Modern Mills

I wish we had read all this review before letting him work for us. He doesn't know this trade and should not be allowed to practice. He has bad reviews everywhere.on google, bbb and we only found out when we had paid him 100%. He lies too and will sweet talk you into parting with your money.

We hired Dan to work on a new pantry for us, he was also supposed to install a new hood fan and relocate the microwave and create a cabinet for the microwave. He spent 7 weeks and never completed the job because we had to stop him for the sub-standard work he was doing for us. The pantry will be redone by another contractor within 1 week of signing the contract- where is the other contractor getting materials from that Dan said it's not available in stock after 7 weeks of taking 100% of his pay? The hood fan almost fell on me while cooking and we had to call on a new contractor to get the work done. For the hood fan he installed, he admitted that the fan was bowed. He blamed manufacturer's specification as the cause.

He took so much time off the work and always had an excuse of why he couldn't come. We got tired of his attitude to work and the fact that he doesn't know what he is doing. I doubt he has a general contractor certification because he has no idea what he is doing. We made a terrible mistake giving Dan the projects and a bigger mistake because we trusted him and gave him 100% of the money. Please do not use this company. He is not worth the hassle and we can categorically say that this is the worst contractor we have ever worked with.

He even lied on his reply to our review on google that he offered to pay us back our money. We asked him to after we saw the review and he blocked our number. He always has an excuse for everything, how can everyone be wrong about him?

Please don't fall into this trap.

Shoddy workmanship including vinyl plank floor not installed properly, door from kitchen to back entry steps not hung the right way, venting/duck work for kitchen and bathroom not up to code, dishwasher drain not installed properly, clothes rod in walk-in closet not attached to studs, work was often done by handymen instead of qualified tradesmen.

Stay Away !!

First the Good part : Daniel is always reachable, the plumber and the electrician was very good.

Now the bad part :

Signed a contract May 2nd to finish my basement for 19700$ incl gst on or before June 19th. During the initial estimate Daniel promised to "match everything like upstairs". The work started quickly, the first crew were unreliable, they would ask me to be home from 9am but will show up at 3pm almost regularly. I had asked Daniel to add soundproofing, he brought in pink fiberglass insulation. I told him this was not the right insulation to use, but Daniel assured me this was the soundproofing insulation. Then when the drywall was done, he accepted it was wrong insulation to use and we agreed to leave it as is and i will not be charged for this. We were already 4 weeks in and we had not yet started to tape or mud and i did not want delays with removing drywall.

The next person was punctual, but when he started he told me that he isn't a taping or a mudding guy, and he is doing it as he was asked to do.(This is important)

The mudding/taping started around June 1st week, the electrician was asked to come finish electrical on June 19th. He came with all the fixtures and was shocked as the mudding/taping was not done, the painting was not done. So he left. Then a painter was supposed to start a week later, he came and told Daniel it is not ready for painting and left. Then it was July 10th when another crew came to paint and complained about the mudding / sanding job done but they started working but went unreachable after a day.

Then the 3rd painting crew came and complained about mudding and what was supposed to be 1.5 days of painting became 5 days of work. When painting was done i noticed several defects and pointed them to Daniel, who flatly refused to fix them. The contract states that defect is anything that is visible from 5 feet. The defects was massive, all the edges were crooked, there were lines in the drywall, the drywall tape was visible, the drywall tape was blistering. Daniel's answer was "i never promised luxury finish".

Daniel pushed for electrical for July 24th(11 weeks in what was supposed to be a 6 week project). I asked him to fix the drywall issues before the electrical, but it was not use. I has already paid him 15000$. I asked him to terminate the contract as is (as suggested by him over phone). He sent me an invoice for the full amount - carpet and 2,2%.

What you can expect :

Aggressive in getting u to sign up contract

"We will match everything, do this do that" All this will be missing in the estimate and wont be done.

Delays and lies

Some of the worst mudding job (every single person who has seen my basement)

Push to use Vinyl planks for the floor - which has come off in my bathroom as it was not installed properly

Some of the most shoddy work