S Mays Construction LLC

This is the last set if emails from me and his partner, Colleen, never completed anything and when asked colleen said this is not the work rather the warrantee. But the work was never done. I wrote: you are now claiming that this is warranty work.Warranty work applies when something was done correctly and then does not function or it breaks. This work was never done correctly in the first, second, or third place.This job is NOT completed The landing is still collecting water and creating an ice hazard for us and for my clients. The sump pump piping was installed improperly and it is interfering with the removal of the sump cover to the extent that it is impossible to take it off and put it back on.The piping is not aligned with the pump or with the cover. They claimed these were warranty issues even though they never finished. They are issues in which the work done does not measure up to the job specs. It is substandard work that is not aligned with the Uniform Construction Code.No call or email between us has ever even hinted that this job is or ever was completed. You repeatedly refer to the work that still remains to be done in your emails. No one from your company has been here since the beginning of January. Your emails about work still needing to be completed are as recent as last week. Now you claim it is done and that this is warranty work. By charging that final payment before job completion you are in violation of contract law and of fair business practices. $4,100.00Then, charging my card for the balance when the work is not done is a violation of your own contract as well as a violation of my credit card because it was not authorized by me.We had already paid you 85.4% whereas the contract you wrote states that 25% is due ?upon completion? We should not have been charged more than 75% according to your contract and here charged 85.4% and then on Jan 18th you made an unauthorized charge to my credit card for what would have been due upon completion. But the job is in no way done.The charge you made to my card of $1200.00 is illegal and unethical and I will take care to protect myself from such practices and also to help others to not be subject to such practices as well.That would not be necessary if you corrected this. But from your email you are clearly not willing to do that at this time. I am hoping that you will correct this so that I do not have to take any further action myself. front walk. Unfortunately it rained and when we got home there was a puddle that remained on the front landing for two days. I know Shawn said it is supposed to be built so that the water rolls off of the landing.You still have not responded to the fact that I did not authorize the charge you put on my card on Jan 18th. You had asked me about payment and I told you NOT to use the card until all of the work is satisfactorily done. Then, Dr. Klein told you that when the work is all completed to please charge his card instead of mine. I have asked and written about this several times. You still have not corrected that even though the work is not finished. Re your comment on the insulation, Dr Klein asked Shawn to insulate the crawl spaces the day the men started working. Shawn cancelled the sidewalks because the town would not permit it during this time of year. We did not know that people do not do sidewalks in cold weather. Shawn said he would deduct that from the bill. We did not find out that he did not get the permit for it until more than a week after they began working. The sidewalk has nothing to do with the insulation.Regarding the dirt left on the basement floor, Shawn told Dr. Klein that the painter will repaint it anyway and that is the best he could do. My husband felt pressured and at the time did not know that no painter will touch that floor because it was so filthy with earth. Because of that it is still not painted. There were still clumps of earth and the rest was just covered with a thick film. I am sorry you had to do this in your socks. I suggest getting a service who does this kind of cleaning. It was so soiled that it needed a professional and not a business owner in socks to do the job. I am having that done by a service who does that because no painter will touch it while it is so full of earth. You write : ? If we were left to do our job, we may have had a very different result. ?Had just let you ?do your job? without his input, we would still have a crooked lopsided sidewalk, newly, installed, broken steps. When you came and supervised after it had been done that way, you said that had it been repaired the way Shawn wanted, it would have been a patch job. It was careless to put in a broken step in the first place. Why didn?t they check it before installing?Had you or the men been left to do the job, as you write, we would also still have crooked, leaky sump pump pipes , a mismatched unaesthetic, uneven, lopsided, concrete walkway that we would not have been able to live with.There would still be dangerous pits in the ground endangering people entering and leaving. The backyard would still look like the junkyard that the men turned it into. There were piles of dirt left in the front walkway for days without Shawn responding to any of my calls during that time to get him to make it safe for me and my clients to enter and leave the premises. The fact that I use crutches to walk as do many of my clients, makes it even more of a hazard. Even Mike, the plumber, began cleaning up some of the strewn rocks, pipes, tools and food containers that your men left in front of the house as well as the mud and dirt all over the place. I know that we showed you pictures of that mess. These errors were acknowledged by Shawn but quickly set aside as nothing.Also acknowledged at the time, was that the men breaking ground and drilling in the basement did not put tape on the doorway to prevent the dirt and dust from traveling throughout the whole house all day long. You and Shawn both said that they should have known better than to not take that precaution. But it seems to not matter once admitted, as if that erases it.There was also a large area of water in the basement after the work was said to be done that could have caused more life threatening mold conditions had it not been corrected. We were perhaps fortunate that we got water in the basement at that time. That made it clear that more work was needed to make the water drain into the French drain, rather than remaining in the basement.Rough chipped, unfinished stone walls, unpainted and unpaintable all around the basement at the bottom outer edge of the French drains would have been left that way had Dr Klein left you to ?do your work?.Pipes coming out of the sump pump were sticking out in the middle of the floor, two feet away from the wall and others one foot away from the side of the house in the back yard, both creating a hazard for people to trip over while also taking away useable space. What if there were snow covering it? People would trip over the pipes and fall. Why would they put pipes so far from the wall? The men could not have been thinking.Dr Klein tried to speak with Julio, your worker, as he was doing the work in an unacceptable manner, but Julio said he did not understand English. The workers were not supervised for the first week of the job and did what they pleased and so the work was carelessly done, our property not respected and our safety disregarded.The sump pump pipe going through the crawl space was bowed and had to be corrected, as well, after Shawn also had to remove the second step and re-pitch it because no one, not Shawn or you, supervised your workers until this job was a clear mess. After you saw the ugly lopsided walkway piece that Diego had put in, both you and Shawn commented the sump pump cover and the pipe next to it clashes. The angles are not congruent and are put on crooked. It is still mismatched making it impossible for anyone but a muscle man to remove the cover if needed. This still needs to be corrected.I can?t believe you are saying that if left to do your work you would have done it. I doubt that the quality of that work would have been acceptable to any person living in Teaneck or any part of the metropolitan area or the world. You yourself had to come and stay here to manage the men because they did such a shoddy job. your supervising them made a big change. We much appreciated that you were there for those few days. We felt like we were in good hands. And it was such a nice experience to speak with you.We were and still are kind of shocked that the work was being done in such a manner. Shawn admitted that for the first three days he was not here to manage his men because he was working on his truck, and looking for more work. The men clearly took advantage or perhaps it would have been done that way if he were here. I have to wonder if that is the way these men work on most jobs? Shawn does this work all the time. Why did he not take the care at the beginning of the job? The only reason things have to be done over is because of the lack of that care and perhaps the lack of know-how. I am hoping it is the former. The issue of charging my card without my authorization and against my direct instructions is very serious.

I live in a street where we have two retaining walls. We had to replace both of them. I used S. Mays Construction, LLC, who I found on Angie's List. They did a very very good job. They did it in a very short time, and the owner, Shaun, was very professional. He was very nice and all the people who worked for him did a terrific job. They finished the whole thing in 10 days. The system of interlocking blocks is new and much better looking. I was able to choose from several colors and I chose light brown.

Job was good none of the usual "contractor" problems.