Arcadia Construction Enterprise

Austin, I'm warning you....do not HIRE....I have to take Joshua Pams to court. He does not know what he is doing. I have to hire someone to fix all his mistakes, with the short list of items he completed. I don't know where you can post pictures, but I will gladly post. This construction company has been my worst construction nightmare. My cabinets that he painted....are chipping after a couple of days (and our kitchen isn't even being used as it's under construction). They look terrible when you feel and look close. He did not sand the lacquer off of my solid wood doors and the paint is not adhering to my once smooth cabinets, they now feel like sand paper! In fact, the sanding technique was not used at all. I have had several professional paint contractors that explained what was done wrong, but Joshua believes in his chipping cabinets, and says he can touch that up in minutes. Honestly, it's only going to get worse. I now have to buy new doors as it would cost me more to fix and strip the work he has done. When needing to modify a cabinet his idea was to take one of my existing cabinets, cut in half, and put back together to resize. That is his cabinetry skills/ideas? He asked me if I understood, and I did. In horror, I couldn't believe this was the solution from a guy who came to my house to profess to be an expert meticulous cabinet maker and could match my cabinets perfectly to get my business.

He has only done less than 50% of the demo, and left 1/2 that demo trash in my garage. My husband and I had to finish the demo. He never put the hardware on the cabinets. He had some sub contractor paint my cabinets and wanted his 3rd payment. That was almost three weeks ago. I had to contact him after a couple of weeks and to ask him when he was going to come back and finish the rest of the job. He left with holes in my house, no handles on my cabinets, and list of things to finish before countertops were going to be installed. He came by later that week, and covered some of the holes in the wall, left and said he'd be back. He never returned and after a long text to him on that Sunday with my frustrations, he called me immediately to terminate our relationship, it just wasn't working out, and told me he would give me any monies owed. I told him to work on that short list of items he completed with pricing. That was extremely agreeable with me, as I didn't want him to ruin anything else in my house. He comes to my house with no list, but a lawyer, who introduces himself as someone who works with Arcadia Construction. This lawyer tells me I need to let Josh finish the work thats in the contract before I can complain about his work. One day I hope I will I find that funny as it's taken a month to demo or half demo, move a couple of cabinets, and paint/ruin them. I have also given Joshua a chance to defend himself and tell me if my list of work that he's done and the problems with them are not valid. Crickets. This is just a short list of my problems with Arcadia Construction, this guy has lied, apologized, overpromised and under delivered. I read a review that said (I read after I hired him) if you hire him be prepared to get a lawyer.....yep. Yes, I'm livid, and understandably so if you saw the work in my kitchen, the heart of my home. I paid Joshua over $10K and got nothing but problems. So, I am going to take the time to warn others, I don't want anyone to go through what I'm going through. I have pictures, witnesses and documentation of my experience. He is a affable guy, fun to probably have a beer with, but I strongly warn against hiring him.