I urgently need a good recommendation for a porch contractor. Please do not recommend Greg Schopp. We signed a contract with Greg Schopp approximately a year ago. He was supposed to start in February. Then the snow happened, which I could understand, and he said May. Then he said ³When I finish the job down the street.² We haven¹t seen any progress on the job down the street for months. I¹m going to go have a chat with them this weekend. We paid this asshole a big upfront fee, he bought some materials. I¹m sick to my stomach, we refi¹d to pay this guy, our porch has deteriorated for a year. We are probably going to have to sue him and may pursue criminal charges. Seth Williams is an old friend of ours.
If you are a homeowner, do not do business with this man. He came to us highly recommended through the lists and others in the neighborhood. We hired him because he said he was going to do a historically-accurate replacement with high-quality materials (wood instead of fiberglass). From what we have heard he is a master craftsman. When we took exception to using mahogany and insisted on sustainably-forested woods, he went to enormous lengths to work with us on that. But he took our money and has largely disappeared, and our porch is getting more dangerous by the day after all this time. And I don¹t feel like I can cancel the contract and sue his ass until I have someone else waiting in the wings to step in. Please recommend someone good who will step in and take over this job quickly. I will impose on my husband to take unhistorical fiberglass and features (we won¹t take eco-unfriendly woods.) We tried to get this job done well. That didn¹t work. Now we need to get it done quickly. Please help. Kimm
