Mike's Fine Home Remodeling

This contractor is a crook! I hired Mike Calzaretta to do a large full house remodel on August 1st. His license is through this ex-wife Jill Calzaretta. The whole project was supposed to be $103,000. I gave him $25,000 upfront to cover me through rough in. He kept asking me for more money the whole time. He gave me two change orders and I then paid him another $13,000. Total paid was $38,000. Now I find out my whole project has to be ripped out and done over. Now it's costing my twice as much. This whole time he never even pulled the necessary permits. He had hired an engineer that he made me pay for as well $1200 so he would know what was needed to support the house when I removed two large walls. He never even did it the way the engineer said to. The beams are supposed to be in the ceiling and they are all hanging below the ceiling. He installed them how he wanted not the safe way or to standard building codes. He installed new windows and doors without headers and no base jack supports. Not to building standards. He repaired a wall that was rotten and never even installed a bottom plate. He just nailed the wall stud to the floor . He hired an unlicensed plumber and then did most of the work himself which is all wrong and won't hold even hold air pressure. There are pipes cut hanging everywhere, unsupported, and below the ceiling. Then the electrical is just as bad. Cut wires taped and shoved up in the ceiling. Junction boxes that will not be assessable when the insulation goes in. The electrician drilled through the new LVL's and ran wire through them. Completely against NC building codes. There are rafters almost cut in half. Sheeting on the outside of the house missing and he just house wrapped over. He left big spots everywhere that doesn't have either and the rain is coming in. This whole time I kept pointing out issues with the job. He then started saying I'm not coming back to your project until I get another $10,000. There hasn't even been $38,000 worth of work done and no inspections, no permits. During this whole project I had a small one going on in SC so I asked him to help me with that so I could get it done. I had to install a new shower, kitchen cabinets, countertop, trim molding and flooring for a rental home. The shower he put in the walls were not installed right. He never pressure tested it and water leaked everywhere from the shower valve. I had to have the countertop, cabinets and flooring removed to repair the shower valve. When we did that I found out he never even put drywall behind the cabinets. The kitchen cabinets were installed wrong, laminate countertop was installed wrong and coming apart. The LVL flooring has small pcs of wood under it everywhere so it has to be taken up. Molding has huge gaps in it. Missing drywall. I had given him $6100.00 towards that project before I realized all the issues. Both jobs I supplied all the materials for so that was a lot of money. Both jobs he left huge piles of trash everywhere. I decided to have some other contractors look at the job. It was worse then I realized. I'm very disappointed as a single mom struggling to try and better my kids and my life doing some house flipping. This is a disaster. I've asked for my money back and he laughed at me and said he is putting a lien on both of my houses for more money. This guy needs to out of business. He is even a terrible handy man certainly not a licensed GC contractor.