Nancy Reed
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Ohio
We hired a company to get rid of mold in our basement. We were originally told the job would take 3 days and now, 7 months, later, it has not been completed. The company is extremely unreliable. The guy we have been working with has been at our house 20+ different times and can't seem to complete the project. He is always late. Often times he will come and leave a few minutes later to go for supplies and return hours later, or not at all. Often times he doesn't show up in the first place. We rarely get phone calls when he is going to be late or not show up at all. This guy has told the owner that we are not making ourselves available to finish the job and that we are not returning phone calls. Believe me, that is a complete lie. We want this project completed more than anything right now. We have paid the majority of the funds but we still owe approximately $500. We are not going to pay that until the job is completed. How long do we have to give them to complete the job? We have verbally given them a time frame that we want it completed by and that has not been met. We want to just finish it ourselves and then not pay the balance. At what point can we do that? We are afraid that we will finish the job and not pay and then eventually they will want to be paid. We don't want to end up in small claims court but we want this project completed so that we can move on to other projects in our basement. Any advice?
We hired a company to get rid of mold in our basement. We were originally told the job would take 3 days and now, 7 months, later, it has not been completed. The company is extremely unreliable. The guy we have been working with has been at our house 20+ different times and can't seem to complete the project. He is always late. Often times he will come and leave a few minutes later to go for supplies and return hours later, or not at all. Often times he doesn't show up in the first place. We rarely get phone calls when he is going to be late or not show up at all. This guy has told the owner that we are not making ourselves available to finish the job and that we are not returning phone calls. Believe me, that is a complete lie. We want this project completed more than anything right now. We have paid the majority of the funds but we still owe approximately $500. We are not going to pay that until the job is completed. How long do we have to give them to complete the job? We have verbally given them a time frame that we want it completed by and that has not been met. We want to just finish it ourselves and then not pay the balance. At what point can we do that? We are afraid that we will finish the job and not pay and then eventually they will want to be paid. We don't want to end up in small claims court but we want this project completed so that we can move on to other projects in our basement. Any advice?