Anonymous
11-09-2004, 01:03 PM
We had a person to remodel our kitchen this year. I will not say his name or business. But after the job was done it was awful.
We put in a new sink, new floors, and counter tops. We bought the items so as to help cut down on cost. Because a contractor buying it is going to charge you more because he had to go get it.
We chose that new inlaid wood flooring for the kitchen because it is so easy to keep clean and has none of the smell and allergies you get from carpet or the glue. And carpet holds all the smells in a house.
We had the counter tops cut at Lowes in Columbia. They cut them right. Our contractor placed the countertop wrong. Our sink is not placed correctly under the windows. He put the countertop farther towards the front than it was suppose to be.
We have to take the drop- in stove out to get our silverware drawer out. Which is a job in itself. Because the floor now is higher than the stove because we had linoleum before. The floor being higher is not his fault. But the placement of the counter was irresponsible.
And if that was not enough the wood floor has dips in it. He was suppose to level out the floor. And around the doors and the corners of the cabinets are awful. It looks as if a child did the cutting. We had to fill in with small wood pieces and cover with wood putty( some call it plastic wood) and then try to stain it the color of the floor. And as most people that has ever stained anything knows it is almost impossible to stain plastic wood so we had to try and find paint to match the wood grain in the floor. This person did an awful job.
But he is not getting back in my kitchen because at the time I did not know he uses men from jail as his help. And what should have taken half the time took him to long and our kitchen was not usable during that time.
We put in a new sink, new floors, and counter tops. We bought the items so as to help cut down on cost. Because a contractor buying it is going to charge you more because he had to go get it.
We chose that new inlaid wood flooring for the kitchen because it is so easy to keep clean and has none of the smell and allergies you get from carpet or the glue. And carpet holds all the smells in a house.
We had the counter tops cut at Lowes in Columbia. They cut them right. Our contractor placed the countertop wrong. Our sink is not placed correctly under the windows. He put the countertop farther towards the front than it was suppose to be.
We have to take the drop- in stove out to get our silverware drawer out. Which is a job in itself. Because the floor now is higher than the stove because we had linoleum before. The floor being higher is not his fault. But the placement of the counter was irresponsible.
And if that was not enough the wood floor has dips in it. He was suppose to level out the floor. And around the doors and the corners of the cabinets are awful. It looks as if a child did the cutting. We had to fill in with small wood pieces and cover with wood putty( some call it plastic wood) and then try to stain it the color of the floor. And as most people that has ever stained anything knows it is almost impossible to stain plastic wood so we had to try and find paint to match the wood grain in the floor. This person did an awful job.
But he is not getting back in my kitchen because at the time I did not know he uses men from jail as his help. And what should have taken half the time took him to long and our kitchen was not usable during that time.