Global Pacific Environmental Inc

The work that was done was mostly excellent, the crew under the supervisor was nice and conscientious. I think the lead remediation was done safely, and most of the craft part was well done, though there were some obvious small gaffs (window sills with saw cuts showing, sloppy spots missed under the eaves when painting the trim, extended sills not caulked correctly). The grant paid for about $19,000 of work, and we contracted them to do some extra work for about $1500 in addition. The supervisor, Dan Stoltz, was the reason for the negative review. During the course of the project Dan seemed to forget instructions and details often. He hounded my wife to sign off on work done when it wasn't, calling and texting repeatedly then showing up to collect her signature. I became the go between between him and my wife because she felt he was hounding her and trying to intimidate her. The grant provided for our family to stay in a hotel for 5 nights, so we took a trip to Yellowstone, and were gone for 6 nights. Though we told Dan of our trip and plan to give them 6 nights to work on the lead removal on the inside of the house, we returned to an unfinished job, and Dan claiming that we had told him he had 10 days. Finally, Dan ran out of the main house paint color and got a slightly off color for the touch up. Of course he was frustrated that this had happened, and I know that probably wasn't his fault. But he tried to sell the idea that the miss-colored patches would "cure" to the right color in 7-10 days, which I didn't believe, and of course was crap. He did come back to try to do the touch up spots with the right color, but again did not use the right color, and the problem never got resolved. It was obviously his issue to deal with, and a professional way of dealing with it would to fix it gracefully and BEFORE expecting payment for services. We had already signed off on the $19k grant funded part of the job, and after waiting a few weeks for Dan to get it right, I texted Dan and told him we wouldn't be paying for the extra $1500 until the painting was correct, and the extended sills that had issues were fixed. Here's the text I sent him: 8/16/2015 "Hi Dan. We have an invoice from you guys we haven?t paid yet, as if the job is done. There?s still work to be finished before we will pay the bill. The touch up paint is still off, the sill repair still needs fixing. We?ve been over it all before but there?s been no follow through. What?s up?" Although he'd previously agreed in person that the touch up color wasn't right and some sills were done badly, he then said he we'd have to pay before the work was done and that he'd handle the situation from there "legally". So we sent a letter to Global Pacific and told them about our dissatisfaction and troubles with Dan, and that we would deduct our time and cost to finish the work ourselves, and that we never wanted to see Dan again. No one from Global Pacific has contacted us in the months since, no legal action has been taken. The lead abatement grant in itself is a great deal if you qualify, but you should treat the contractors with suspicion at least to the point that they need to complete the job before they get paid. They were all supposed to be "vetted", and professional. Not too much to ask.