Paramount Roofing and Remodeling

Run - Do Not Walk Away...

I contracted with this company owned by Mike Carloni- to add an in-law onto my son's house in Whitman. Initially during negotiations he appeared to be a wonderful businessman who promised daily communication. As soon as the contract was signed and a big deposit given; that all changed. A job that was promised to take, at the longest, 8 weeks; turned into a year. He would promise to show up and not be there, (unless he was due $$$). sometimes for weeks Speaking of dollars; the contract was broken into payments. My understanding was that these payments were due at the completion of steps...his argument was that these were "progress payments" and were due even though steps weren't completed as I thought were indicated in contract..in the process of digging my foundation he ruined the neighbor's yard which he promised to fix, promised to put up a barrier fence between yards...never done...he promised to work with my architect which was never done and caused me an additional $7000 because he made a huge error, raising a floor over a foot which resulted in the need to add on an additional dormer along with giving me 18 stairs to my top floor:(..The list goes on and on; built a window well incorrectly without drainage that caused a family of frogs to move in (I had to contact the town building inspector to get this fixed). Put in a different brand of windows than were contracted for; I had to receive a credit on my account for these; always blamed his vendors for things that weren't on site on time; but when I checked with these vendors he had actually never even spoken to them or ordered these pieces...example: patio sliding door; the vendor said he had never ordered this until the time it finally came in. The list goes on and on and on. The final straw was when he hired the landscaper to finally fix the neighbor's yard as well as bring in back fill and hydroseed the area of my son's lawn that was destroyed during construction; when the bill came he said he wasn't responsible for this. I told him he had hired the landscaper; I didn't...the result was that he walked off the job; leaving me the landscaper's bill to pay. I was fortunate enough to have gotten the occupancy permit but there is a lengthy list of things on the punch list that I now have to hire someone to fix including a dormer window that is not set correctly; digs on the hardwood floor that were made by his guys; my stairs are in horrible repair; needing to be totally refinished as some have a high gloss poly on them and some have a satin finish!!!! Please, please, please do NOT even consider using this contractor.