KARL & COMPANY TOOK US FOR A RIDEAS AN ELDERLY COUPLE, WE EXPECTED AN UPSTANDING CITIZEN AND HONESTY WHAT HE SAW WAS A CASH COWOUR HOME ISN'T COMPLETE TO DATE AND IT WILL COST THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO FINISH OUR HOME CONSISTS OF SHODDY WORKMANSHIP AND IS EXTREMELY EVIDENT KARL HAD NO CLUE THAT MY HUSBAND WAS IN THE TRADE FOR YEARSWE MADE THE MISTAKE OF PAYING UPFRONT BECAUSE HE CLAIMED HIS CHILDREN NEEDS TO EAT AFTER I FOUND OUT HIS WIFE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF A WORLD-WIDE KNOWN MAN IN THE ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY, I THOUGHT SHE'D PULL THROUGH DUE TO HER REPUTATION WE WERE WRONG SHE WAS RUDE, ARROGANT AND VICIOUSWE ARE LEFT HOLDING THE BAG WITH NO RECOURSE
What a tragedy my family and I had to endure.
Karl and his illegal immigrant crew came on site with genuine excitement to start the job. They first renovated the exterior of my existing home, while excavation and foundation took months to complete for the addition.
During the months of March thru May, Karl only showed up 6 times on my property, while his crew (between 1 and 2 staff members) worked on the exterior of my home and average of 3 days a week, from 10:30AM to 4:00PM, NO LIE. They were contracted to remove the exterior siding and place new trim on my home, before re-siding my home with double coated white cedar shingles that I paid a fortune for.
MAIN/EXISTING HOME:
1> The trim was installed horribly. Sections were cut up in multiple strips, where there should have been long runs. Just more work for the painter to putty the Azek and with it expanding/contracting, it's surly going to make it look horrible.
2> Siding on my home was a complete disaster. The shingles were placed too tight, which caused buckling. They were also secured with a nail gun that leaked oil, which the installer simply didn't care and continued to install with palm prints/finger prints all over my house. "Don't worry, it will come off with windex", I was told by Karl. Long of the short of it? It took them 4.5 months for them to put 70% of the siding, before they gave up. Also, the siding's 'reveal to the weather' ranged from 4" to 5" for no apparent reason. It cost me over $7,000.00 to have to professional fixed and an additional $6,500.00 to have my home re-painted. Yes, double dipped, re-finished shingles that I had to paint, that I spent over $20,000 JUST ON the shingles alone.
ADDITION/EXISTING HOME:
3> Craftsmanship was horrible. Crooked trim placement, untacked areas on the house and lack of ambition to complete each task led me to hire another contractor to finish the jobs. Another $10,000.00 was put out to complete the home. Also, regarding the trim, his lack of manpower on the job slowed the new sider's job, so Karl instructed the siders to just shingle up to the top of the walls and Karl would trim OVER THE SIDING, which is a horrible thing to do. Essentially, Karl did some of the work on each task (The EASY part of it) and got paid for the entire thing, all the meanwhile, left the tedious/time consuming part for the end. (The end, meaning, someone else that I had to hire and pay more!)
3> The actual FRAMING was the only 1/2 way commendable thing Karl's men completed. HOWEVER, the most costly mistake Karl's men did to my house were the horrible "Return Boxes" off each gable. 12 boxes in all. My coppersmith simply couldn't believe what he observed. Each return box was a different size and was rendered useless. I had to pay nearly $10,000.00 for someone to come in and complete this - which is a framer's job. Essentially, Karl had his men forego the craftsmanship of the boxes to immediately place trim over it, ALL TO GET "THE TRIM FEE", as this man is in major financial woes. So the trim had to come off the house, the boxes rebuilt, then re-trimmed. What a circus - and documented for a court case, mind you!
4> His shtick…. He starts putting in the windows, asks for the full payment because "it will be done today", but then he stops and doesn't finish the job. Then goes onto another task and repeats the SAME PROCESS until I caught on. He was ahead of me nearly $15,000.00 before I stopped paying him.
5> Thereafter, he couldn't afford to pay his men, so his men were threatening to walk. I felt bad, so although he was ahead of me, I paid Karl's payroll for the entire month of June, before I realize he could walk any minute on me. I stopped paying him on July 4, 2014.
6> Since July 4, 2014 he didn't get a dime from me, and out of punishment, he only sent ONE GUY on the job, 3 days a week.
On September 01, 2014, I fired him and stopped the misery from continuing.
I'm out over $30,000.00. He was also fired from two other jobs the week prior, as he pulled the same stunts on them. And he owes them money, which he doesn't have.
