Decco Painting & Home Improvements

I will NOT recommend Decco Painting. Beware - unprofessional painter!!
I contracted with Patrick from Decco Painting to remove wallpapers and paint a 3BR house in Collingwood. He quoted me $3200 plus tax and estimated it is a 2 weeks job. I paid him $800 deposit for materials, which he did not bring to the site until I pressured him to do so. Then he brought only 2-3 gallons of primer and paint. I gave Patrick a key on 07/09/2011, but for the first 2 weeks he did not do anything, providing an excuse his mother was ill. I told him I understand, but that I expect him to catch up the time, as we have other trades scheduled after him. Two weeks later he came with another worker, and never stayed on the kjob site more than 6 hours. One day he came alone saying the worker is ill. I kept asking about adding more people and he said all the other crews are busy with exterior work. On rainy days, I asked again, BUT he came up with another excuse. When the actually began to work, it was evident they have very little experience and after 1-2 days I felt uncomfortable and wasn't convinced they can finish the work. The had lots of excuses about the wallpapers and they totally damaged the walls while attempting to remove the wallpapers. It was so bad that I had to hire a drywaller to skim coat all the damaged walls. One afternoon I was on site and went out for lunch. When I came back Patrick and his worker were not there. They took off. I then emailed him that I terminate the contract and fire him. I removed the other wall papers myself with a steamer and was just fine. This tells me they had no clue what to do. I hired a drywaller to fixed the other walls, and then a professional painter that finished the paint job in 3 days.
Bottom line, Patrick is not a professional painter. He may be a nice guy, but he has very little experience, and therefore I would not hire him for any job. HE did more damage than good work. You can email me if you would like more details. Daniel

Not happy with the quality of work that was provided. Many areas were missed and we are still finding them in the most remote places of the house. I simply would not use them again.