Bohdan Kaminski

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• Anonymous

  February 26, 2016

  We worked with Kaminski when he was working with Greg Moon as owners of a design/build company called Images Inc.. Our experience was not good.

  As designers, both men lacked feel for what we wanted, imagination, and could be rushed and rude. The fees for their design work were high.

  We went on, though, and used their company as our contractor feeling rushed ourselves, inexperienced with large remodeling jobs, and hoping--foolishly--that our relationship with them would improve. We were coping at the time with a death in the family, working, busy, and did not want to delay getting our job done more than it already had been. And the firm had come to us well-recommended.

  Unfortunately, our relationship with these two men did not improve.

  About half-way through our job--which was a 6-month long job that necessitated moving our family out of our home while under construction--we become aware that problems were developing. The first sign (other than when I noticed, at the very start of construction, that the foundation was not being put in properly!) was when Images insisted on wall painting at a time when painting is not done, while construction was still going on. I managed to stop this in time, and ended up, down the road when painting is usually done, getting a good painter in on our own.

  Then problem after problem followed--floor sanding was rushed, more decisions were turned over to us, as owners, that rightfully were contractor issues, bricks could not be located that matched our old ones until we found a good match, ceiling tiles for the lower room were hastily chosen and not what we wanted (better quality and sound-resistant), the exterior brick work was rushed and done sloppily in areas, debris and garbage were left in the attic, the roofing was not done properly in areas (discovered, and fixed, later), and so on and on.

  I ended up doing a number of small design aspects to the work (and I have no background in the design!). I designed our window trim, which is striking and clean. And I and my husband designed our new fireplace, which is the same. We located and found the tile for it.

  In short, we become 'assistant contractors', overseeing all aspects of the job, and addressing multiple problems and issues that should not have been ours, and researching and finding solutions to them. Complaints and meetings did not help. Moon was easier to work with, and did seem to acknowledge that real issues with management had developed. Kaminski was high-handed, uncooperative, and difficult.

  We became aware that Images Inc had taken on an extensive renovation job of a mansion not far from our area. Then everything began to make sense--the company was overwhelmed, unable, we believed, to meet the demands of both our job and the other one, and our job, being smaller, was being short-changed.

  In the end, we finally had to go to court with Images to settle what we thought they owed us, and they thought we owed them.

  We ended up with a house much nicer than it had been before, and better suited to our needs. But this happened only after an extremely stressful, expensive, and time and energy-consuming effort that was, in the end, successful only because we stepped in and basically took over managing the work. We felt ripped-off, and taken advantage of. Kaminski (and Moon) had come to us, as mentioned above, well-recommended, and Kaminski even lived in our area, his kids attending our kids' school.

  Remodeled is a huge effort, one that involves tremendous trust, expense, time, and effort. When it goes well, it is still a trial. When it goes poorly, it is a nightmare.

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