I found out later that he worked on my home with a LAPSED license. If I suffered a loss, the insurance company surely wouldn't have covered it.
The Vice President of the company, his wife, Eleanor R[redacted]) was no help at all, as all she cared about was the money. She never made an attempt to reach out to rectify the situation.
I'm begging you, the reader to think long and hard about using this company. A company who might be reasonable in the pricing, but in the end, you pay a fortune. A company who will GC your project and slap on a profit to each contractor for his own gain.
I have documentation/photographs to back all my information that I've provided to you. Anyone is welcome to come see my house and the less than acceptable job Karl and his crew provided.
So you check with the Dept. of Consumer Protection, right? All the customers who he [redacted] over, for some reason, never bothered and walked away from their messes. The last two others who fired him haven't bothered either. But I'm in the works to get a class action suit placed against him to send a message that you simply can't take advantage of people.
PLEASE MAKE NOTE: According to the State of Connecticut: K.N. Construction has not been in business since early 2000. Karl is using another alias: K. Nilsen Construction Co., Inc. - Same address, same phone number.
KARL & COMPANY TOOK US FOR A RIDE.
AS AN ELDERLY COUPLE, WE EXPECTED AN UPSTANDING CITIZEN AND HONESTY. WHAT HE SAW WAS A CASH COW.
OUR HOME ISN'T COMPLETE TO DATE AND IT WILL COST THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO FINISH. OUR HOME CONSISTS OF SHODDY WORKMANSHIP AND IS EXTREMELY EVIDENT. KARL HAD NO CLUE THAT MY HUSBAND WAS IN THE TRADE FOR YEARS.
WE MADE THE MISTAKE OF PAYING UPFRONT BECAUSE HE CLAIMED HIS CHILDREN NEEDS TO EAT. AFTER I FOUND OUT HIS WIFE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF A WORLD-WIDE KNOWN MAN IN THE ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY, I THOUGHT SHE'D PULL THROUGH DUE TO HER REPUTATION. WE WERE WRONG. SHE WAS RUDE, ARROGANT AND VICIOUS.
WE ARE LEFT HOLDING THE BAG WITH NO RECOURSE.
What a tragedy my family and I had to endure.
Karl and his illegal immigrant crew came on site with genuine excitement to start the job. They first renovated the exterior of my existing home, while excavation and foundation took months to complete for the addition.
During the months of March thru May, Karl only showed up 6 times on my property, while his crew (between 1 and 2 staff members) worked on the exterior of my home and average of 3 days a week, from 10:30AM to 4:00PM, NO LIE. They were contracted to remove the exterior siding and place new trim on my home, before re-siding my home with double coated white cedar shingles that I paid a fortune for.
MAIN/EXISTING HOME:
1> The trim was installed horribly. Sections were cut up in multiple strips, where there should have been long runs. Just more work for the painter to putty the Azek and with it expanding/contracting, it's surly going to make it look horrible.
2> Siding on my home was a complete disaster. The shingles were placed too tight, which caused buckling. They were also secured with a nail gun that leaked oil, which the installer simply didn't care and continued to install with palm prints/finger prints all over my house. "Don't worry, it will come off with windex", I was told by Karl. Long of the short of it? It took them 4.5 months for them to put 70% of the siding, before they gave up. Also, the siding's 'reveal to the weather' ranged from 4" to 5" for no apparent reason. It cost me over $7,000.00 to have to professional fixed and an additional $6,500.00 to have my home re-painted. Yes, double dipped, re-finished shingles that I had to paint, that I spent over $20,000 JUST ON the shingles alone.
ADDITION/EXISTING HOME:
3> Craftsmanship was horrible. Crooked trim placement, untacked areas on the house and lack of ambition to complete each task led me to hire another contractor to finish the jobs. Another $10,000.00 was put out to complete the home. Also, regarding the trim, his lack of manpower on the job slowed the new sider's job, so Karl instructed the siders to just shingle up to the top of the walls and Karl would trim OVER THE SIDING, which is a horrible thing to do. Essentially, Karl did some of the work on each task (The EASY part of it) and got paid for the entire thing, all the meanwhile, left the tedious/time consuming part for the end. (The end, meaning, someone else that I had to hire and pay more!)
