Chris' Painting and Home Repair

Description of Work: Interior paint

Description of Work: Chris is the most dishonest contractor we've ever encountered. On the first day of accepting the job, and we paid him $2500 upfront, he decided he would go on vacation to Florida. The following week, he started working on renovating our master bathroom. Initially he promised to have it completed within 2 weeks. It took over 4 weeks. The work he sub-contracted to other parties was rushed and the craftsmanship was terrible. A month after he had tiles laid down, they started cracking and the grout started chipping away. The bathtub he installed, squeaks and doesn't feel very stable. At every stage during the project, he kept asking for more money and balked after being asked for receipts. I stated that normally projects like this are paid after completion, but he stated he could not continue any further unless he had more funds. Not one day after the first did he or his people show up on time or the time he stated he would be there. Very often we had to put off our own plans because they were never on time. We had only problems after problems dealing with Chris and we would never offer his services to our worst enemy. He and his people waste time, money and energy on a project that was poorly planned on his behalf from the very beginning. After he received the money for services, he completely neglected any problems we encountered afterwards. Towards the end of the project, we had him install some lighting in the master bathroom, in which he managed to install crooked. However, as crooked as those lights are sitting, they still aren't as crooked as Chris! | |Here is a list of some of the issues we've had through Chris. | |1. Here is an example typical day through Chris. |a. Arrives 9ish, usually between 9:10-9:30 AM ET. |In this time, nothing other than 2 rows will have been added to the wall. |b. Will come up with something that he needs to go to the store (Home Depot, or ...) this could be around 10:30ish. |c. Leaves for about an hour. (Granted this has only happened on a few occasions, but this is a loss of work momentum.) |d. 12ish - 12:20 PM ET - 12:30 PM ET will leave for lunch, comes back after 2:00 PM ET. |e. Works until 4:30 and then leaves. Almost 2 hour lunch breaks?!?! |2. Another Example is that on 3/6/2015, he installed water room tile and then left, this was only a half days work. Even if he had just installed tile, he could have still got to work on the wall tiles for the shower area. |3. And yet another example of wasted time, is that the water proofing paint, could have been painted on and left to dry, once the backer board was up. This led to the delay mentioned in point 2. |4. Left almost a whole bucket of mortar in a can, provides to waste. If he didn't need the mortar why did he mix up so much? | |In the end, we found out later through other people that worked on this project, that Chris had this sort of work ethic. We kept trying to contact Chris to fix the problems we had with his work to no avail. He has constantly ditched the calls or completely avoided them altogether. The best advice I can give anyone reading this post is to avoid Chris and his home-wrecking services totally.

Description of Work: Painted and redid bathrooms. Wasn't responsive when emailed or called and wouldn't show up when he told us he would. Paint in one bathroom is streaking when shower is used and never would call back about the problem. Just very unreliable.

Description of Work: Was hired to paint my new home's interior before we moved in, and before hardwood floors and carpet were installed.

Description of Work: Painted 1 room(cathedral ceiling), bookcase & hallway.

Description of Work: We used Chris's Painting and Home Repair for kitchen remodeling services. He took care of some exterior things, reglazing and replaced siding on one side of our house.

Description of Work: Pressure wash house, caulk as needed, prime any bare wood, replace trim and siding on 2 dormers, replace 2 rows siding one exterior wall of house, paint all siding, trim, gutters, windows, doors.