Camo Construction

It went awful, it is awful, this is the worst experience I've ever had with any contractor in my entire life and I also own a business. Every time I go down there I cry I cannot tell anyone strongly enough to never ever and I mean never ever use this contractor. You are better off to get higher quality work to go pick up a homeless person with a sign on the side of the freeway. It took him several months longer to complete the job and yet it's never been officially completed. The only thing done right in this entire job is the walls are in the appropriate locations. Here's a list of what is still wrong. Bathroom; The tile work in the shower is not grouted or sealed properly it is crooked the grout is all over everything it is sloppy it has to be torn out and redone. There is a tile bench in the shower he did not use bullnose tile so if you sit on the bench the corners of the tile will cut through your thighs this was brought to his attention instantly his fax to take a Dremel saw and try to round out the corners fitting the tile and they still cut into your thighs the bench is absolutely unusable no one can sit down in the shower. Understand this shower was designed for a disabled person who has to sit down to take a shower. Brought in another contractor after Jim failed on seven different promises to come fix the shower got three estimates of what it would cost to make the shower functional and usable minimum bid $5000. Bathroom floor tile extends 2 inches past the bathroom door into the hallway. So when you walk down the hallway even if the bathroom door is closed you are going to cut your foot on tile. Grout work on floor tile is done improperly space too far apart to low and not properly sealed. Carpet I paid extra picked out and purchased higher quality carpet and pad then was in the additional bid. I paid the difference for this upfront the carpet was installed but it's not tacked to the basement floor the only place the carpet is talk to the floor is on the stairs down to the basement all furniture has to be removed from the basement the carpet has to be pulled up and tacked down properly the carpet is gathering in the middle and there's about 6 inches of carpet extra in every room and every wall because it was never stretched or tackedto properly. Paint; this is the worst painting job on anything I have ever seen in my entire life. I could've let my 11-year-old paint this basement and wouldn't of ended up with a much better job. There are parts they're not even one full coat of paint the drywall is showing through there are parts where the wall paint is all over the ce paint; this is the worst painting job on anything I have ever seen in my entire life. I could've let my 11-year-old paint this basement and wouldn't of ended up with a much better job. There are parts they're not even one full coat of paint the drywall is showing through there are parts where the wall paint is all over the ceiling. Jim made three attempts to touch up and correct this however he never bothered to do all of the places that were marked with painters tape showing where the issue was he did one third of the marks and called it good. Basement floor; Jim was supposed to sand down a raised area where a support beam was placed in the basement by the builder he did not bother to do this even though it was addressed asked and in the bed instead he carpeted over it now every person that steps down the basement stairs steps on this uneven piece of floor in almost falls over. Jam on five different occasions promised to correct this yet it was never done . Doors; three of the six doors in the basement are hung crooked and in properly they either will not open or will not close to the point they are hitting the floor and you were unable to open the door any further The bathroom door is less then 1/6 of an inch from the tile floor and drags on the tile in 2 places. The door to the storage area will not close it will always pop back open it does not latch and it can only open halfway because of the uneven floor that was supposed to be sanded down by the support beam the door is unable to open further than that. This basement had several windows all egressed windows with screens Jim and his people ruined 3 of the 4 screens. They bent the frames to the screens even if they were rescreened they cannot be used in the windows without the frames being replaced the screens were in original condition and had never been removed from the windows prior to the basement refinish. On four occasions Jim promised to have these fixed they have not been done. When they did the drywall in the basement they taped off nothing not even the heating docks and central air ducts to the rest of the house creating a layer of dust in all ducts throughout the entire home this is the only thing let me repeat that is the only thing he had corrected was he paid monster vac to come out and clean the ducts. And that was in February of this year after me threatening to take him to court he also agreed to have all the rest of the issues corrected the morning he was supposed to come over with the other contractor to complete this work he call that contractor up said screw her I'm done dealing with her I won't fix anything and never showed. All the finish work he cut corners on use lesser quality items then I paid for and slapped it up or slapped paint on it even the railings going down to the basement they were added on the finish must've been painted outside in the wind and sand storm because they will cut your hand as you use them going down the stairs because of all the debris stuck in the paint on the railings I could go on for another 20,000 characters on the rest of the items wrong in this basement I've had estimates from several contractors to fix all of the issues in the basement total cost to correct the damage done to my brand-new basement by this contractor because of the shotty work he did is $15,000. Jim has been made aware on a total of 11 different occasions of the items that need corrected in the basement that he absolutely just did poorly. On the 11th occasion he came over reviewed the other contractors estimates which were also certified mail to him and agreed all of these items needed fixed however on the day the repairs were supposed to begin he let the contractors know he is not doing it and he has no money and he is unable to pay them. Jim never notified me even after agreeing to do the work that he would not be doing it He will take the money that you pay him in advance for the job and spend it and then not have money left to purchase the items and the employees to complete the work properly. Because of this it drug the completion or should I say the shoddy work completion of my job out an extra three months and still to this day has not been corrected. If you have any questions or would like to see the work this awful thieving contractor has done feel free to contact me. I had a limited budget to do this basements I spent all of the money I do not have the money to fix the work he didn't do properly and now I'm stuck with this awful and partially unusable space that I paid over $40,000 to have done. Do yourself a favor hire any other contractor this man is a scammer in a con artist and does not have any skills to finish any basement anywhere anytime. I am a single mother with a very ill child and he knew this and he still took total and absolute advantage of me and all of the money I had saved to do this job. It takes a lot of evil in one person to do that and sleep at night