All Tried and True

Description of Work: I had a skylight that had been leaking for a long time. There was water damage on the ceiling and wall. I had them come out to fix the skylight, replace the drywall a,d put in a larger window in the back wall. They seemed to do a decent job until the next time it snowed. The leak was worse than before. They came out a couple times, but never did fix the leak. They said that I would have to pay even more than the first time to have it fixed right. When they originally came, they said that they would do whatever was needed to repair the skylight and repair the damage. They never succeeded. I had used this company for a couple jobs previously, with average workmanship. I will never hire this company for any job again.

Description of Work: I'm not sure at all on the date above......I had Ed come over to my house and give an estimate on a fireplace installation. As he was leaving to quote another job, I mentioned to him I was a Colorado Licensed Electrician.He was needing an electrician for an upcoming job. I said I was available, and he called me up to do a job the following day. I was given a job description, and I told him no problem, it sounded simple enough. I get to his customers house and proceeded to locate an outage somewhere in the basement. The basement electrical was far from code, but I proceeded to locate why the lights in the basement wouldn't come on. After many tedious hours crawling in the attic and ceilings, I found the problem behind a switch in the upstairs dining room. The entire basement lighting was accidentally wired up to a 3way dimmer switch. When I questioned the customer as to who did some work there lately, she said a drywall/painter from All Tried and True did the switch installation on a job done previously by Ed and his crew. This was a mistake an electrician would have never made, and it was a fire hazard having the entire basement wired up to the load side of a 15 amp dimmer switch. Truthfully, it would not have ever occurred to me to look behind this switch even with my 20+ years of experience. I also installed 2 medium sized chandeliers for Ed's customer, although Ed told me there was only one. These were easy, and Ed's customer was so pleased !!! The basement was all back on, the chandeliers were in, and I gave the customer some sound advise on bringing his code violations in the basement up to date. (open electrical boxes, exposed wires in light fixtures, missing devise covers, the list was endless!) I cleaned up and left slightly after dark, and called Ed with my findings, and told him I was there for 8 hours total. He went ballistic, and asked what I usually got per hour, and I told him. I told him I would adjust my fee to something he could live with, and he said he would call me back. After leaving several messages with his voice mail and several more with his secretary, Crystal, I NEVER WAS COMPENSATED FOR MY SERVICES GIVEN TO "ALL TRIED AND TRUE. "My belief is that this company does not hire qualified personal to do the work, and as the case with me, SOMETIMES NEVER PAYS HIS HELP AT ALL. So beware of this company.