A Malek Contracting, LLC

Angies list recommended tthis contractor for exterior painting.The comoany did not have the decency to reply back with a response eventhough we had a convesation on the phone .remitted pics of the job with a follow up text.No reply..Could you imaging if he had your money and there was an issue?

Work done lasting several years. Workmen present each day until end of job. They were courteous and cleaned up after themselves each day. Any issues I was able to call Mr. Malek and we were able to resolve.

It went well. He was able to restore the original designs which were very important to me.

Excellent, A Malek did excellent job removing layers of paint, repointing and restoring my front facade. My house went from the worst to the best in a series of similar Queen Anne brownstones on my block. I was happy to know that NYC Landmark knows the company well which helped to expedite getting a Landmark permit. I would highly recommend this company.

Malek's workmanship is top-notch and reasonably priced. The owner Abdul, is a very decent man who facilitates your needs.

I have worked with Malek for 20 years. My first project was in 1999. I purchased a house in 1997 covered in permastone. The project entailed removing the permastone and replace it with brownstone this included the stairs. The job also included repairing the cornice and removal of painted on the blue slate. The job was completed on time and it still looks beautiful. I also has small children at the time so they always clean-up after themselves everyday. In 2004 I purchase a build, Malek started work on it in 2006. They added structural beams, redid the sidewalk (blue slate) repointed front of building and added new store front windows. In 2018 Malek work on building again. Repointing the whole building, put on a new roof, replaced the cornice and added brownstone. The building is complete and won The Lucy Moses Award in 2019. I would recommend Malek highly

Excellent. communicative, clean, and responsive. He has a very strong reputation in Brooklyn, specifically in the historic area of Brooklyn. The work went really really well.

I’ve hired A. Malek for many jobs at multiple buildings over the years. The price is fair, work is outstanding and the team is friendly, responsive and communicative. After many years in the business, they are trusted and well respected professionals.

The man came to see the work and when I asked a question he walked away saying, "Call somebody else"!

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But they botched the stoop by not removing enough of the original material. As a result the new brownstone cement was not thick enough and flaked off within a year or so. Malek blamed this on my having used salt to melt ice, But every other stoop on my block has been salted repeatedly and none of them are as ugly as mine. He refused to fix it. Be sure to get a warranty, and watch out for the "salt" gambit. I dont recall having salted the steps.

Malek was recommended by a neighbor who had the entire facade of his large brownstone restored a number of years prior. My neighbor was pleased with the quality of the work and the price, which he considered reasonable given the size of the job. I don't know what his project cost. This was a very positive experience, from start to finish. The company owner was very professional, responsive, and provided me with a detailed description of the work in the contract we both signed. I don't remember how long the job took, but I think it was about 8 days. The two men who did the work were good - steady, careful, and cleaned up. At first, I didn't think I needed the concrete ceiling under the stoop taken down and restored. The ceiling had a little 'give' in it: he knew that wasn't good but I couldn't believe it needed to done after just 10 years, It turned out that the previous work I had done had effectively dropped the ceiling about 4 inches, and now that additional headroom is restored, which is great. He was 100% right. I was adamant about not going over the 10K, so I gave him an argument about this part of the job. As I remember, this piece was going to put it over 10K, but he agreed to not charge me any more for the ceiling. As it turns out, I chose to have one of the two walls under the stoop left with the exposed brick, instead of re-concreting it (which I think represents more work than leaving the brick), so his willingness to compromise on the ceiling was a little rewarded. Also, I asked for some extra pointing around the basement windows, which he didn't ask additional for. The men matched the color of the new mortar to the old very well. There is a small spot on the facade that they pointed last where the mortar is way to dark and is noticeable, but it's not a big deal. The brownstone ledge looks really nice. Late in the job I asked if the concrete squares could be done in a brownstone color instead of gray. He balked at this for some reason. He did agree to mix the concrete a little darker, but I don't see much of a difference. Again, not a big deal. I recommend Malek and will definitely contract with him in the future. Besides masonry, I believe he does many other types of work, including exterior painting.

Malek Contracting gave us a very affordable and prompt quote for small repairs on the exterior of our brownstone. Once we hired them, they completed the job within 2 weeks and it was very easy to work with them.

