Paintny

We hired Ganesh, owner of PaintNY to strip old paint from moldings and doors, skim coat walls then paint the apartment. He showed up very late, one of his workers spent the night in the apartment making noise resulting in complaints from neighbors. Our board president and the super had to go there in the middle of the night to see what was going on. His crew had no idea what they were doing and had little guidance un use of chemical strippers. They failed to properly protect floors, faucets, appliances and smeared a sludge of stripper and old paint all over the apartment. They began skim coating walls without first applying bonding agent which will result in failure of the plaster within a few years. The day before the job was supposed to be done, se fired them and sent them away, we lost $ 5325 paid up front out of $ 8000 and will have to pay another contractor $ 13 500 to clean up the mess and start over then may have to have the floors refinished as they now have paint and stripper all over them. The only two pieces of furniture that were in the apartment, two barstools have paint and stripper residue on them and will be thrown out. Our apartment is a toxic waste dump now and we can’t live in it for another three weeks, and have to pay for storage and temporary housing. Using PaintNY has been an awful experience.
P. S. I’ll be glad to provide photographs of the work at the beginning, the day he was kicked out and the beautiful work being done now by the new contractor who took over the job. More has been done in three days than PaintNY was able to do in nine. Ganesh is lying, there is still no new paint on the walls and it will be another week at least before painting is done. You can’t put paint on walls during lead paint abatement as you will spread what you are trying to get rid of in the first place.
Feel free to see the mess:

Note in the photostream that work terminated with Ganesh on May 31 2015 and a new contractor starts on April 6, first photos posted are on the 8^th. You can see the state the apartment is left in on the 31^st.
I have also just been quoted $ 2600 to refinish the floors as they have been smeared with lead paint dust, sludge/​residue and stripper. Thanks, what was supposed to be an $ 8000 project will now cost us over $ 21,500. So much for vacation this year… and next.

Darrel was a true business lifesaver, our company needed some wallpaper work done before the Christmas holiday, I found his Unilocal listing crossed my fingers he was available and he was! He came the next day fixed our wallpaper, he was curtesy, reasonable priced and had great workmanship. He will now be our new office handy man!

Darrel has competed several painting projects for me, my family and friends. He is very involved day one with making recommendations if you need on paint color and the best type and brand of paint to use for the project.
For my first house Darrel re-​plastered the kitchen, which was severely damaged by old wall paper. He also did stenciling on the walls, painted the kitchen cabinets glossy white and texturing work around one side of the wall. We sold the house and we were always complimented on the kitchen by potential buyers.

We needed two rooms painted and two rooms wallpapered in our pre-​war apartment. Ganesh was able to quickly and efficiently finish all four rooms as well as do some repair work on the walls. More than two years later, we hired him again to paint and repair our hallway. He was always a pleasure to work with, very communicative and professional.