Welder did a very nice work with my cabinetinstallation and he is flexible with requirements, not among those folks who look for excuses to make money.
Definitely I’ll hire him next time for similar work.
Home Improvement
Igor M.
Leo's company replaced the floor in our kitchen and dining room, demolished the old cabinets in the kitchen, put new ones in, and redid the wall. I'm pretty happy with the results in the end.
The floors used to creak/squeak so one of the first things he did was put in LOTS of screws to attach the subfloor to the boards underneath to make sure they would never make noises again, and that's when I realized he would do a really good job that we'll be happy with. The floor came out beautiful, and it lines up with the hardwood outside the areas that needed work perfectly. He made a seamless transition. He also put in nice baseboards and trim to make the transition to the walls look beautiful.
The company worked with us to figure out if a Lazy Susan would work in the corner, and as they said, it fits perfectly and the dishes are accessible even with the stove right next to it. Leo also suggested a couple of nice colors for the handles, and we went with one of them. I don't know why he kept saying we're going to have much more space (at one point saying 3x as much) when some of the corresponding drawers are actually much smaller and barely fit anything. In any case, the cabinets look very very nice, and we're quite happy with them.
In the process of replacing the cabinets, he discovered an old metal drain pipe that was in the way of the cabinets. If kept as is, it would have taken up a lot of space inside the cabinets and made lots of holes in the nice walls of the cabinets, so he suggested removing it and replacing it with a plastic pipe that would go underneath the floor instead. His plumbers would have done it for $1300 but he said he'd do it for $600, and we went with him. It looks much better and functions really well; thank you very much for this, Leo!
As one might imagine, not everything went smoothly in the process, and after some trouble with communication, we decided to go with the company he partners with for countertops directly, Space Countertop Inc., instead of him, this breaking a part of the contract. I think we ended up saving a couple hundred bucks this way but he was really upset with us for asking about the price per sq. ft. of the countertop and for breaking that part of the contract with him and going directly with the company, which hindered the progress with further work so I don't think it was really worth it in the end. For example, right now we're still missing a bit of caulk / paint that should have been there to cover the gap between the countertop and the wall. Apparently, this was Leo's job to put in while painting the wall so the color matches the wall's paint.
There were a few scratches on the shelves inside the cabinets that he patched up using a touch up kit I ordered from Amazon; they look fine now. They also left a lot of debris and dust in the cabinets that took forever to clean up.
They bought lots of supplies from Home Depot, gave me the receipts, and I paid for them. This was a bit frightening at first because I didn't know how much extra cost there was going to be that wasn't in the contract but it didn't come out to much compared to the whole expense (certainly less than $1000).
The whole kitchen and dining room were painted and patched up really well, and we love the new ceiling lights he put into the kitchen. I really liked the professional tool he used that makes lights at a right angle on the ceiling to make the four new lights a perfect rectangle centered in the middle of the space.
He's promised to also install new coverings for our air vents in the space if we buy them (he still needs to send us the link).
Overall, I really like the results, and I'd say it was well with the money. Thank you, Leo!
White Walnut Woodmaster
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