JOSEPH A ZEHALA DESIGN BUILD

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Carpenter (John) was excellent and timely. Besides that, everything else went wrong: the work was of extremelly poor quality (the brick patio for instance wans't flat, with the lowest corner next to the house) , we had to call J. Zehala several times to have it redone; and each time it was poorly redone. We gave up and hire another contractor who did a perfect job. Another issue is that J. Zehala does multiple jobs at any given time. As a result, he would not show up at our place for several days. It took 4 months to complete a 3-week job. When workers would show up, 1 would work while the other 2 would smoke. A lot of stress for a job that had to be redone,

Throughout this time, he left the interior trim of the windows in the living room and the master bedroom uncompleted. After my Father(a former client of J.A. Zehala)called him, he finally sent an employee on October 3, 2008 to finish the installation of the interior trim work around the windows in the living room and master bedroom. The trim was installed, but was not painted, and none of the drywall that was disturbed in the master bedroom was patched. At some point on Monday October 6, 2008, he did remove the accumulating debris from my front yard. After letting more than a week pass, I called Joe Zehala of J.A. Zehala on the morning of October 14, 2008 to see when he planned to finish the work on the windows. At that time, he told me he would try to send someone out at the end of the week. Having been told the same line several times before I told Joe Zehala of J.A. Zehala that I wanted the windows done by the end of the week or I would have to lodge a complaint and potentially take him to small claims court. He became very agitated and told me not to give him an ultimatum and to go ahead and sue him if I wanted. After pointing out that the contract stated the work was to be completed in 4 to 6 weeks he hung up on me. The next day I filed complaints with both the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation and the Fairfax County Department of Cable Communications and Consumer Protection. I am still awaiting their rulings. I hope that anyone reading this will be saved from having to endure the experiences I went through.

I asked for change in the pitch of the roof because it leaked. He said he had to get the permits. The architectural drawings that he did were three feet off. Because of the change in size it made no master bedroom. They finished all of that a year ago and nothing has been done since. I have had no gutters and no chimney for over two years. For over a year I had no toilet. Now I have one toilet and five bathrooms. No showers, no fixtures, no sinks, no vanities and no kitchen. I didn't have enough electricity in the house to have furness, a stove, or a washer. When it was winter and water was coming in the basement. If I had the dehumidifier on I as dry and cold. If I turned the furness on I was warm and wet. The basement is full of mold. It is five feet high no the walls. It is all full of mold. Everything we had was stored in the basement.