ALL PRO HOME IMPROVEMENT

His name is Jerry Luciano. He comes off as being a semi-wise guy out of Chicago, but he is just a little parasite. He absolutely ruined the work that he did for us here. He claims to be a general contractor, specializing in gutters and siding. He said he could do the kitchen remodeling, get the house resided, build a garage, and all sorts of things. He never finished the electrical work, and the garage. Nothing he did passed the building inspection, I had to have other people come out here to finish and fix the electrics, and to finish the siding, because he had left half the side undone. The siding was stacked up, there was a bit of snow, and they got cold, so I dragged them into the garage, to keep the vinyl sidings out of the snow. He wanted $22,500 for everything. By the time he wanted his last payment, the siding was now in the garage, one house wasn’t finished, and the electrics hadn’t been passed. The painting on the dry wall in the garage wasn’t finished, the floor wasn’t sealed and insulated the way it was supposed to be, there was supposed to be a drop down staircase that was not installed. It was just a total mess, and I had to have all of that done later. Then there were cost over runs, he would say that the price of cement went up, or the price of two by fours went up, and other such things. This wound up costing another $10,000. I withheld $7,000 out of the original $22,500, and he thinks that I owe him $17,000, though he never filed a suit against me. A friend of mine said that there are over a hundred suits against him in the circuit court’s office in Woodstock. The quality of the work he did was good, other than the fact that the work wasn’t finished in the kitchen and the garage, it wasn’t the carpenter’s fault. Somebody else was supposed to finish the electric, and somebody else was supposed to finish the floor and so on. We had our vacation scheduled, so we went away to our time share for our anniversary. He said he would have it all done by the time we came home. When we came home, nothing was done, and they had built up a cornice like we had in the kitchen that I wanted them to tear down and leave open so that we could get more storage space. Nothing else was done. My mother in law was here for a week, and she was washing dishes in the bathroom. The old stove was still there, the old fridge was still there, but there wasn’t any water in the living room or in the kitchen. She had to go to the bathroom or the utility room to get water to make her tea and things like that. That was absolutely ridiculous.