3> The actual FRAMING was the only 1/2 way commendable thing Karl's men completed. HOWEVER, the most costly mistake Karl's men did to my house were the horrible "Return Boxes" off each gable. 12 boxes in all. My coppersmith simply couldn't believe what he observed. Each return box was a different size and was rendered useless. I had to pay nearly $10,000.00 for someone to come in and complete this - which is a framer's job. Essentially, Karl had his men forego the craftsmanship of the boxes to immediately place trim over it, ALL TO GET "THE TRIM FEE", as this man is in major financial woes. So the trim had to come off the house, the boxes rebuilt, then re-trimmed. What a circus - and documented for a court case, mind you!
4> His shtick…. He starts putting in the windows, asks for the full payment because "it will be done today", but then he stops and doesn't finish the job. Then goes onto another task and repeats the SAME PROCESS until I caught on. He was ahead of me nearly $15,000.00 before I stopped paying him.
5> Thereafter, he couldn't afford to pay his men, so his men were threatening to walk. I felt bad, so although he was ahead of me, I paid Karl's payroll for the entire month of June, before I realize he could walk any minute on me. I stopped paying him on July 4, 2014.
6> Since July 4, 2014 he didn't get a dime from me, and out of punishment, he only sent ONE GUY on the job, 3 days a week.
On September 01, 2014, I fired him and stopped the misery from continuing.
I'm out over $30,000.00. He was also fired from two other jobs the week prior, as he pulled the same stunts on them. And he owes them money, which he doesn't have.
I found out later that he worked on my home with a LAPSED license. If I suffered a loss, the insurance company surely wouldn't have covered it.
The Vice President of the company, his wife, Eleanor R[redacted]) was no help at all, as all she cared about was the money. She never made an attempt to reach out to rectify the situation.
I'm begging you, the reader to think long and hard about using this company. A company who might be reasonable in the pricing, but in the end, you pay a fortune. A company who will GC your project and slap on a profit to each contractor for his own gain.
I have documentation/photographs to back all my information that I've provided to you. Anyone is welcome to come see my house and the less than acceptable job Karl and his crew provided.
So you check with the Dept. of Consumer Protection, right? All the customers who he [redacted] over, for some reason, never bothered and walked away from their messes. The last two others who fired him haven't bothered either. But I'm in the works to get a class action suit placed against him to send a message that you simply can't take advantage of people.
PLEASE MAKE NOTE: According to the State of Connecticut: K.N. Construction has not been in business since early 2000. Karl is using another alias: K. Nilsen Construction Co., Inc. - Same address, same phone number.
KARL & COMPANY TOOK US FOR A RIDEAS AN ELDERLY COUPLE, WE EXPECTED AN UPSTANDING CITIZEN AND HONESTY WHAT HE SAW WAS A CASH COWOUR HOME ISN'T COMPLETE TO DATE AND IT WILL COST THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO FINISH OUR HOME CONSISTS OF SHODDY WORKMANSHIP AND IS EXTREMELY EVIDENT KARL HAD NO CLUE THAT MY HUSBAND WAS IN THE TRADE FOR YEARSWE MADE THE MISTAKE OF PAYING UPFRONT BECAUSE HE CLAIMED HIS CHILDREN NEEDS TO EAT AFTER I FOUND OUT HIS WIFE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF A WORLD-WIDE KNOWN MAN IN THE ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY, I THOUGHT SHE'D PULL THROUGH DUE TO HER REPUTATION WE WERE WRONG SHE WAS RUDE, ARROGANT AND VICIOUSWE ARE LEFT HOLDING THE BAG WITH NO RECOURSE
What a tragedy my family and I had to endure.
Karl and his illegal immigrant crew came on site with genuine excitement to start the job. They first renovated the exterior of my existing home, while excavation and foundation took months to complete for the addition.
During the months of March thru May, Karl only showed up 6 times on my property, while his crew (between 1 and 2 staff members) worked on the exterior of my home and average of 3 days a week, from 10:30AM to 4:00PM, NO LIE. They were contracted to remove the exterior siding and place new trim on my home, before re-siding my home with double coated white cedar shingles that I paid a fortune for.
MAIN/EXISTING HOME:
1> The trim was installed horribly. Sections were cut up in multiple strips, where there should have been long runs. Just more work for the painter to putty the Azek and with it expanding/contracting, it's surly going to make it look horrible.
2> Siding on my home was a complete disaster. The shingles were placed too tight, which caused buckling. They were also secured with a nail gun that leaked oil, which the installer simply didn't care and continued to install with palm prints/finger prints all over my house. "Don't worry, it will come off with windex", I was told by Karl. Long of the short of it? It took them 4.5 months for them to put 70% of the siding, before they gave up. Also, the siding's 'reveal to the weather' ranged from 4" to 5" for no apparent reason. It cost me over $7,000.00 to have to professional fixed and an additional $6,500.00 to have my home re-painted. Yes, double dipped, re-finished shingles that I had to paint, that I spent over $20,000 JUST ON the shingles alone.
