Danz Remodeling & Handyman Services LLC

This has been a long and very bad experience. I contacted the contractor on 05.08. 2014 for a small remodel project at a rental home. We met at the project site on 05.09.2014 to look;over what needed to be done and for him to provide me an estimate. After looking over the project, I was given a quote of $5000 as an esitmate. At this time I was told this estimate may seem high, but it was an estimate. It will be the first of July before he could start the work. We agreed on that date. On June 18, 2014, I was contacted by the contractor on a start date and was asked about some additional work on the house. Since I live in another state, I told him I needed to stick with the original start time of around July 1. We met on July 8, to finalized the terms of the project, get a copy of the contract and pay the first of 3 installments on the work. The estimate remained at $5000. He cashed the check immediately. Two weeks later I return to the site and no work had started. I wish I would have realize this as a warning sign to back out of the deal. He finally started on the work in late July. He would work on the project only when I was in town. In August I had contracted with an electrical company to some work in the kitchen so he had to complete the work on the kitchen ceiling for them to complete their job. It seemed that at this time he was committed to the job so when he asked for the second installment, I gave it, although less than a third of the contracted work had been completed. And for once when I left town and returned he was there working. Afterreceiving the second installment on 08.18.2014, that was the last time he was on the job. On 10.04.2014, after much ranging on the telephone, he agreed to complete the work by 11.28.2014. Nothing was ever done. I contacted the contractor by certified mail in December (he received 12.24.2014) requesting a refund of $2000 of the $3700 dollars he had been paid. After no response in April I file for a small claims judgment in Okalossa County, FL Court, Small Claims Division. On 07.06.2015, we had preliminar hearing and we both agreed to mediated the agreement. We signed mediated agreement on 07.06.2015. He was to complete the work by September 15, 2015 and he will be paid what turned out to be more than the amount on the original agreement. He did nothing. However one week before the 09.15.2015 deadline he contacts me wanting me to agree to a 15 day extension.I told him this was a court ordered agreement and I could not agree to any extension. He needed to contact the court to get that extension. Of course he did not. On September 18, 2015 the County Judge awarded a judgment in my favor. On 11.12.2015 I filed an aid of execution order with the Okalossa County FL County Court to have them aid in the collection of my judgement. More money spent. It will be a miracle if I get any money back from this ordeal. In using the Florida Biz Ops.org website the court provide me I found some disturbing info on this contractor. Angie members, do your homework on this guy. He bragged to me, how much work he was getting from Angie List Members. He may work for you. He did not work for me so I cannot provide a good rating. After many trips to check on progress, court filings and court date this has been a big waste of time and money. Just do not want something so bad or you believe that cannot find a person do the work that you ignore the warning signs.

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I tried Dan out with several of my Honey Do List items that I could not get my husband to do. We are looking for someone who can do much more around our home, and thus far he has been wonderful. He put up shutters on the house and has done several other odd jobs for us. Very reasonable, dependable and a great attention to detail. He also has done a great job of communicating with us with the current job we are using him for. Would highly recommend.

The work Dan did was fantastic. Based on the quality alone, I am completely happy and doubt I could have been happier with a different contractor. It took him longer than he expected; but, the quality and price were fantastic. He has a lot of clients; but, is worth the wait. He will make sure you are happy and offered me different options for the bookshelf he built prior to getting started.

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Danz remodeling is just great. This is the second time we have used him and he is very good. We had to wait a few weeks to get on his schedule but when he started he were very happy. He replaced our retaining wall next to the pool. There is no comparision from the before to the after, I wished I used him sooner. Hard to fine good work around here. I will not hesitate to use him again, just be patient and you will be happy, we were.

I gave Danz Remodeling And Handyman Services my address and information and they never called me back.

I had no problems. Right after I requested it, whenever I looked it up, he was there the next day. He was very nice, he responded right away. He came over, he was very nice.

Dan was very willing to take care of our needs. He drew a plan of what we wanted and gave us a quote on that plan. We have a smaller area in our backyard for it to be placed so it had to meet certain specifications. Dan went beyond the "call of duty" to put composite wood on the steps and platform which will allow it to be splinter-free. The framework is built solidly to withstand strong winds (which included 60 mi. per hr. winds in a recent storm). He also customized the great roof over the platform to last through the years. We were so pleased with the results and highly recommend anyone interested in a custom wood swing set to contact Dan Rucker. Our granddaughter was so excited to see it on her birthday and enjoys playing on it daily!!

They were fine.

I had to have my septic tank drain field replaced, which left about 2/3rds of my back yard nothing but dirt. Our 6 dogs would go outside and play in the dirt and then bring the dirt back into our home. We had dirt all throughout our house, even on our beds. My wife and I decided to put up a temporary wire fence to keep our dogs out of the dirt. We went to Lowes and purchased the wire fencing and the metal post, but being 70 years old, I am not physical able to do the work on my own. I called Danz to provide the labor to install the fence for us. He came out the very same day and installed it. He is very a very pleasant and professional man, the job turned out GREAT, and his price was much less than I had anticipated. We had used Danz Remodeling in the past to hang 2 doors for us, and he did a beautiful job on that too. You can be assured that I will use him again. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND DANZ REMODELING AND HANDYMAN SERVICES TO EVERYONE!!!

