Received an explanation of what needed to be replaced and the cost. Work was completed and water restored.
Calvin did a very nice job on the ceiling and crown. Just wish he would have taken 5 minutes to loosen the light fixture and fan cones instead of mudding over the edges of them. Something I will have to deal with when I replace them. Beyond that I have to say his work is shoddy. He did come back and redo some things to try to make them better. But the only way to fix the biggest problems would be to tear it all out and start over. The top cabinets from one side of the room to the other are not the same height. Standard distance between countertop and top cabinets is 18". For some reason he installed mine at 18 1/2 on one side and 19 1/4 on the side where the sink is, which is the side I use every day. I am short and that inch+ makes a huge difference to reach the second shelf. But I guess I will have to learn to live with it. The countertops are too narrow and do not cover the lower cabinets so there was no drip edge. Calvin is paying to have the people that installed the laminate come back and install a trim piece on the front to extend the countertop out over the lower cabinets. That is scheduled to be done in aprox. two weeks. My one big splurge was my backsplash tile, which is a brushed metal mosaic - $15.00 a square foot. Some of it looks pretty good but in many places you can see the interlocking seams and the little pieces stick out. Some as much as 1/8 inch and are not straight. He did come back and remove the worst ones and put them back on. For which I had to buy another $15.00 tile. He said he would pay for it but didn't. It is a little better, still shows and will never be a good tile job. Once again something I will have to live with. I am going to have to re-grout the tile due to shrinkage and then seal it. When I ask him about sealing it he said he put sealer in the grout. Everything I read online about that says that it doesn't work. I ask him to seal it properly and he refused to do it. So guess I'll be doing that too. There is a 1/2" unfinished gap between the backsplash tile and the top cabinets. So I bought some trim and primed and painted it to cover up that mess...the trim and paint cost another $20.00 out of my pocket to cover up his mistake. One cabinet door is on backwards. Once again something I will have to live. The island hood is 1 1/2" off center over the cooktop and not properly installed. He cut the sheetrock out and attached the plate to boards in the attic then patched around it. The plate that the hood attaches to should go on top of the rock....per the instructions that came with it. Because he got in a hurry and scheduled the laminate before the oven unit was installed there is a 1/2" gap between the countertop and wall oven cabinet and between the backsplash and wall oven cabinet. His fix for that is a 3/4" x 3/4" board that he cut from a cabinet spacer to cover it. The end is bare wood that I need to do something with. Not sure how I'm going to make that look decent. There are numerous smaller mistakes....way too many to mention and explain on here. I have taken pictures of all of them. A few of them he corrected or at least tried to make better but most cannot be fixed. Like a screw hole thru the face of a cabinet...now filled with putty and looks pretty good but still shows. Another one thru the side of the wall oven unit....same fix. All of the nail holes in the toe kick and cabinet crown show. Guess that's suppose to be my job too. The holes can be filled with the putty but it is something he should have done. I paid him to do the job. I should not have to do his finish work. Two pieces of floor tile needed put in where the old cabinets came out and the new did not cover. He put the tile in but did not grout it. Told me I could do that. I had to wipe down every cabinet and drawer, inside and out, because he put the cabinets in before he textured the ceiling and did not cover them. He told me I needed to clean up that mess because he forgot and painted the ceiling and I was suppose to. He said it would be a trade off because he forgot and did it so now to make things fair I needed to clean up his mess and put the knobs and pulls on the cabinets. So I did. He did not paint the ceiling. He put that cheap Pro-X PVA primer on it that leaves it looking gray. I wanted it bright white so I painted it. There are numerous scuffs and scratches on the new cabinets and one on the new wall oven and places that splintered when he drilled the holes for the knobs and pulls.
Several times throughout this remodel I tried to talk to Calvin about some of these things that were not right. Two times he told me I was being too picky. Once he replied with "Are you trying to tell me how to do my job?" And twice he accused me of not trusting him.
I am not saying these things because I am picky and anal about things. I have flipped four houses in the past, worked with a lot of contractors from all trades and have done some of this kind of work myself. I had another contractor come and look at this job. He agreed these things are not right and even noticed some mistakes that I had not noticed yet. He sits on an arbitration board for contractors. His suggestion was to sue for the damages.
I now have a $30,000.00 kitchen remodel that looks like it was done by an amateur instead of a contractor. Sorry Calvin, you are a very nice person and I really like you but for this kitchen remodel I needed a contractor with experience in kitchen remodels....not just a nice person.
Here is my follow up to what has transpired since I wrote the above review. I filed a complaint with Angie?s list and Harbor Renovations refused any kind of settlement. Instead, I got a threatening email from him that said if I did not delete the above review ?He would move forward with his options?. And he did. HE CANCELLED THE ORDER TO PAY FOR THE BULLNOSE FOR THE CONTER TOP TRIM that would fix the countertops that he built to narrow. Looks like I will be paying to have that done because the countertop definitely needs an overhang to keep spills from running down the front of my cabinets and ruining them. So due to my honest review, I lost more on this deal. No wonder people give false reviews on here. Most people that are being threatened will give in and change their reviews. I WILL NOT! I gave an honest review. I have lots of pictures and I will be happy to show anyone the mistakes and shoddy work. I forwarded a copy of the email to Angie's List....that gained me nothing either. Now I?m trying to decide if I should file a complaint with the BBB or take Harbor Renovations to small claims court.
