I have some good things to say about John DiSpirito, and bad things. We started out hiring him to retile a sunken bathtub in July 2016, took longer than we thought, but he did a excellent job and fixed a problem. With that in mind, we continued to hire him for a re-do of an outside fire pit/cool deck area, which started in October 2016. Was to take a week, 10 days, included some demo work, and new concrete pour and tiling a area for the moveable firepit. I purchased the tile, but everything else was to be contractor supplied, gave him a down payment and he started work. The demo was completed and he formed up the area, just awaiting a concrete pour, that is where it stopped. I had even loaned him some money so he could get insurance, paid deposit, and another payment. He had transportation issues, his truck broke down, then a rental truck he said that was recalled(??), so had no transportation to get here and complete his job.
But, all the time was telling me he would complete, and promise to show up so many times and never did. Even asked if I would rent him a truck to complete everything(NOT). I even tried to work with him where I would pick him up and bring him here, but NO.
So after many many many promises, and a deadline, I decided to fire him, and asked for a $900 refund(½ of what I had paid him, since he still did the demo work). Promises upon promises, nothing happened. Promises of paying back the $900, but that was to be by January 1, 2017, and now it is almost March. He does good work, and a personable person, even took him and his family fishing on my boat 3 times, so surprised he would do this to me. If he was honest and upheld his part of the contract (Of which we both were required to agree/sign on before work started) it might be OK, but I think his personal life and personal problems may ruin his business. This caused me probably an additional $1,000 plus a lot of extra work getting it finished, even myself laying the tile after I had someone else do concrete work. Beware.
DISPIRITO MASONRY & TILE Reviews
I have some good things to say about John DiSpirito, and bad things. We started out hiring him to retile a sunken bathtub in July 2016, took longer than we thought, but he did a excellent job and fixed a problem. With that in mind, we continued to hire him for a re-do of an outside fire pit/cool deck area, which started in October 2016. Was to take a week, 10 days, included some demo work, and new concrete pour and tiling a area for the moveable firepit. I purchased the tile, but everything else was to be contractor supplied, gave him a down payment and he started work. The demo was completed and he formed up the area, just awaiting a concrete pour, that is where it stopped. I had even loaned him some money so he could get insurance, paid deposit, and another payment. He had transportation issues, his truck broke down, then a rental truck he said that was recalled(??), so had no transportation to get here and complete his job.
But, all the time was telling me he would complete, and promise to show up so many times and never did. Even asked if I would rent him a truck to complete everything(NOT). I even tried to work with him where I would pick him up and bring him here, but NO.
So after many many many promises, and a deadline, I decided to fire him, and asked for a $900 refund(½ of what I had paid him, since he still did the demo work). Promises upon promises, nothing happened. Promises of paying back the $900, but that was to be by January 1, 2017, and now it is almost March. He does good work, and a personable person, even took him and his family fishing on my boat 3 times, so surprised he would do this to me. If he was honest and upheld his part of the contract (Of which we both were required to agree/sign on before work started) it might be OK, but I think his personal life and personal problems may ruin his business. This caused me probably an additional $1,000 plus a lot of extra work getting it finished, even myself laying the tile after I had someone else do concrete work. Beware.