Excellent work!

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Mr. Danz was very professional and knowledgeable. He knew exactly what I wanted and offered suggestions to make the design better. I decided to go with a different company for the work but will keep him in mind for future work.

Add extra time, Make sure the area you are getting done is completely empty, and the area will get dusty and dirty...

He charged me more than he said it would be as a result of the time he spent hanging them and included work that I specifically asked him not to. From the beginning: Over the phone, the original deal was that he would charge me $35/hour for service (with military discount) to hang Christmas lights on my small but tall house (2 story). I asked if he could come and see exactly how much it would be (or how long it would take since his rate was an hourly one) to hang up lights on all front ledges of my house and then follow up for a work date which I had planned on buying more Christmas lights by then as I knew I might be a few short. As it turns out he arrived for what I thought was just going to be an estimate and turned out to be the same day service which I agreed reluctantly since I had not purchased extra lights to hang and he assured me that I could leave to buy more while he was hanging the lights that I had (at least 5-7 new boxes). He told me that the work would take 1.5 - 2 hours but not longer. The first thing that bothered me was when he then proceeded to go through each string of my old none working lights and replacing the individual bulbs rather than hanging the new lights still in boxes ready for him to hang and so I can also get to the store to buy more lights. He advised me that he knew how to fix none working lights and that I may not need to buy more but then he took out the instruction sheet that came in the box and began to read. Since he was on an hourly rate, I insisted that he get started with the new lights while I went to the store to buy more. As I was leaving my house, he asked me about some old red lights hanging around my front door and I told him I didn't want them there anymore and not to bother with them. I was willing and able to take them down myself. He seemed okay with it. When I came back from the store, I was at first relieved to see that he still had 1-2 more boxes to hang since my concern was that I took too long getting more lights and he was having to wait for me but then I saw that he had done just the opposite of what I had just told him before I left, he rehung the old red lights around my front door and because not all the bulbs were working, he had taken the time to switch the bulbs around so that the none working bulbs wouldn't be seen from the street and all the working ones would... and then charged me for it! Again, this is work that I did not want. Now I'm trying to see the alternative here. If he had hung up the Christmas lights I gave him and not the old red lights that I didn't want, he probably would have ended up waiting for me to return in which case I would legitimately owed him the money however I assumed he would've been a little more accommodating since I didn't plan on him doing the work the same day to begin with. But he still charged me more than if he had done it right the first time and with ALL the lights needed to get my desired look when I have a partially lit house with old red lights that I don't want. Conclusion: It turned out that the 'extra' boxes of lights that I bought were not enough to cover all the front ledges as I wanted and as was intended in our deal. When he finally finished hanging the remaining lights, he came in to tell me that the work took much longer than he thought it would and I now owe him $105 to include that extra hour of service. I was a bit confused since he said it would cost $75 total for 2 hours (or less) to do the whole front of the house and here I was being charged $105 for a house half lit! I expressed my concern with him and he only reminded me of the tedious work he did on rearranging the red bulbs on the strand of lights around my front door (which again, I did not want) and then said because I left and I didn't answer a phone call of his (he had a question) which I missed while I was out. The answer to his question was in no way a hindrance to the work he should have gotten done by the time I came back. It was more of a suggested number of extra lights to buy but somehow that wasted his time and legitimized my hiked rate. To make feel better, he offered to hang up 3 more strings of lights (to complete the job) for only $35 more. Recommendation: If your going to hire this guy for work (I wouldn't) then I would suggest keeping a close eye on the clock while he's working, he tends to be a very slow worker which of itself is not a bad thing necessarily but keep that in mind since I don't think this guy has a realistic view of how long a project is going to take him. Also, beware of hidden 'fees' or projects that he may elect himself to do and charge you for.

Dan called EVERY time he said he would until we could accord the date. He brought his equipement and was sawing nessesarily right here in our driveway. I believe he stayed longer than anticipated but attention to detail was the reason. I was almost hesitent 'greedily' to type on Angies list how pleased I am as I have another job scheduled in October with Dan for a custom built pantry underneath my staircase - and then after that I expect the next time something comes up it will be a longer wait as he will be getting more and more buisness. All I can tell you is that in my opinion, Dan's quality is worth the wait.

Danz was very prompt coming out to give me an estimate for job of installing 2 external doors. He went with me to Lowe's to help pick out the doors for my house. He then picked up the doors for me since I had no way to haul them. He installed the doors with his wife Brenda in very professional manner. He is very knowledgeable and dependable. I will most definitely use him again for all my handy man work, and I will refer him.

Overall the project went very well.

He is prompt, he came out the same day to look at it then started the next day. He does a good job.