S & J CONSTRUCTION

Description of Work: We needed an island, a double oven cabinet, a countertop to fit a drop in stove, a pantry, a bookcase to hold recipe books, and a frame for a washer/dryer cabinet. Our kitchen tear out person brought Sam Revilla (S & J Construction) in to make our cabinets. Sam quoted $5500.00 for cabinets to be made and $1,000.00 for the paint. This was in February. We did not see Sam for weeks after calling repeatedly. Finally in April when our tile people were there, we got an island and the stove drop in and the double oven cabinet and 3 templates for the tile people to tile up to on the floor. One template was bowed in front and could not be used. The tile folks took all 3 templates out and tiled under the templates. When we finally got our double pantry the last week in April, it had raw wood which looked like plywood on the sides where our shelves were attached. There were 12 doors to the pantry! This made it look like a boys' locker room piece! We asked for 4 long doors to be made. Sam made them all right but they did not meet in the middle. You could slip at least 8 stacked credit cards in the slits where the doors did not close. We noticed that the drawers on the island were crooked and did not shut properly. The reason was that warped wood (not ash like we paid for but some other kind) was used on all three doors which was warped in the first place.. The paint job was awful. There was sawdust in some of our cabinet paint. It appears he did not clean his shop well when he sprayed them and they are rough as they can be. The doors on the cabinets under the stove top overlap and don't close correctly. When we looked at the top of the washer/dryer cabinet, one board on top is 1/8" higher which will make the granite people not be able to put in our granite on 5/3. We called in another carpenter to assess Sam Revilla's job. Another carpenter has told us that scrap lumber was used for our cabinets not the ash wood we paid for. All of the sliding drawers are going to have to be torn out...There are at least 10 because plywood was used for the attached metal sliders in order to be able pull out the cabinets. He said closet wood was used on the top of the cabinet for our drop in stove. Mixed wood was used on our island. Plywood and pine were used instead of the ash we paid for. He was appalled at the sloppy way our inside of our pantry was assembled with unpainted runners on the sides of our pull out cabinet drawers. Plus 1 X 1 plywood pieces were used in all of the back corners and none were of the same height....It looks awful. Our new carpenter is tearing out our entire pantry Sam Revilla has built to make it stable, going to replace the pine and plywood and making all new cabinet drawers to replace the warped wood used on our island drawers. What should have taken possibly 2 to 3 weeks with Sam Revilla has taken him 3 months and then when we threatened legal action, he crammed in these poorly built cabinets at the last minute. We repeatedly told him on the phone that we could not move from Pampa until he got our cabinets in....nothing motivated him except asking for more and more money with no product to show for!