All, I am writing to thank everyone for the enormous outpouring of support and help we have received from this community (not these communities). You will never know this reading the publicly-available posts, but I am so deeply moved by the outpouring of really good help and advice and support that I¹ve received over the last two days . . . .
I have contractor recommendations. I have eco-friendly material recommendations. And I have lots of other very useful information and advice and wisdom. And I have Mr. Schopp¹s attention. Our situation is far from resolved, and I welcome any ongoing input or information or advice, but in the meantime I really feel like I need to say thank you to the lists, and to recognize what an amazing resource this community is. Kimm On 9/4/10 1:21 AM, "Kimm Tynan" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
