BURKHEAD & SON REMODELING

Description of Work: I signed a contract with Mr. Jay Burkhead on 9/9/08 to build me a garage and I had him to include on the contract that the work would be started within approx. 8 weeks and he agreed to it. He signed it as well. It has now been over 17 weeks and he has not even came out and removed the old concrete slab that was left from the old garage and he won't give me a refund of the approx. $5400.00 that I paid him in advance so I can get someone else to do the work. He just keeps telling me that hes behind on his other projects that -he says were in front of me - and he will get to mine as soon as he can. Thats unacceptable and I've contacted an attorney to file a lawsuit against to recover my money. The suit should be processed tomorrow sometime. Also, I made it very clear to Mr. Burkhead before I signed the contract that I didn't want this work to be performed in the winter because I feel that it's not a good idea for concrete to have chemicals added to it to keep it from freezing. I made sure he understood that right from the start. Now he keeps telling me that theres nothing wrong with adding anti-freeze or something else to the concrete - its done all the time. I don't care about that. I don't want it done to my concrete job and he knew that from the start.

Description of Work: We had our basement finished (approximately 900 sq feet). Work included framing, plumbing, HVAC, wiring, drywall, putting in a door and 2 windows (where none had been before) and also replacing our dining room door and replacing one existing bedroom window.