Lex Arbesman from Toronto

We hired Elite Trade Painting through Sean at their Mississauga location. At first Sean was very friendly. When the work started things went bad fast. Right at the beginning there was bad site preparation. Floors, mill-work, cabinetry, doors and other fixtures were not covered and very little was taped. After the wall patching and the painting started, the house was a huge mess, with paint and drywall compound spilled on the floors and drips all over doors etc. We confronted Sean about the bad work and damage; he begged us to give him a chance to fix it and make everything right. Against my better judgement we allowed him to try and fix things. Things only got worse.... we paid for two coats of Benjamin More Aura. We did not even get one coat. Where they did paint, the walls felt like orange peels with bubbling and imperfections everywhere, sections of walls were missed, they used ceiling paint on the trim .... The painters we requested quotes from to fix the job advised that Elite Trade Painting must have watered down the paint, and did allot of dry rolling to stretch the paint. That is what caused the orange peel effect on the walls. It was not just sloppy work it was deliberate, cutting corners to save money on materials. The quotes we received to fix the job, were higher then it would have been to do the job from the beginning because of the cost to fixing Elite the damage. That does not even take into account the cost to refinish the floors or mill-work. Just before we ended things with Elite, we found out Sean had quit and sold his franchise. Sean became unreachable. We contacted Elite's head office and advised them of what happened and got no satisfactory response. We hired a new painter to fix the job and he did a very professional job. He also cut us a huge discount as he felt so bad about how were were treated by Elite.

We had a very bad experience with Euro Plumbing. For one, they provided a quote for the work, and almost immediately started asking for more money outside of the quote. When told that they would be required to hold to the quote, they would drop the issue but then bring it up again later. They were provided with detailed plans for the renovation including, pluming and fixture placement and they had real problems following the plans. Almost every fixture required replacement because they did not follow the plans. They were very sloppy in their work, leaving a mess everywhere, and having little regard for the site conditions. They damaged drywall, scratched counter tops, and when called on it for damaging the site, said oh well... They at one point asked for $2,000.00 dollars more because of the inconvenience of driving in from Guelph for the Job. If they found taking a job in Toronto difficult, they should not have bid on it. The final straw that resulted in them being kicked off the job was when they tried to hook up the ice maker on the fridge and caused a flood, damaging the fridge, the floor and the walls. They then had the audacity to give an invoice for and extra $300.00 dollars for trying to hook up the fridge. Use these guys at your own risk.