Joe's Home Improvement

I am writing this to prevent another trusting home owner like myself from being taken advantage of. Do Not Use This Company.His work is slip shod and he constantly takes short cuts I Hired him to install new Vinyl siding, all new aluminum trim, stucco work, and a sidewalk. So far it has cost me several thousand dollars to finish the work he failed to do and to repair a lot of the work he did. Fortunately, he stalled the stucco and sidewalk work installation until it was 3 months overdue. At which point I asked for my deposit money back. He returned all but $100.00. He has promised " I will be back next week to return your money and finish and repair the work" I heard this song a minimum of 36 times in person and on the phone.. Next week never comes. As it looks now I will also need to replace all of the window trim because he never cut & fitted the aluminum properly and was trying to fill half to one inch gaps with caulking. I was also told it was not the greatest grade of aluminum either. When I questioned him about the caulking every week. he stopped doing it altogether. Leaving about 95% of the trim not sealed. Every sill has collapsed and pulled away from the wall causing leaks behind the siding. I have had to repair loose siding and several have slipped. I have also been told the so called insulation he put behind the siding is a useless waste of money unless the whole house was wrapped in it first and all the seems sealed. He just shoved small pieces behind the panels. Every time I take a close look at the work I find more problems.

So far it has cost me several thousand dollars to finish the work he failed to do and to repair a lot of the work he attempted to do.. He said "I'll be back next week with the money, buy some concrete and I'll finish the stucco work, all the caulking, and anything else you found wrong. Problem is next week never comes.It is now April 2016 and he has never come back nor returned my money. He has been promising to come back since February 2013 .Description of some of some of the problemsHe took down perfectly good rain down spouts & elbows and crushed them, When I asked when he was going to put them back up, he said I'll give you an estimate. I told him I was not going to pay him for damage he actually caused. He then tried to straighten out the pipes and elbows. Many of the elbows were installed backwards and of course leaked in torrents. It also looked like crap with the new siding.I paid him extra to replace 4 gutters and install gutter screens on all of the gutters. All of them leaked and only one gutter had a screen which was just laying in the gutter. When he was nearly finished two other main gutters were leaking profusely and doing damage around the house. His standard answer was "I never touched them" This happened with several other things. Verizon had to come back three times to my house when he removed the fiber optic control panel and didn't know how to put it back, along with trying to bend the fiber cable and breaking it. I also had to replace a FIOS cable going upstairs to a TV set. Standard answer “I never touched it”I finally had to get another contractor to replace all the gutters and downspouts.He installed very large oversized windows on my porch that started leaking inside the house. He attempted to install sheet rock around the new window frames and openings. None of the pieces lined up evenly with each other or the window frames. Most were a half inch off or more. I wound up ripping out the sheet rock and replacing it with wainscot paneling, to hide the unevenness of the window installations. He also attempted to sand the sheet rock down twice and only made it worse Forget about getting him to clean up after he does any kind of work. I gave up and I just finally removed all of the garbage, debris, and old lumber he brought onto the job site but never removedHe never cut & fitted the aluminum properly and was trying to fill half to one inch gaps with caulking. I was also told it was not the greatest grade of aluminum either. When I questioned him about the caulking every week, he stopped caulking altogether. Leaving about 95% of the trim not sealed. Every window sill has collapsed and pulled away from the wall causing leaks behind the siding. I have had to repair loose siding. I have also been told the so called insulation he put behind the siding is a useless waste of money unless the whole house was wrapped in it first and all the seams sealed. He just shoved small pieces behind the panels. I was also told that there should be no open holes in the siding any pipes cable, railings etc passing through the siding, should have been boxed in with kits.I am now having trouble with my electric meter installation which was directly under one of the rain gutters that he left leaking until I had it replaced. PSE&G believe the entire box is rotted out and needs to be replaced.I have found that he has several addresses and because of this, the Better Business Bureau does not print his complaints. They have listed him as assumed to be out of business because they can not contact him.Addendum: October 13th 2016,Joe told me multiple times he would be “back next week repair everything you found and return your 100 dollars.I had multiple leaks inside my enclosed front porch.I finally ha...