Xtreme Home Remodeling

I hired Xtremehome remodeling to remodel a bathroom and bedroom. They needed everything from new sheet rock to electrical to new bathtub sinks and toilet.

Mr. Benedict quoted me a price of $7000 total and said that the work would take a week and he could start right away and dedicated his time to the job until it was finished.

Things went ok for a couple of days. I had given Mr. Benedict several thousand dollars by that point as well as purchasing materials on my credit cards. In the first week, they totally just did not show up one day. No call, email, text, no nothing. When I waited until evening to be sure I was not going to hear from him, I confronted him and told him while it was unexceptionable to not even bother to call me, he was apologetic. I let it go and figured that was that.

Going into week TWO (of our one week job) there were two more full days where no one showed up. Not the owner Mr. Benedict, nor any kind of crew. So into two weeks, the job was maybe half done, not including the weekends (which were taken off) there were three full days of just no shows.

I was regretting hiring these folks already, but going into week THREE, there was again, what do you know, a no show. I had been told the day before that they would be here bright and early and will continue to work till the job was finished. By this time I was sure hoping that was true. The job had gone from the $7,000 to almost $10,000 that I had paid him for his "upgrades". It seems everything to this company is an upgrade - maybe even showing up would be one..not sure about that.

That 4th day he was a no show pushed me beyond merely being upset. I had gone in and really closely inspected the work that day, and it was shocking it was so subpar. Every tape in all of the new sheet rock was seriously visible, areas of the portions of crown molding had serious gaps in the multiple pieces that they used showing at least a quarter inch difference where the pieces join others - the poor fit was simply filled with putty to make to look less bad. The electrical - the wiring was supposed to be replaced where it was accessible (aluminum to copper) was to hard to remove but new plastic boxes to code as well as an aluminum to copper adapter should have been used - I sure paid for the boxes and new outlets and such - none of that was done at all. In fact, the electrical outlets and switches were all removed leaving only wiring, and the new sheet rock was installed making it impossible to replace the old metal boxes without tearing out the just put in wall board.

That same day, around 2:30 in the afternoon, Mr. Benedict (don) called and told me they were on there way and they hoped i didnt mind them working late. As I started to say yes I do mind, I was hung up on. I am disabled with severe heart failure, copd and a left leg amputated above the knee. In addition I have a 2 year old that lives here - working late - without a plan was not going to happen. When they finally showed up around 3:15 or so, I lit into them. I brought Don inside where I proceeded to show him every single thing that was poor quality at best. I told him at that point to finish the bathroom, finish the electrical, get the refuse off of my front curb and I would not give him another penny for anything. His response was to turn and walk out. That was the last I heard from him.

He kept my money, he kept materials I had paid for, he left my electrical in a dangerous state, and when I told him I wanted to be reimbursed for half of the money I had paid him (he already had almost 10K from me - and wanted more) and wanted the materials that I already had paid for and he kept. his response was to ask me if I was a woman or a man. I take it from that response that to be a man would be to walk away and l