Poor grouting of porous stone listello

Unfortunately, the contractor JCA in Mahopac, New York and us had to go to court. Bob Mayer, the contractor did not pre seal the listello, which is very tiny and porous, heavily grouted and did not wipe immediately after applying the grout creating a hazy, soap scum dingy effect in our bathroom. We took pics at every juncture of the process everytime this man was in our home. He worked only hous a day. Some times 2 hours others, 3, the most 4 hours a day for which he was paid a total of 1,090. We had gutted the bathroom and tiled the lower part of the bathroom walls. We had instaled cement wet wall in the shower as well as installed the shower base. However, we felt we should go with a professional contractor to finish the process with the beautiful listello accent since we did not want anything to take away from our intended vision for the ultmate outcome of the bathroom. We have never had experience with any of this sort of thing before. Lamentably, not only was the listello improperly treated, stones fell off, some broke off, others were pushed back into place, other pieces were misaligned and c**keyed. The contractor, upon my request, stated that "You do not pre-seal this porous stone. You grout then wait a month to seal" We have secured written statements from 17 reputable (we now know who these people are, not so at the time of remodeling) contractors and expert tilesetters who have come to the home and inspected the job a day sometimes 2 days at the least 3 days after the installation of the border by JCA Construction. The concensus is overhwelming: Substabdard installation, grouting and treatment of stone, In addition, these written evaluations also pointed overwhelmingly to the fact that othe areas done by Mr. Myer were not up to standards: Shower body installed to low; shower frame not sealed on the sides, door frame cut too high creating draft coming inside the bathroom; ceiling needed another coat of paint, walls needed a second coat of paint; the upper portion of the shower tiled by this man was not flushed, not in alignement with the rest of the wall. There are lumpy areas along the way, vaniity not secured to side wall, the penci borders had yellow paint and grout all over them on top of them, to mention a few. The contractor was allowed two days within which to address these concerns none of which were done. We therefore terminated his services since he faied to address the issue of damage control with the imported listello and the substandard application of the above mentioned items. Bob Mayer's, aka JCA, defense has been that: "I was not allowed to finish my work" He came to our home uninvited and unannounced after we terminated his job wanting to finish in order to get paid the balance of what the job had been stipulated to be! We have filed a grievance against him with consumer affairs and plan to take this to other forums so that others are not beguiled. THIS PERSON SHOULD BE BANNED FROM WORKING ANYWHERE! A contractor came to the house 2 days after this man was at ur home and asked me: "What's the carpenter doing in your house". He was recognized by someone who knew him. (I should have known then and not waited till the following workday when the disaster ocurred!) Well. If carpenter by trade, he can't even cut a door straight enough not to allow drafts of air from seeping in. JCA Construction, BOB MAYER is a substandard, unreliable, unreputable company. To date, Mr. Mayer does not take responsibility for the disaster he created nor the fact that he did not know how to install this type of border. BUYER BEWARE! Handiman Connection has also terminated his contract with them.

Did you really expect someone, ANYONE, to do all that work for just $1090? He must have been the cheapest contractor you could find and unfortunately you got what you paid for. All of the work you stated should have cost thousands of dollars more to be done professionally, but again (unfortunately) you probably looked for cheapest. Was he recomended by someone or did you just go with him becuase of his price? Did someone on that website leave comments about him that praised his work?

And?

Oh well.

Just curious: How old is this Bob Mayer? I suspect there is alot more to this than is being offered by only one side of the issue. I also agree that the price was way out of line. Much too cheap.