Bro's Painting

Description of Work: We used this painter previously to paint the outside of our home and it was done satisfactorily. Now we wanted painting of a 150 sq. ft. living room and 2 small bedrooms of the interior. This is our weekend home. Also to include sanding of walls, spackling of small nail holes and painting baseboards, trims and bedroom doors. We provided all the paint (Behr premium). All new doors, baseboards, wood flooring and windows were installed by our contractor 1 month prior. The floors were not covered and sand is in every crevice of the flooring. The painting job was shoddy and poor. White paint was smudged all over the beige and green painted walls. The radiators were spray painted dark brown and the beige walls now have dark brown spray paint. Globs of paint and fingerprints are all over the leather sofas, the floor trim, the natural brick fireplace and the ceiling fans. The door molding was cracked by a ladder and not repaired, just painted over. The bedroom door was painted and closed wet causing the paint to peel off along with a piece of the door. All brass door hinges were sanded over and painted, needing replacement. The owner (Ervin) brought his family over to paint and paint is now on the dishwasher, refrigerator and light fixture in the basement (all areas not being painted). Paint is embedded in the TV remote controller. They went into our utility draw in the kitchen and used our masking tape(unsure of why)--the paint lines were all done freehand and are not even. We arrived on a Saturday morning to inspect the work and noticed an air conditioner that was in our bedroom closet was propped up nicely in a living room window and left running since at least the day prior, all while other windows were opened with noone in the house. The window tract and lock for a bedroom window were broken from the window being jammed open. A touch activated lamp is no longer working and there is paint all over the touch pole. There is paint on the brand new blinds which were also bent. Ervin called us to tell us the painting was done and to come inspect. When we arrived we took pictures and called him. He says he inspected it himself and nothing is wrong with the work. He then came over and had no apologies...just saying that the areas can be cleaned. He also made it a point to tell us that we purchased cheap paint and cheap doors. We had given a down payment of $2000 and had a balance of $2500 and we all agreed that we would use the balance to have the damages fixed and the painting corrected by someone else. He then left the house and returned 3 minutes later to take his own pictures. He stated that he would bring his bookeeper by the next morning(sunday) to show the damage as proof of why the balance would not be paid. We notified him that we must be present when anyone else is coming to do work in the house. He did not come the next day as promised and instead stated that he spoke with a lawyer. On monday he called to say "what's the big idea" because we did not leave a key to our house. He says he is giving us 1 more chance or else he is taking us to court. We told him he is not welcome in our home and we had agreed that he would not be doing any further work on our home. We reminded him that we had damages done to our home and that we all agreed to use the balance to pay for repairs. He then hung up the phone. This was a job that he estimated would take 2 weeks. He took over 3 weeks to leave a job not completed (some parts of the walls were not painted), paint in areas where it is not supposed to be and damages we did not ask for. And probably a nice increase in our energy bill that we definitely did not ask for.