Summary: Wasted two weeks of our time and I took time off work when he never intended on doing the job in the first place. We made arrangements to pour a 10x10 concrete pad for a hot tub. We agreed on a price and even though he wasn't the cheapest I decided to go with him since he supposedly does all the pads for Atlantic Whirlpools. I gave him my work number, my home number, and my mobile and we set an appt to have the pad poured on a Friday at 8:15am. At 9:30 I was still waiting so I called his mobile and got VM, left a VM asking nicely to be called back. Called back at 10am since I hadn't heard anything and got him on the phone. He said he left me a VM saying he had to finish up another job and couldn't be there in the morning. He left it at my WORK at 7pm, even though I'd repeatedly mentioned that was my work number AND he had BOTH my mobile and home numbers. He then told me he would be done around 1pm and could do it then so I told him I would go to work and for him to call me when he was leaving so I could meet him. BY 2:15 I hadn't heard anything so I called and got VM. Called again at 2:30 and 2:45 and got VM. Finally my wife got in touch with him at 3pm and told him she was not happy. (At no point did I or my wife curse, insult, or get nasty over the phone.) He told her to find someone else to do it and that it wasn't worth his time. I reached him shortly after that not knowing my wife had spoken to him and he immediately told me to find someone else. When I asked why he said because my wife got upset with him. Well I didn't buy that and after much wrangling got him to admit that he took another job making more money and never intended to do ours in the first place. He also said he hadn't done a job that small in two years and it wasn't worth it. So the guy that claims he does all the work for Atlantic Whirlpools hasn't poured a pad in two years??? Bottom line, completely untrustworthy and I wouldn't do business with him at any cost.
Cons: Lied to us, would not return calls, took a job he had no intention of doing, wasted two weeks of our time. When I took time off work he pulled a no show.
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