J.Portillo Construction, Inc.

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J Portillo Construction was hired to fix my front steps which had settled, spalling had occurred and point tucking was needed. After the work was done, my front step coming down from the top stoop had over a 9” drop which I discovered wasn’t up to code. The point tucking he did wasn’t filed properly. The object was to replace the mortar to match the mortar on the house. Unfortunately, the mortar did not match and it was all over the bricks. One of the replaced bullnose brick was with a brick that had a huge chip in it. The chip was filled in with mortar to cover the defect. His reason for using the defective brick was that “he ended up using more bullnose bricks on the job than he expected so he had to make do”. Overall, this was a very sloppy job and not professional at all. Mr. Portillo promised to come out numerous times to fix the defects. After numerous no-shows, Mr. Portillo stopped returning my calls and would not answer he office or cell phone. I wouldn’t recommend J. Portillo Construction to any homeowner. The quality of work he did may be sufficient for commercial or apartments, however; it doesn’t satisfy a homeowner. Even if you put aside the cosmetic issues, the fact that space between my steps isn’t up to code is another issue. A recent estimate to fix the issues he left came to $2000.