CORDOVA PLASTERING INC

We bought our house with an existing warranty held by Cordova Plastering, Inc. We called the owner, Mr. Gallagher on two occasions to have him come and inspect the stucco, as covered under the warranty. He finally contacted us about a year after we lived in the home and scheduled the inspection. He also informed us that our warranty contract was expiring soon. He performed the inspection and gave us an quote for repair work on wood trim around the windows that was not covered by the warranty. He also presented us with a bill for the renewal of our warranty. Mr. Gallagher sent one of his employees to perform the trim repair work. It took him one day and some of the work was done satisfactorily. However, on one window the employee found more rot than was visible to the eye. He dug out all of this rot, which consisted of most of the lower sill around the window. Mr. Gallagher was very quick to claim that the damage to the window was not covered under the warranty, even though the caulking around this window had come apart from the window and that very caulk failure had been covered by the warranty. We were told the window needed to be replaced, but the big gaping hole they had dug out was left for us to deal with. I paid 750.00 for the wood repair and 400.00 for the warranty renewal. A couple of months later, I was going through some paperwork and came across the warranty certificate the previous homeowner had left for us. The original warranty on the home did not expire until August 31, 2009. We contacted Mr. Gallagher for a refund for the 400.00 warranty renewal on three different occasions, the final being a threat to retain an attorney. He then mailed us a check for 225.00 for the warranty refund, claiming that 175.00 of that was to cover extra work on our wood trim repair. However, we were never told there was any extra work performed, nor did we authorize any extra work. We can not even find any extra repair work done on our home. In fact, we still have a big gaping hole under our window which we had to tape up with plastic ourselves. In addition to all of this, he acted very unprofessional while he was at our home. We had a large vinyl kiddie pool on our porch, with the brand name of "Intex". He made some crude comment about he thought it read "in-sex" and something else crude I don't recall. I would not recommend this contractor to anyone.