MAINTENANCE & CONSTRUCTION SERVICES

Description of Work: I paid the contractor $2000 in fall of 2007 to flood-proof basement. The contractor installed a sump pump and a created a channel around the perimeter of the basement. The basement flooded twice after that, but since the sump pump worked, at least, I accepted that the basement is probably not flood-proof. Then, I paid the contractor $5500 in April 08 (half up-front) for an $11,000 job, to enclose back porch and also do work in kitchen: install new sink and fixtures, garbage disposal and dishwasher. Finally, three months later, the contractor started on the work (the men he hired started to work). They tore down existing porch structures and put up new structures including windows with screens and hung doors (there was no door jamb on south side door, and large gaps at the bottom of both doors). The contractor then stormed off the job when I found out about and complained of his use of prison labor. The drywall is not finished. Wires are hanging out of the walls inside and out. Electrical outlets are not finished. The porch light does not work (the switch is hanging out of the wall). The upstairs window was replaced because the roof was higher than the window, and in removing the old window, the structural integrity of the wall may have been compromised. There is a large hole in the dry wall on the south side of the porch exposing the porch to the elements (the hole in the drywall was to contain a small A/C); stacks of metal, heaps of cast-off materials, garbage left behind by workers, and a huge box of refuse as well as boards and beams in the back yard that need to be hauled off. The job is completely unfinished.