Happy Home Renovation

This contractor (Surinder Singh Kamboj; Business No. 280391475) lied about his skill level and is not a professional.

Hired him as a general contractor to do some work that included drywall, tiling, painting, installing exterior doors and windows, garbage removal, flooring, etc. I drew up a contract that detailed every single step of the project, in the correct order - making it as simple as possible & with payments being made on many small milestones so he would be paid often.

On his very first day, he decided to attempt installing a pre hung exterior door + security door. This is where it all went very wrong.

1) The door was installed crooked.

2) The door was installed incorrectly - he did not surface mount it.

3) He attempted a hack by carving a piece out of the brand new doorframe to try to fit a door knob (which did not work, no door knob is able to fit regardless)

4) He screwed in one way security screws when standard screws should have been used first, and functionality of the door ensured before putting in the one way screws. Now, the removal process will be difficult and the screws will be destroyed in the removal process... and they are not easily replaceable.

A simple 5 minute google search was enough research to let me know that he incorrectly installed the door... however the "professional" was unable to take those 5 minutes, and instead he hacked everything up.

When asked to fix the mistakes he made, he snuck out with his tools, never to be seen again. There needs to be a warning out there about the people who claim to be professionals, destroying people's homes.

PHOTOS: These are photos of the completed work... You can see that it was a pure hack job. Despite the hack, no doorknob would fit. Apparently this was acceptable as professional work done well, lol.