Eager to work, but misrepresented his abilities to install Ikea kitchen cabinets. He is one of those people who should be asked a lot of questions up front.
David was very responsive to my texts, impressedly so. He came up with a price to do the whole job. He told me he could do the job. He showed up with a helper. I have Ikea Kitchen cabinets and he said he could do installation but he didn’t have any Ikea cabinetinstall experience. He didn’t mention this. I asked. He said yes, he could do it.
He did not install the rails onto the wall, the first step. He didn’t know how to fill the gaps on the sides. He did not ask me for my kitchen cabinet plans or layout and instead installed them in the wrong spot. He didn’t ask me for any plans or input. He told me two items where missing, so I drove one hour to Ikea to pick up two drawers. I returned. And found the cabinetsinstalled in the wrong placement. I could not get my oven to fit, in his layout, as he put the cabinets all far right with an 8” gap on the far left. I wanted them centered. I had to have him stop. He wanted $1300 for the whole job, and demanded $1000 for the work he did. I paid. It was one day of work. But now I have to have his work undone and then done correctly. And he is not answering my texts anymore. He should have asked me where I wanted the gaps. Where he placed my cabinets would have caused me to have an electrician move the oven outlet and a plumber redesign the drainage pipes.
He should have been honest and told me he didn’t know how Ikea cabinets get installed. He claimed he has 14 years experience installingcabinets.
David Akubardiia
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