Incomplete work and delayed work
In June 2018 i signed a detailed contract with Babak going over the scope of my project a number of times and in detail. The work was to build out a separate entrance and put in some new windows for my basement.
Babak demonstrated some good knowledge and claimed to be an engineer so i took a chance with him and signed with him in mid June 2018. i also managed my risk by paying him in accordance to work being completed.
Initially the work was going well but then he started to take other jobs and the work slowed. ultimately he got overloaded and the work slowed significantly in july and august. i believe he was atleast 2 months later than he should have been as my separate entrance and windows were only completed by end of September. this caused significant delay with my other contractors doing the inside of the basement.
additionally he did not respect the contract and specifically did not hire an electrician to complete the electrical work related to the heating cables in the staircase. we discussed this numerous times and he insisted he would do this and i even clearly wrote this into the contract. i was quite disappointed he didn't do this at the end and ultimately left me with this problem to resolve.
another thing that i had to get involved with was he was going to place the metal lintel above my door backwards which would allowed water to potentially come into the house. had i not done my own research and insisted what he was going to do was incorrect he would have left me with this problem also. luckily i had an inspector involved to ensure he did this work correctly.
While Babak comes across intelligent and customer service oriented, his actions were often to cut corners and find short cuts. unfortunately i cannot recommend him.
- Approximate cost of services:
- $15,000.00
- Company Response
hi mr faruk
thank you for your review! finally you respond us after lots of email calls text and request for meeting about these problems you mentioned here !I am really sorry to see in 2019 yet ! there is some major person that acts like kids and can be this much unhonest and unfair in society and trying to reflect totally opposite facts
when I accepted to do your job you already had discounted with bunch of contractors and I had to realize there should be some problems with this person
otherwise anyway someone has to stay and finish his job. even you had problem with you existing basement finisher and you were bringing complaints fram him to me about problems he brought for you.I accepted to finish uncompleted and uncorrected jobs from previous contractors but if i knew you would pay me by delay and you would ask me many different extra
task which wasn't included in contract i really wouldn't start your project.i passed many inspection processes and steps as you know and for sur you wouldn't mention here but to letting you know I have all those pictures and documents with me yet and I am ready to submit it anywhere you would like! even about that lintel you mentioned here I personally insisted to installing it correctly.
if there is delay on your project half is your falf.
why do you lieing about payment terms?? even when you didn't upgraded your third deposit we kept to working until I really needed to pay electrician to finish wire job and I really didn't had that much found.
many of financial problem I am dealing nowadays is coming from you because I spend it in you job and you didn't pay me!some other delay is because of inspection process which we needed to stop work until pass inspection but
fortunately you can't lie about that anymore becouse my documents is complete about all those visits.the other issue is about whether during your job you wouldn't mention here for sure how much rain we had at that time and I have all schadule about it.
at the end please pay your balance money what we did for you about extra job otherwise I will follow up with my legal department to receive it!
I also highly recommend to all my colleagues in all different fields of renovation and construction don't work any kind of small or big project with this person "FARUK PATEL" or people like him .becuse they are just really trying to take advantage from other people with no on time payments and no honesty!