Rooms You Love

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Knowing Al Fleischman that goes by Rooms you Love has been the worst experience of my life. I bought an older house and was going to update it. The only thing I was having him do was tile work. The first job he was supposed to start on was my master bath. Then a smaller bath, kitchen, and sun room. The other two professional contractors said that they would be done with master bath in a week. This included busting concrete up to move toilet, and old drain for the shower. Then it had to be plumbed back. All the dry wall had to be moved, and I went from a single bowl sink to a double. I had to plumb for a wall shower, rain shower and a hand held. I mention this because I hired a professional plumber to move toilet, and shower drain, and run all the new water lines for sinks, and shower area. The two contractors quotes where to have all this done, and the bath room completed in a week or less. They where doing the electrical work that needed to be done, and installing ceiling fans, dry wall, glass for walk in shower, and sliding doors. So when he started a large part of the other two quotes had already been done. I assumed it would take about 3 or 4 days for Rooms you love which is Al Fleischman to do finish the tile. Which would of been 900.00 to 1200. This assumption was based on the quotes from time other to contractors gave. He didn't start in Jan. as agreed! He didn't show up for first day until Feb.17. He was good at putting it off and making you think he was going to start. He kept saying the job he was on was running behind he just needed a little more time. He for sure lied about his start date when he had a schedule knee surgery. So he finally shows up and it was a joke. I thought he was going to work. He made it a production of unloading the tile, and other materials. He would rather much rather flirt with Janis at KY tile, or any other women he sees than work. Note to any husbands leaving wife at home while he is in your house! The 3 to 4 days I expected turned into weeks. Crazy thing is he never asked to be paid. I told him after the first week that I would pay him. He said don't worry about it. The second week the same thing. I thought he was giving me any bills because he wasn't doing any thing, and didn't think I owed him much yet. He did a small dry wall patch in another bath where I took the old vanity out. He put mud on master bath ceiling because I took the texture off and made it smooth. I asked him how much it would cost to do these things and he said not much. I knew a professional dry wall guy. So I let him do these in addition. This went on till March 26 when he finally said he need some money. He hadn't finished the shower area yet. The tile area is 40 inches wide, 8 ft. long. a couple of niches, and two benches. Not much of an area. The bath room floor was getting a heated wire, and tile. This was never even done. The small shower area was not grouted, and the tile was left covered with the mortar in cracks. It took hours to scrap out before the tile setters I hired finished. I had a border band in center of tile. The bottom was flush as it was supposed to be. The top had a mismatch of .180, to .125, .090, .06. the point is it was not set proper. The holes are two big for the faucet to cover, and have to be repaired. The drain is not consistant. He told me the was an electrician and had went to school for it. The electrician I hired said what he did was incorrect. All this said the night I was going to pay him in cash because the day earlier he told me he wanted me to pay him in cash so he didn't have to claim taxes. I had 1400. in cash to pay him. I told him I would give him 2500. for the shower when he was done. He said that I owed him 6000.00. I told him that was more than Franks and he was supplying the materials. I had paid 4000. for tile, and plumbing at the point he started working. I told him that was insane. He knew how much I was expecting to pay never kept it a secret. He started yelling and cursing in front of my 7 year old son. I told him to leave, and he thought he was going to intimidate me into paying him. I have much more to add. I will have to finish at another day!

Al doe NOT skimp from Quality workmanship. It is worth repeating again, if you want outstanding quality work Al is the only contractor for you. This project took nine months to complete. Al does 100% of the work himself and i mean 100% by himself, because Al does not use any assistance in his remodeling. When you hire Al as your contractor , you are hiring the person doing the job, not handy man helpers. He cleaned up at the end of each day. He is extremely easy to comunicate your wish list to, and he delivers your vision with beyond expecations.Some contractors want to do complete a project on there terms, not Al, he listens to the home owner, and works with them to make them happy. Quality is the best description. Jaw dropping responses came from family and friends who saw the final results. That type of response was the reason we would use Al for any remodel project again.

It went excellent. I would recommend them.