Southern Maine Builders

Mario was great, until after the first meeting and demo job. Mario was sub-contracted through our GC to pick up where our first contractor left off, doing Hardie-board siding and soffits. He convinced us to redo the 40% of the siding that had already been done because.. it would be much better. I asked what that meant, and they talked about the gaps needing to be a little larger. The work was slow, was never finished, and the quality was variable -- four different crews came out, and the gaps were from large to non-existent on the same side of the building. We had to pay a different company to redo the front-facing side at a size-able expense in labor and materials, but it looks much better now. On top of that, he didn't put flashing tape under the corner trim, despite my repeated requests, and apparently lied about having done it. At some point, the fourth crew just stopped showing up. I tried to call him to work it out, but he wouldn't answer the phone. Once I hired a new crew, I had to hassle him to remove his staging from the job site. But the new crew was very professional and did impeccable work.