Jonathan J Berghold Painting

WARNING!! DO NOT HIRE THIS MAN!!! Jonathan J. Berghold/Platinum Kitchens is a player a THEIF a manipulator and a well rehearsed LIAR. He will show up promptly for an estimate and the down payment. He will tell you what you want to hear about your cabinets. He will promise you it will take a week to refinish your kitchen cabinets and nothing could be further than the truth. He will NOT SHOW UP when he indicates!! He will tell you excuse after excuse about the progress of your cabinets in his workshop ( my husband needed to visit him several times to check his work only to discover our cabinets where NOT sanded and ready to go the next day) His work quality was quite poor (cabinets were not properly cleaned , drip marks when he did paint, he sanded against the grain).Doors that were sanded were poorly or incompletely sanded. The workers he sent over spent more times on their phones than out cabinets or showed up with only a roll of tape and needed to leave for several hours to find a sander. Only 25 hours of work was completed within a 3 week time period. He continuously left us waiting for him to arrive at our house despite his many txts saying he was coming over to work that day. He disappeared for a week. We waited too long to fire him and gave him too many chances. My husband needed to retrieve the cabinet doors and drawers from his workshop after we figured out he wasn’t really going to finish our job. Upon retrieving the doors we discovered several doors somehow DISAPPEARED. Only when I threatened to file a police report did our missing doors reappear. My disable husband put in many hours cleaning, sanding and painting to cover our financial loss of $1500. We now need to find a new contractor to complete the job while we live in chaotic non-usable kitchen for the next month.

I am in a ten month nightmare. Do not hire Jonathan (jjb painting, Jonathan Berghold Cabinet Refinishing, etc as he has a multitude of 'company names') He finally agreed to refund me, and yet I have not seen a dime.

BEWARE!!!! I contracted Jonathan to refinish my kitchen cabinets, do some small tile work - backs plash and repaint the kitchen. He was very responsive in the beginning and was at my location early for an initial meeting. We agreed on a price and he took my deposit in the form of a check. He took that check directly to his bank and cashed it immediately. Over the holiday weekend, I had second thoughts about hiring him. I just had a bad feeling. When I was able to go back to my bank, I realized he cashed my check the same day! I called the cabinet company that he claimed to order doors from. They never heard from him. Jonathan has never answered the phone. Every conversation we have had has been through Facebook messenger! At least I have every broken promise and excuse documented. He finally agreed to reimburse my money. This all started at the end of May 2018 and I have only collected $1,188 out of $2,500 as of 8/14/18. I have threatened legal action which doesn't seem to phase him. I did file a report with the attorney general, but I don't know what that does! BEWARE!!!

DO NOT USE THIS CONTRACTOR! You may see good reviews but these are dates in 2016, when apparently there were other workers in the business that did quality work but are no longer there. Look at recent reviews. I am not alone in the bad experience associated with this business. I hired this contractor in Nov 2017 to paint my kitchen cabinets. You feel like you are getting a good deal because he says he will throw in some other work for free. DO NOT BE FOOLED. This guy is shady, he takes your 50% deposit which is cashed immediately and then doesn’t deliver what is promised. Getting my cabinets done was frustrating. He did not come when he said and he certainly didn’t deliver on getting the project done in 5 consecutive days as per the contract. He started on Nov 29 and finished Dec 7th, with much pressure on my end to get it completed. When discussing the project, he touted that he uses this product from Italy and it is virtually indestructible. After finally getting my cabinets painted, they started chipping within a month. I also noticed the coverage of paint on the sides of cabinet doors was sparse in some areas. I contacted the painter and told him it was chipping and asked for touch up paint. At this point I felt defeated like there was nothing I else could do. As expected it took around 3 weeks to actually get paint from him. Excuse after excuse. I had to go pick it up from his porch to finally get it. As the paint continued to chip I got more concerned. I contacted him and said they needed to be redone. He said he would come out to look at cabinets but that never happened. He then proceeded to say the paint from Sherwin Williams (not Italy) must have been tainted. Then he said he would just redo the cabinets and gave a date in April. Silly me I actually thought it might get then repainted but no that did not happened. Finally I asked for my money back in May. Then a new set of meaningless promises took place. My patience has run out, now I am pursing every possible recourse.

Would never recommend. I looked on several places he is listed . They had good ratings. They can’t be true. A nightmare experience!

Terrible ..very sloppy poor work .. a six week nightmare ..

I chose them because of their reviews however I was not given the same treatment. Apparently the two other people he worked with quit and they produced the great results reviews, so when he came to my house it was not the same quality because it is essentially not the same business because the real talent left. Email me at toyarj@gmail.com if you want proof in pictures. The lines they painted were not straight, no caulking so they painted right ov er cracks and holes, paint all over my new hardware light fixtures and switches, inside of closets not painted white but just primed white, door cabinets put on crooked and in the wrong spots. Wrong paint used in bathroom so the walls looked horrible after taking hot showers. The walls will mildew if not repainted properly bc they did not use a mold resistant semi gloss. They used flat paint. Doors and trim painted with flat white instead of semi gloss. I had to make them re do it. Color paint on my ceiling bc they can't paint straight. Color Paint on my wood trim that they never fixed. Lied so many times about how long it would take to finish work. Left trash all over my floor. They Lost screws to my outlet covers. Paint drips dried on wood trim and kitchen cabinet doors. The old blue color shows thru in bathroom bc they didn't prime first. And only used one coat of paint. They washed their paint rags out in my brand new bathroom sink. Be careful bc they delete all ad reviews on Facebook and houzz