Old Bay Remodeling

This company was a liar big time , our contract $54,000.00 should be finished with in 2 to 3 months for my extension, it was a deck converted to another living area. But ended up for over a year. He couldn't finish anymore, they always make a promise that will come and continue working just until he made a settlement with prejudice. What the worst part when I was making a report that the job was not right or, if there's something isn't right they would say we will fix it but never fix. They are good on telling you "we can fix it" but didn't. I have $6,000.00 remaining that he said I don't have to pay but he will stop on working with the project, which according to him I will only spend probably a couple of thousand because according to him nothing much left that needed to be done. But the truth I spent $8,000.00 more. The circuit breaker panel that they installed wasn't good according to Howard county inspector.I needed to replaced that but the person who installed, don't want to dot it because according to him, the old bay did not pay him at all. So I have to find another company but needed to cancel the previous permit that old bay hired. I spent $3,400.00 for the new installer. Now I have to wait for Howard county inspector if these will pass. Today is month of May 28, 2022, this project started Sep, 2020. One more thing the 2 storm door that they installed for this project wasn't good, they are crooked until the wind blown them away, so I have to purchased again a new 2 storm door plus labor that cost me $1,400.00. Also the 8 recessed lights are not good, someone needs to fix, my other outlets in my formal dining room got affected , 4 outlets are not working, these cost me a lot also, but I will stop for a while spending for this project. More thing with the Old bay, they will show you a catalog , example window, doors etc, they asked me to pick but the one that I picked didn't received as the one that I picked, they sent me a very cheaper one , esp. my door, the door that I want was with internal blinds but I received a regular door very cheap I saw these at Home Depot. The door that I want was cost $760.00 and according to Jerome he will purchase them but they purchased different door only cost $190.00. They lied a lot more for this project. The woods are building up molds, they said they will apply a mold removal, next thing I know will put the dry wall without spraying the mold removal, I said to stop putting the dry wall if they don't want to do it then I will buy, so ended up that I bought galloons of mold removal, I'm the who sprayed also I purchase a tester for mold. There's a lot more to tell with this project, I'm just sharing for other people to help them to be aware of this company "OLD BAY REMODELING"

Poor Installation, Unresponsive and Untimely. Over Promise and Under Deliver.
In prepping my house to sell, I was on a short turn around time to get my work needed completed. 2/13/2020 Old Bay Handyman/Remodeling (OBH) sent Ben in Sales, out to provide an estimate and he said they'd be able to complete the job the week of February 17, 2020. I was sent a contract and asked to make a deposit on 2/18/20. I contacted their office and spoke to ***. I expressed the importance of having the work completed by that Friday, 2/21 and was assured they could make that happen. I told her if you cannot get it done in time, I will use another contractor. I was assured they would start Thursday, February 20, 2020 and that they'd be done by Friday or Saturday at the latest, so I made the deposit that same day. The next day, Wed., Feb. 19 *** calls and says one of the workers had an emergency and wouldn't be able to start Thursday but we were still on track and could begin Friday and they'd work through the weekend to meet my deadline. On Thursday, I get a call from Ben saying they could not start until Monday, thus making it impossible for me to get the job completed by someone else in my timeframe!! They started Monday, February 24th (when the job was to be complete) which was 4 days late and said it would take 2-3 days but it ultimately took 4 days.

Ben said they had a crew but only one person was sent to do my main level flooring. Mike, the Installer, was told he'd have help but no one ever came. He started Monday (2/24) and on the third day when he was not even halfway done I asked when he anticipated being done and he said "not before Friday"! Mike needed 5 days not 2-3 to complete the main level flooring.

I also had OBH replace all the carpet on my second floor on this same contract. I never saw them, was never told they were coming, (Mike was there when they came) and I was only informed after they had left that the job was done. I had my entire house painted before they came and they carelessly drug carpet up the steps, scratching up my railing, nicking the walls and with their handprints on the white walls. The carpet installed has ridges/humps in both bedrooms from it not being stretched correctly. The humps/ridges in the carpet was the only reason I was replacing the original carpet in one of the rooms and they installed the new carpet exactly the same way. I called and asked that it be fixed and was told they'd come that afternoon (Thursday, February 27th) or the next day. No one ever came back to fix these ridges/humps. No one ever called to say they were no longer coming, when it would be fixed or what the plan of correction would be. I called and left another message Friday evening when I got home and found out no one had been there (I work full-time during the day, an hour away). 7 hours later, I received a request for final payment yet the work is still incomplete.

I contacted Mr. of Old Bay Handyman on November 4th 2019, regarding finishing up a full bath upstairs that was started but not completed. *** told me the job would take 4 days and Charged Five thousand, six hundred and fifty dollar (5,650.00). I have paid three thousand, four hundred and nine-one dollars, seven cents ($3,491.7). After I have paid $3,491, Mr *** asked me to pay him extra money for them to continue, I refused and told him that they have not done any tangible job , that all the did was to break down my walls. In the basement, they open the wall to the outside that enabled so many rats to get into my house. I have never have rodents in the house before. They broke up the walls in the basement ceiling, they left trash, dust every where in the basement. In the bathroom upstairs the used the existing equipment, they did not installed any equipment that made sense to me. I told Mr. that I have paid more that half of the total cost of the job that he needed to finish the job before getting another payment. Mr. refused and said he must have additional money to continue. I told him I will give him till January 16th 2020 to come and finish the job. At this time it was at the end of December as the men will show up for 10 minutes and leave and will not show up again for days. I kept calling Oldbay and Oldbay kept giving excuses and proponing the dates for the job. I have all the written evidences and evidence of payments. On January 18, 2020 I wrote to *** of OLdBay and explained the health hazards they exposed my family to as most of the kids started having respiratory problem.
I have 7 little kids from ages 3 to 12 years old and they have been having respiratory problems after OldBay broke open the walls without closing them back. I worried so much about the rats as the rats seem to be increasing in number despites that rat medications I have been using.
I want Oldbay to pay me for this inhuman treatments, for exposing the family to rats infestation.