We had a very good experience with A Malek redoing the front of our house about 1998 and more repairs a few years ago so we called him to do the back of the house. He was on time for estimate (always), on time for work (always). On the back wall of the house, the crew had to chip off the old coating on the brick back wall, do some repointing of the brick, and then resurface with new waterproof material. We also had them demolish a cement stoop which we were going to replace later in the summer with patio etc. and to repair the chipping cement around the exterior basement door and repaint the door. We were not 100% satisfied with his work this time. They did not take off all of the old coating as we had expected, and the new coating was different than requested, we had asked for coating like a neighbors which we pointed to, but it was an entirely different material which is not as smooth and finished looking as the other. The color was much brighter, which we had him correct, though still more bright than our choice. The texture of the old material which was not scraped off, still shows through. The cement work around the basement door is cracking again. The crew cleaned their paint brushes on our fence post, the color is still there. The demolition of the cement stoop was done, and that was quite a bit more work than expected. However they did not advise us that we needed more work done once it was demolished, and so we have sustained flooding in the basement and are now trying to find someone to deal with that. This particular job is in CONTRAST to the two other times we have used them. They had done an excellent job on the front of the house. The brownstone work is superb, the brick cleaning and repointing good, the paint they used on the metal is still holding up since 1998 or so, in contrast to other houses on the block which are peeling. Again the best was the brownstone work, it has held up well and their detailing is some of the best, the work looks like an artisan did it, much better quality than others near by. Their price to do the whole front originally, paint stripping, scoring stone, repointing brick, rebuilding brownstone and stairs, stripping and painting bay, was $8000 which was a good bid at that time as it took them up to two weeks to strip it, repoint, rebuild..paint. Conclusion: DO NOT HESITATE to use Malek for your brownstone and detail work. He is top quality and has done other houses on our block with similar comments from my neighbors. But for more mundane work, you might find someone else to do a more satisfactory job.

The company called back and an appointment was scheduled. No one showed up. After the second scheduled appointment and no show, it was agreeed upon that someone from the company would come and look at the stoop and front yard of the house and call me with an estimate. After a week I called again and I was told that not only that there wasn't an extimate, no one had came to look at the job. This company is the pits and I would not call them again. If the company can not make a simple appointment I sure would not trust them to perform any work.

We used them a number of years ago. The Historic Society had recommended him along with some others. We live in a historic district and had to be mindful of that when getting work done. They did a nice job. It is sometimes hard to get a callback, but once he commits to the work, he is fine. He comes and gets in and out. He does a fine job. They were the most reasonably priced. They did good work and got everything done. It is tricky to pin them down but once they commit, they will come. They have the okay from the Historic Society to do work in this area.

Our stoop is made of brownstone and had been leaking for years into the "room under the stairs" making it wet and moldy and generally disgusting. Time had come to fix it. I called Malek because I had seen his work over the years in a few different neighborhoods and it was always impressive. Malek came out to scout the job himself and discuss the options with us. He was able to fit the job into the his schedule within a week or two. I felt his price was very fair for the work and for his very skilled experience. Because the job was on the front of the building it was very important to me that I felt confident in his skill. Like I said, I had seen other jobs he'd done around the city, plus he'd done work for the landmarks commission, so my confidence was high. He did not disappoint. His work was excellent. It exceeded my expectations. They matched the color PERFECTLY! The pointing material blends in perfectly with the existing color of the stoop which is a combination of brownstone and some areas which still have old brown paint on the brownstone. The pointing material was applied beautifully and crisply. It is not sloppy. The attention to aesthetic detail was terrific and I greatly appreciated that. I was at work when they did the job, so I wasn't there when the crew was there. Because it was an exterior job the crew was able to work without us being home. There was a downside to this however. They couldn't get into the house to use the bathroom. Later that week when I went to put the trash and the recycles onto the sidewalk for pickup I discovered a nasty surprise which seemed to most definitely be urine in re-used Snapple bottles and plastic milk jugs. I wasn't there, so I am not sure, but I guess the crew opted to not walk a block to the pizza shop to take a pee, but used bottles from our recycle bin. That was really nasty and really unprofessional. Granted, it was practical --- and it would have been fine if they had taken the bottles with them rather than leave them in my recycles bin. I typically need to sort through the recycles bin because some items are mistakenly placed in the bin by the tenants, so yeah, it was gross to find the pee filled bottles.

The came 2 days after we called, completed the work in one day, were neat not messy, nice job. All leaks stopped.

They were very polite. The crew showed up everyday until they completed the job.

THE EXPERIENCE WAS GOOD. THEY WORKED EFFECTIVELY AND QUICKLY TO FIX THE LEAK. THEY DID NOT LEAVE A MESS TO BE CLEANED UP OR REMOVED FROM THE YARD. THEY ARE A VERY PROFESSIONAL COMPANY WITH GREAT EMPLOYEES.