BOND CONSTRUCTION

Let me preface this by saying we hired Mark in January 2018 for a bathroom remodel and that came out beautifully. Please see my review from a January where he stated it was a pleasure working with us. We asked if he had time to do more work upstairs. He said he could start at the end of February. Then it was the beginning of March, then the end of March then April. Then not until he got back from his 4 moth vacation in Canada. Since I’ve seen other reviews of work he completed in June I know he was home and working. He said the beginning of October then October 11 then October 16 it was finally started. It was a nightmare from the beginning. He cut ALL OF THE WOOD for the floor and the doorways INSIDE the house. We had sawdust 1/2 thick everywhere. Everything had to be commercially cleaned and all of our clothing laundered or dry cleaned. He fought with us every time we mentioned something didn’t look right. I heard water running in the bathtub and sneaked upstairs to find His assistant Dave washing out paintbrushes in my new bathtub. Green paint everywhere. Mark denied it happened even though I was standing right behind him watching him do it. .Then he painted over satin finish wainscot paneling. Of course no prep work was done and the paint wiped right off. We thought he would remove the panelling and put up new drywall. Of course He blamed us and said in the planning stage we should have made clearer what we wanted. Absolutely ridiculous. As a licensed contractor, he should have known how best to get the desired look. He converted our 2 back bedrooms into his workspaces AFTER the new hardwood flooring was installed (See picture below). What a horrible mess he made in those rooms. He picked up the wrong wood and asked if he could have my credit card to go back and get the right stuff. I gave it to him. You can see on the picture of the receipt below, he took it upon himself to buy a utility knife ON MY CREDIT CARD without my permission and never told me. I didn’t look at the receipt until the work was done because I trusted him. The wood he picked up the 2nd time was $400 more than what we had picked out. He bought too many cases and 2 had to be returned. Then we asked him 3 times to please return the excess wood so we could get a refund ($180 ) It was like talking to the wall. We finally did it ourselves. He fought with us every step of the way. The wood flooring was done by a subcontractor From a company called Eagle. Can’t seem to find them anywhere in the phone book. There are large spaces between the planks and the floor is uneven and creaks everywhere when you walk on it. Below are pictures of the shoddy work we received for a total of $12,900. To have everything redone properly will be of considerable cost to us. Beware. Mark Bond is a charmer. He draws you in then wipes out your bank account. He hasn’t offered to fix anything so it will be our decision who next to hire so our house can look beautiful instead of like a slum.