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Hugh was very cordial at first... he was definitely putting his best foot forward and seemed to want the job.
I asked him about one of the extremely negative reviews I had seen on Angie's List about him and he told me that the woman was a problem personality, unreasonable and obviously had mental problems. [That is very close to an exact quote.] Since my background is in Litigation... his commentary and bashing of this past customer did raise a red flag for me and I thought... I wonder if he's says this about everyone who finds a problem with his work. It is not appropriate to bash a past customer because they found a problem with him or his work. I found his negative remarks very unprofessional! [The stated facts are all that are necessary.]
The entire time Hugh spoke as though he would be the one doing the work and indicated that he was readily available to start the work and that it would not take him long to get it done. He also resided close to our home which we thought at the time was a plus for him being able to get the work done quickly as he had indicated. Well, after we had made the agreement and given him the job... all of his promises and commitments went by the way side.
Suddenly, he was busy everywhere else and wanting to put us on the back burner. One of the jobs was w/ a toilet in a bathroom and it was ... urgent... after some pushing on my part... Hugh did get out and take care of that himself.
He gave a verbal quote to my Dad on an added project and when I talked to him about setting up a time for it to be done he raised the amount of the quote... I called him on it and he said oh yeah... that's right.
We got the distinct feeling that after he had given us a work date... he took on other jobs that meant more profit to him and those got taken care of first.
After that we were always told that he was busy with other jobs... and that we would have to wait for his brother-in-law to get into town to help finish the other work on our place. The opposite of his initial representations to us! As I recall, a week or more went by waiting for the brother-in-law to get into town to continue our projects. They showed up late morning often and took long lunch hours always. The work went slowly. A couple of times he pulled his brother-in-law off our job allegedly he had to put him on something else. During this time Hugh became verbally abrupt with me to the point where I thought seriously about just ending the business relationship.
This drug out...
I had a heart-attack and had to go for medical therapy... so I told him we would go ahead and divide the projects in half and the rest could be finished when I got back. Since we were having to wait on his other commitments anyway. I told him that I would be back on May 15th and asked... would he be able to finish our projects at that time and he said yes.
I e-mailed him a confirmation that I was in fact going to be back from Medical Therapy on the 15th of May and again asked him if he would have his brother-in-law out to complete the work on our property by May 15th.
I received a reply e-mail where he said yes he would have his brother-in-law there by Mid-May. [With a background in law - I customarily keep all written communications - e-mail or otherwise.] So I possess this confirmation e-mail from him as proof of same.
I called him 3 times trying to confirm that he would have his brother-in-law out the next week - I never received the decency of a return call. I then sent e-mails... and finally he e-mails me back a ... rude note ... stating that they were not going to wait for us! And that he had sent to his brother-in-law to work somewhere else!
I was floored! Wait on US!! ... All the waiting that had been done was us waiting on him while he never kept his word with us on anything. His note was aggressively insulting and rude and I have it too. I believe that Hugh felt he could get away with bullying us because my Dad is elderly and fragile and I am a Widow who has had a heart attack... to Hugh we were perfect victims! I bet he does not act like this when there is a healthy male involved as with most husbands and wife situations. And I know he certainly would not have treated my Husband this way if he were alive!
This was obviously not the first lie Hugh had told us - everything he promised us in the initial interview with him turned out to be lies! He never kept his word or his representations and now I know 100% why the other lady left her negative review on him. Believe me she is not the one w/ the mental problem. Because of my background in law I am trained in personality/gender profiling... I also believe that Hugh gets his personal friends to leave reviews on Angie's List for him... the very first review at the top of the review list that I read today is allegedly written by a man... yet the statement is made in it... My wife finds Hugh a "JOY" .... this sentence is not something a man would say. It is female language... next... at the end of this same review the reviewer who is allegedly a man and a neutral customer makes a veiled threat to other reviewers who might file a negative review... that if anyone finds fault with Hugh they had better look in the mirror!
This is clearly NOT a statement a normal - customer - w/o personal attachments like friendship or a relative would say. There is no reason on earth why a regular customer leaving a legitmate review would feel the need to be threatening towards other customers of Hugh's who may of had a bad experience with Hugh. I believe this is a "Shill" review. If there is one Shill you can bet there are more! Our experience with Hugh turned out to be a very negative one.
Received an explanation of what needed to be replaced and the cost. Work was completed and water restored.
Had vehicle serviced by Seymour's back in July 2015. Very honest, polite and cost effective. Diagnosed a loud tapping noise from engine as a loose carbon deposit stuck on the edge of a valve. Fixed the issue and had me back on the road within 24 hours. Very reasonable price. I told them...
First, I'd like to point out that Calvin is a very nice person. But, I feel compelled to tell the truth on here. Isn't that what Angie's List is all about????? To help others find a good contractor? I am very confused about his straight A reviews. It is hard for me to believe that he...
Hugh was very cordial at first... he was definitely putting his best foot forward and seemed to want the job. I asked him about one of the extremely negative reviews I had seen on Angie's List about him and he told me that the woman was a problem personality, unreasonable and obviously...
He told me that I should buy a long pole to change the light bulbs in the ceiling that were too high for me to reach, and that his brother-in-law had just bought one and it works great. He also told me that I should go to Wal-Mart and buy the under-the-counter lights and the directions to...
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