Britenbaugh Construction

We gave Mr. Britenbaugh a 1000. dollar initial deposit and signed a contract for a bath remodel with an estimated start date several months from the contract signing date. Mr. Britenbaugh promptly cashed the deposit and had no communication with us. A few days before the estimated start date, we called and then emailed Mr. Britenbaugh to confirm he would be starting as expected. He informed us that he was running behind schedule on his current job and gave us a new start date of four weeks later. We told him the job must be completed before Thanksgiving, and he assured us that our job was a 4 week job and he would start on October 12. We also asked him to communicate any further delays in his new start date and anything else that may cause a delay. He agreed to do so. However, when we called and emailed him a few days before the new start date he told us he was behind on his current job and had no idea when he would start our job. He could only tell us that he would start our job after he finished his current job. At this point, we lost all confidence that he would ever show up to do our job, and we asked him to please return our deposit. He refused to return it even though he could not honor his terms of the contract. When we contracted with Mr. Britenbaugh, he had no reviews either positive or negative. I am leaving this review so that others know of our experience and can choose to avoid this contractor so as not provide Mr. Britenbaugh the opportunity to repeat this.