Larry Kachel
Clueless "contractor"... Fee for fleecing

LARRY KACHEL once worked for a reputable company (general contractors of single-family-housing). When the company closed the doors of the branch where he was employed, LARRY KACHEL went into business for himself as a home improvement contractor, believing that his six years BEHIND A DESK certainly qualified him to do the ACTUAL BUILDING of additions including the electrical wiring, plumbing, roofing, etcetera.

Being able to tell prospective clients of his past employment with said company (omitting the NATURE of his employment) helped LARRY KACHEL, and he was quickly able have a few folks sign on with him for various projects.

OBSERVANT CLIENTMark and Lisa wanted to up-date the wall sconces and a ceiling fan in their home. They contracted LARRY KACHEL for the installation of their newly purchased fixtures. After watching LARRY KACHEL struggle for two hours with the replacement of the ceiling fan, Mark decided that he had hired the wrong man for the job. He made an excuse to LARRY KACHEL that he had to take Lisa to a previously set appointment, and paid him for the work he had done. Mark and Lisa never had LARRY KACHEL return, and subsequently hired an electrician to complete the job.

OUTRAGED CLIENTWhen Elliot reviewed the bill that LARRY KACHEL submitted to him for payment, his jaw hit the floor. Itemized on the bill - ADDITIONAL LABORER $18.00/hour x 10 hours. Elliot had never seen a laborer on the job, and confronted LARRY KACHEL. Elliot learned that the additional laborer that LARRY KACHEL was trying to receive money for was LARRY KACHELS wife, who would stop by daily during her 45-minute lunch break, and chat with her husband while he was working. While Elliot agreed that he had witnessed LARRY KACHELS wife hand him a tool on occasion, he certainly did not consider the act to be billable labor. LARRY KACHEL agreed to remove the charge.

EXPLOITED CLIENTOne quite elderly client had LARRY KACHEL convert her cape cod (1 & floors) into a full two storied (2 floors) home. Upon completion of the project, LARRY KACHEL collected his payment, packed up his tools and moved onit was not long after that the problems began.

When it rained, all of the electric outlets on one wall stopped working. Winter came and the vinyl siding on the house started buckling in areas. Alice started to notice a musty smell, but could not locate the source.in an upstairs room, a small amount of water would trickle down inside of the window frame when rain was hitting that side of the house. While having the wax seal of the toilet re-placed water suddenly began shooting from the wall. Why were these things happening? LARRY KACHEL is clueless, that is why.

The electric outlets, buckling vinyl siding, and trickle of water... When LARRY KACHEL put the roof on the house, he did not add eaves. The roof ended flush with the exterior walls, thereby allowing the rain an entrance at the junction where the roof meets the wall. The water that ran straight down the concrete block walls not only was saturating them, but forming puddles between the walls and the vinyl siding as well. During the winter when the temperature dropped these puddles formed into ice, and this is what caused the vinyl siding to buckle. OVERHANGROOFING 101.

Where was the musty smell coming from? Although old houses often smell musty, the smell could have been from mold and mildew that no doubt was starting to grow from the excessive moisture permitted in to the house due to LARRY KACHELS poor construction. At the beginning of the project, LARRY KACHEL had come across five rolls of insulation that was lying in a friends barn. When LARRY KACHEL asked his friend about the insulation his friend explained that he had torn it out of his attic years ago, stored it here in the barn, and forgotten about it. LARRY KACHEL asked if he could have it and the friend said sure, but it may not be any good as the insulation had been soaked through from rain several times before finally making it to the barn. These five rolls were among the insulation that LARRY KACHEL used while insulating the crawl space above Alices bathroom. UCC 101

Alice asked her nephew to re-place a wax seal. The nephew turned off the water supply, disconnected the water supply line from the tank, and removed the toilet. While removing the old wax from the bottom of the toilet, water suddenly started shooting across the room. The nephew ran to the basement and turned off the main water valve. LARRY KACHEL had not used glue when connecting the supply line for the toilet tank to the main water supply line. The weight of the toilet was what had held the lines in place, once Alices nephew had removed the toilet, the lines separated. Plumbing 101

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Company: Larry Kachel
Country: USA
State: Pennsylvania
City: Mohnton-Reading-Denver-Lancaster
Address: 33 Westley Road

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