On 09.05. Ronald Kraft II of Durakraft construction sent us a quote replace our roof and paint our home. The original quote was for $5,608. Once we received the quote, we informed him that it was way too high and that we would look for estimates elsewhere. Ron continued to call my husband to see what he could do to get the job and eventually told him that he would do the entire job for $2000 (which we have on a voicemail recording) On 09.21. we sent the adjusted (noting the new agreed upon price of $2000), signed contract to Ron by fax and sent him the deposit that we had agreed upon of $780 to start the work. I have an email from Ron stating that this was the deposit required and that the remaining balance would be due within 7 days of completion. Ron then started work. He then told us that after looking at the roof some more and in the attic, the job was going to cost an additional $1246. I informed him that we wanted to look into things further and not to do any additional work till after I got back to him. We then had the home inspected and found out that the additional work was not necessary - there was no mold or water damage in the attic as Ron had told us. During the inspection, a contractor was out working on the roof and told us as he was working on installing the new roof that Ron specifically told him not to install any ice shield when our contract from Ron outlined that 6' of ice shield would be installed. Once I was informed of the actual condition of the attic, I told Ron that I wanted the work completed as originally contracted. I also wanted a schedule of the work to be performed so that we could have an inspector verify that everything was being completed correctly. He then decided to back out of the job and our contract. I also became aware that Ron took it upon himself to cut down bushes and trees in our yard with out our permission. He also moved/destroyed other areas of the landscape and left the debris from the roof and lawn throughout the yard.
Lastly, he was given the code to our lock box so that he could enter the home to inspect the attic and that was it. We later found out that he was entering our home without our permission to use our bathroom, etc. And dirtying up the place.
I tried numerous times to work with Ron through the issues that came up, but once we brought in some accountability for the work he was doing, he bailed! I'm sure he thought we would be an easy target to take advantage of being that we live out of state... Lucky we checked up on him!
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