ADDITION/EXISTING HOME:
3> Craftsmanship was horrible. Crooked trim placement, untacked areas on the house and lack of ambition to complete each task led me to hire another contractor to finish the jobs. Another $10,000.00 was put out to complete the home. Also, regarding the trim, his lack of manpower on the job slowed the new sider's job, so Karl instructed the siders to just shingle up to the top of the walls and Karl would trim OVER THE SIDING, which is a horrible thing to do. Essentially, Karl did some of the work on each task (The EASY part of it) and got paid for the entire thing, all the meanwhile, left the tedious/time consuming part for the end. (The end, meaning, someone else that I had to hire and pay more!)
3> The actual FRAMING was the only 1/2 way commendable thing Karl's men completed. HOWEVER, the most costly mistake Karl's men did to my house were the horrible "Return Boxes" off each gable. 12 boxes in all. My coppersmith simply couldn't believe what he observed. Each return box was a different size and was rendered useless. I had to pay nearly $10,000.00 for someone to come in and complete this - which is a framer's job. Essentially, Karl had his men forego the craftsmanship of the boxes to immediately place trim over it, ALL TO GET "THE TRIM FEE", as this man is in major financial woes. So the trim had to come off the house, the boxes rebuilt, then re-trimmed. What a circus - and documented for a court case, mind you!
4> His shtick…. He starts putting in the windows, asks for the full payment because "it will be done today", but then he stops and doesn't finish the job. Then goes onto another task and repeats the SAME PROCESS until I caught on. He was ahead of me nearly $15,000.00 before I stopped paying him.
5> Thereafter, he couldn't afford to pay his men, so his men were threatening to walk. I felt bad, so although he was ahead of me, I paid Karl's payroll for the entire month of June, before I realize he could walk any minute on me. I stopped paying him on July 4, 2014.
6> Since July 4, 2014 he didn't get a dime from me, and out of punishment, he only sent ONE GUY on the job, 3 days a week.
On September 01, 2014, I fired him and stopped the misery from continuing.
I'm out over $30,000.00. He was also fired from two other jobs the week prior, as he pulled the same stunts on them. And he owes them money, which he doesn't have.
I found out later that he worked on my home with a LAPSED license. If I suffered a loss, the insurance company surely wouldn't have covered it.
The Vice President of the company, his wife, Eleanor R[redacted]) was no help at all, as all she cared about was the money. She never made an attempt to reach out to rectify the situation.
I'm begging you, the reader to think long and hard about using this company. A company who might be reasonable in the pricing, but in the end, you pay a fortune. A company who will GC your project and slap on a profit to each contractor for his own gain.
I have documentation/photographs to back all my information that I've provided to you. Anyone is welcome to come see my house and the less than acceptable job Karl and his crew provided.
So you check with the Dept. of Consumer Protection, right? All the customers who he [redacted] over, for some reason, never bothered and walked away from their messes. The last two others who fired him haven't bothered either. But I'm in the works to get a class action suit placed against him to send a message that you simply can't take advantage of people.
PLEASE MAKE NOTE: According to the State of Connecticut: K.N. Construction has not been in business since early 2000. Karl is using another alias: K. Nilsen Construction Co., Inc. - Same address, same phone number.
KARL & COMPANY TOOK US FOR A RIDE.
AS AN ELDERLY COUPLE, WE EXPECTED AN UPSTANDING CITIZEN AND HONESTY. WHAT HE SAW WAS A CASH COW.
OUR HOME ISN'T COMPLETE TO DATE AND IT WILL COST THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO FINISH. OUR HOME CONSISTS OF SHODDY WORKMANSHIP AND IS EXTREMELY EVIDENT. KARL HAD NO CLUE THAT MY HUSBAND WAS IN THE TRADE FOR YEARS.
WE MADE THE MISTAKE OF PAYING UPFRONT BECAUSE HE CLAIMED HIS CHILDREN NEEDS TO EAT. AFTER I FOUND OUT HIS WIFE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF A WORLD-WIDE KNOWN MAN IN THE ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY, I THOUGHT SHE'D PULL THROUGH DUE TO HER REPUTATION. WE WERE WRONG. SHE WAS RUDE, ARROGANT AND VICIOUS.
WE ARE LEFT HOLDING THE BAG WITH NO RECOURSE.
What a tragedy my family and I had to endure.
