SAYLORS PAINTING

They gave me a very low bid for painting the trim on my house, and I guess that should have alerted me of potential for trouble. But in the end they paid themselves a somewhat decent wage around here: $15/hour. They came on the day they said they would come. They bought the paint, and they got the right kind. On the first day they went up ladders with paint brushes and buckets and started to paint the windows without removing the screens. I insisted that they remove the screens. Then I noticed that they were painting the windows shut. I insisted that they open the windows and paint the sills. Then I noticed that they were not cleaning or scraping the windows before painting. The windows had peeling paint and some areas, where wood needed, to be filled in before painting. I told them to clean and scrape the wood before painting. I gave them rags and cleaning stuff to clean the sills, and I did some of this myself. My partner showed them how to scrape the peeling paint off. But, each time they came to a new window, we had to do this all over again. It was as if they were refusing to open the windows and scrape the old paint off. Finally, I told them that I didn't understand why they were refusing to open the windows and scrape the old paint off. This was when they told me that I was already demanding too much of them by requiring them to remove the screens. In the end I sort of gave up and just paid them and made them go away.