My Reno started on 18th June.
Reno scope includes:
1) hacking of toilet and retiling, doing up a new toilet again
2) redoing 2 bedrooms including extending the floors to the balcony, varnishing the floor and doing all carpentry in the room.
Till 24/7, things done were
1) toilet only retiling, glass partition done with defects like 2 tiles crack, glass panel chipped at the corner (ask the contractor to come down to rectify, he says Reno not 100% no defects.)
2) toilet door fixed (before things like cabinet, toilet bowl, basin goes in), toilet bowl and rain shower were put in after he put the toilet door in
3) windows done with poor quality without checking which quality we wanted
4) floor varnishing done before painting works and wiring completed
5) all the defects were told by us, he did not come down and check at all, only send his workers down to do work.
Told him to stop everything after doing the toilet portion. Called him to ask him to rectify the problems, he said reno not 100% without defects. Ask us not to be so picky and pick on all these when payment is due. After asking the contractor to stop the works, one day he told the workers to come down to rectify problem (as we refuse final payment without rectification, he just send email saying will be coming down without any time given) without our approval and knowledge enter the house. Called him just to check if he came down to fix as no one knows and saw the workers but the contractor sounds like a gangster and say: the workers enter through the main gate, what’s wrong? What do you want now? Call the police?
Super terrible experience with the contractor. Glad we didn’t continue with his work. He quoted $10K for carpentry, found another carpenter charging only $6.2K and the quality is good! Thankful I didn’t proceed with the previous contractor as his workmanship is really bad!
