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Gene came to my house and quoted to pressure my house and to strip and stain my deck. The price for the pressure washing was over double what three other handymen offered and the price to strip and stain the deck was on the high side, but fair. We used a different guy for the pressure washing and planned to use Gene for the deck. He informed us that he would get to it on Thursday or Friday in two weeks. This was fine.



Then the first Friday he called at 8:30 am and said he wanted to do it that day. This of course happened to be the day the other guy was pressure washing the house. Since I only have one spigot and they both were not going to be able to pressure wash at the same time, I told him it would be better if he stuck to the date he originally planned for. He seemed aggravated, but agreed he would do it the next week as planned. In addition, at this time he told us to buy the stain we wanted. I believe this was due to our conversations in which he had mentioned to use a solid stain, but we preferred a semi-transparent. Needless to say we bought 5 gal of stain per his recommendation. Nearly $200.00 worth.



The next week we proceeded to prepare for him to come on Thursday or Friday as planned. We removed all of our furniture from the porch and took down lights, curtains, and decorations. Needless to say, I got an email from Gene on Friday, just before noon, saying he was not going to do our deck.



Now our porch is not usable (no point in putting everything back up to take it back down in a couple of weeks) and $200 in stain with no one to do the porch. The next guy can't do it for three weeks. I would say be very wary of using Gene for any services, and if you plan to have a back up plan ready. This is the most unprofessional experience I have dealt with in a contractor.