Molinari Carpentry

Nice guy who was sometimes hard to track down. Didn't use him on my project, but would have him bid on something else in the future.

I contacted Molinari Carpentry to do some finish cabinet work in the kitchen and also build two custom cabinets, one as a linen closet in the bathroom and a stand alone one in the kitchen area. First made contact back in late April early May and said the work needed to be completed by at the latest first week of June but preferably by Memorial Day or shortly thereafter he said no problem the trim work takes a day I can build the cabinets at the shop then install them. Mr. Molinari asked for some dimensions and said he would put together a price. What carpenter worth anything doesn't go look at the job firsthand? After several back and forth about every week or ten days, Molinari finally says Ill go down and take a look. The house is in cape cod, the alleged shop is in Scituate, forty minutes away. Another week goes by Molinari says no problem blah blah blah. I get a contract by email on Thursday May 16th standard stuff, send me a check for twelve hundred dollars the rest due upon completion. Here it is three weeks from first contact he want twelve hundred dollars, the job is suppose to be done in another one to two weeks and this guy who I have never met, never seen any of his work, was never given any references, and had no contact with except a couple phone calls, wants me to send him a check for over a thousand dollars, IS NOT HAPPENING. I email him and say look give me a day this week that you can come to the house and do the kitchen trim, should only take a day, Ill give you the 300.00 you wanted to do the trim, if it looks good and I know your legit I give you half the money for the cabinets, for stock and what not, and upon completion of the first cabinet pay the balance. All of a sudden I get an email, Oh because you didnt send the twelve hundred I lost the two days I had scheduled to make your cabinets, now I cant complete the job on time, I will have to pass! WHAT?? Back and forth for three weeks I get a contract on Thursday and because you didnt get your twelve hundred dollars by Saturday you cant do the job as scheduled. On the surface Molinari may have looked like he was interested but this was a scam from the get go. No references, never wanting to meet the people trying to hire you, waiting until three weeks after first contract to look at the job, if he even went to the house, I have no idea, and then backing out at the last minute, this has SCAM written all over it. Stay away from this guy. I dont hand over thousands of dollars to people I have never even seen or met or who don't come to the house and look at the job. He will say because of time constraints I could not do the job but we both know what was going on here and you should too.

Molinari Carpentry did an absolute great job and I highly recommend them. Wayne is a perfectionist in the best sense of the word and the quality of his work is impeccable.His carpenter Jesse was also great. They were extremely responsive and always on time. Did the job in a reasonable time frame as well. Bottom line is we are very pleased and will hire Molinari Carpentry again!