Rick Spicer

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He talked a big game and talked a lot and then executed in a really poor way on everything but the crawl space, but that took weeks. 
The bathroom is shoddy.  The floor was uneven and they just laid tile over the floor, no concrete board underlayment (despite promising on the contract that there would be concrete board).  They didn't properly reseat the toilet.  We have to have someone come back to fix that.  The hot and cold water are reversed.
They framed in the landing of the basement and ran electric from an outlet to a light switch.  We had to have that fixed so that we didn't have to turn the laundry room light on to use the outlet.
In putting the front window in, they made a complete mess of the front yard.  We had to fix it the landscaping/grass.
He installed the wall oven poorly.  The top half of it was tipping out.  We had to fix that.  
There's a lot of wasted time talking.
There was other work that he was originally supposed to do, but he was taking so long and charging so much we started calling in other people who he harassed both while they were here and when he would see them out.
Not a good guy.

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Rick and his crew worked very efficiently. He estimated that the work of remodeling the bathroom would take about a week - he took a little longer than that, but only because I ended up changing my mind about the floor tile and asked him to change it - which he did without any issue. Even though the crew ran into some small issues while working (for example, 2 of the newly laid bathroom floor tiles cracked the moment that they placed the new toilet on top and they had to replace the broken tiles), they worked around them and assured me repeatedly that they would never leave the job until all of their very high standards were satisfied).

The quality of his work was very good and he was here on time every morning. I could also always reach him on his cell phone anytime.