Karl and his illegal immigrant crew came on site with genuine excitement to start the job. They first renovated the exterior of my existing home, while excavation and foundation took months to complete for the addition.
During the months of March thru May, Karl only showed up 6 times on my property, while his crew (between 1 and 2 staff members) worked on the exterior of my home and average of 3 days a week, from 10:30AM to 4:00PM, NO LIE. They were contracted to remove the exterior siding and place new trim on my home, before re-siding my home with double coated white cedar shingles that I paid a fortune for.
MAIN/EXISTING HOME:
1> The trim was installed horribly. Sections were cut up in multiple strips, where there should have been long runs. Just more work for the painter to putty the Azek and with it expanding/contracting, it's surly going to make it look horrible.
2> Siding on my home was a complete disaster. The shingles were placed too tight, which caused buckling. They were also secured with a nail gun that leaked oil, which the installer simply didn't care and continued to install with palm prints/finger prints all over my house. "Don't worry, it will come off with windex", I was told by Karl. Long of the short of it? It took them 4.5 months for them to put 70% of the siding, before they gave up. Also, the siding's 'reveal to the weather' ranged from 4" to 5" for no apparent reason. It cost me over $7,000.00 to have to professional fixed and an additional $6,500.00 to have my home re-painted. Yes, double dipped, re-finished shingles that I had to paint, that I spent over $20,000 JUST ON the shingles alone.
ADDITION/EXISTING HOME:
3> Craftsmanship was horrible. Crooked trim placement, untacked areas on the house and lack of ambition to complete each task led me to hire another contractor to finish the jobs. Another $10,000.00 was put out to complete the home. Also, regarding the trim, his lack of manpower on the job slowed the new sider's job, so Karl instructed the siders to just shingle up to the top of the walls and Karl would trim OVER THE SIDING, which is a horrible thing to do. Essentially, Karl did some of the work on each task (The EASY part of it) and got paid for the entire thing, all the meanwhile, left the tedious/time consuming part for the end. (The end, meaning, someone else that I had to hire and pay more!)
3> The actual FRAMING was the only 1/2 way commendable thing Karl's men completed. HOWEVER, the most costly mistake Karl's men did to my house were the horrible "Return Boxes" off each gable. 12 boxes in all. My coppersmith simply couldn't believe what he observed. Each return box was a different size and was rendered useless. I had to pay nearly $10,000.00 for someone to come in and complete this - which is a framer's job. Essentially, Karl had his men forego the craftsmanship of the boxes to immediately place trim over it, ALL TO GET "THE TRIM FEE", as this man is in major financial woes. So the trim had to come off the house, the boxes rebuilt, then re-trimmed. What a circus - and documented for a court case, mind you!
4> His shtick…. He starts putting in the windows, asks for the full payment because "it will be done today", but then he stops and doesn't finish the job. Then goes onto another task and repeats the SAME PROCESS until I caught on. He was ahead of me nearly $15,000.00 before I stopped paying him.
5> Thereafter, he couldn't afford to pay his men, so his men were threatening to walk. I felt bad, so although he was ahead of me, I paid Karl's payroll for the entire month of June, before I realize he could walk any minute on me. I stopped paying him on July 4, 2014.
6> Since July 4, 2014 he didn't get a dime from me, and out of punishment, he only sent ONE GUY on the job, 3 days a week.
On September 01, 2014, I fired him and stopped the misery from continuing.
I'm out over $30,000.00. He was also fired from two other jobs the week prior, as he pulled the same stunts on them. And he owes them money, which he doesn't have.
I found out later that he worked on my home with a LAPSED license. If I suffered a loss, the insurance company surely wouldn't have covered it.
The Vice President of the company, his wife, Eleanor R[redacted]) was no help at all, as all she cared about was the money. She never made an attempt to reach out to rectify the situation.
I'm begging you, the reader to think long and hard about using this company. A company who might be reasonable in the pricing, but in the end, you pay a fortune. A company who will GC your project and slap on a profit to each contractor for his own gain.
I have documentation/photographs to back all my information that I've provided to you. Anyone is welcome to come see my house and the less than acceptable job Karl and his crew provided.
So you check with the Dept. of Consumer Protection, right? All the customers who he [redacted] over, for some reason, never bothered and walked away from their messes. The last two others who fired him haven't bothered either. But I'm in the works to get a class action suit placed against him to send a message that you simply can't take advantage of people.
PLEASE MAKE NOTE: According to the State of Connecticut: K.N. Construction has not been in business since early 2000. Karl is using another alias: K. Nilsen Construction Co., Inc. - Same address, same phone number.