job." He is like, "Oh yeah, we have to talk about that too. I just spent $800 and something dollars in materials alone." So, he is like, "I'm going to charge you more". I'm like, "Oh, why didn't you tell me that before you cut all the boards and try to install it?" "Yes, you're asking that was way off". Like, if you're charging $700 for the entire job and that includes your profit, paying $800 something for the materials and then telling me after the fact, and then he said, "Whoa, I'm not even done buying the materials. I'm going to buy more." I reluctantly agreed that the price could be rated like $800 and he was not too happy about that, but I wasn't happy about it either. He came back the next day, did some work but did not finish it, and left without really discussing why, but he had apparently had another job he had to be on. Then, in the end, I finally, myself, bought the remaining deck boards and finished the job myself. He never finished it. I told them over the phone, I'm like, "Hey, you never finished the job, but you're asking for a full payment." He was telling me, "Okay, if you don't pay me, I will take out a lien on your home." I said, "Okay, fine." After discussing with my wife, I guess that's fine, we'll pay him, and then we're done with it. I paid him I think $884 was the final cost which he was very unhappy. I was very unhappy with the whole thing. Since he was kind of irate on the phone, I did not post any negative comments. I didn't post any negative comments because I don't want any repercussions because clearly he would know who installed for the porch deck boards. I did not feel comfortable posting anything negative about them. Hopefully, a year has gone by and he's cooled off and he can deal with the repercussions in having a bad service. I was completely unhappy. I would rate the job as an "F" overall. It's complete auto failure. I have found out since that he never replaced any of the structural elements of the deck. The reason we were having the deck replaced was because of a rotten deck board, but some of the structural elements were also rotten, while he said he was going to replace what he needed to be replaced in order to make it structurally sound, none of those boards were replaced. Now, the new deck is on and I'm not going to rip off the new deck in order to go replace them. So, eventually I'm pretty sure that those will rot out and I will have to have a new deck down again.