Joe's Framing reviews

Bad news

I wasn't going to submit a review until I saw that there were over 200 inquiries about his business. Unfortunately, as much as we wanted to be happy with the work he did, we are not. Joe was to have moved an outside faucet and instead of using pipe, he used tubing. He fabricated and installed a wooden driveway fence and gate for my mother. He supplied all the materials and painted it to match the wood trim on the house. Within a few days of the gate being installed, it rained. The fence and gate warped, the paint bubbled and the gate cannot be closed. When confronted about this, he claimed that the paint was bad and was Mom's fault. He bought the paint, how could it be her fault? Our guess is that he used the cheapest quality paint instead of the better quality that we used on the house's trim. The wood was of inferior quality and had to be patched which contributed to the warping and bubbling when it rained. When he was fabricating the fence, he dumped all of the leftover wood into the green waste bin. When Mom saw what he'd done, she called him on it and in a condescending manner, he told her that since wood came from trees, that was perfectly OK. No, it's not. Lumber is considered construction material and is not allowed in the green waste. The question is: Is this how he performs all his work or did he do this because he thought he could get away with shoddy construction because he was working for an 86 year old woman? Either way, it's bad. I would stay away from this man. We are in the process of contacting him for a reasonable reimbursement and if that doesn't happen, we will going to small claims court.