Business ProfileforBlankenship Concrete & Construction, LLC

**** Blankenship took advantage of my widowed grandmother. He was hired in late Dec. 2022 to paint a few rooms and do a small drywall job in a downstairs closet in her newly purchased home, before she moved in. He said he was starting his own company. He primarily did concrete but would take any side job. While giving the quote he said (due to the time constraint) that he would need to have at least one other person assist him so he included that in the price of the quote of around $5,000.00. During his time working at her house we never saw any other people there helping. It appeared he was staying overnight at her house to complete the work in time. The several times I came over to bring boxes for the move, he had his personal items on the kitchen counters. He did not have his own equipment, he went to **** ***** and called her to have her pay for everything (paint, brushes, tape, etc.) over the phone as he said his cards wouldn’t work and he couldn’t put it on a work account. Both of her credit card numbers were stolen the same day. He bought EIGHT gallons too many of paint that were never even opened. Each gallon costing $50-$60 that were never used. He does not know how to estimate paint amounts. He used painters tape on some of the edges, but painted over it and let it dry. When it was removed, there were large amounts of tape dried into the paint that we had to later remove. Also by letting the paint dry over the tape, it caused the edge paint to pull off the wall and he never went back to paint the edges. There was wall paint all over the ceilings, there were spots on the walls that were not gone over and the old paint was showing through. Paint splashed on the floors, and entire corners in the laundry room that hadn’t even seen a paintbrush. In the kitchen he used PACKING TAPE to edge the cabinets instead of painters tape. When he pulled it off it took off the finish on all of the cabinets down to the base. He tried to cover it by using a stain but that did not work. He just left the can of stain and told her it should fix it. I don’t think it’s necessary to comment on the drywall, it was terrible. He has been contacted numerous times about refunding even part of the labor money since we will now have to pay someone else to fix it. He finally agreed a few weeks ago that there would be a check in the mail for around $1600 for half of the labor. As of 01-31-23 no check has been received, although it was promised several times previously that it was on its way. He offered to come fix the damage but I feared him attempting to “fix” anything would make it worse. He also at one point had a post on this ******** page of the work he was doing at her house, but they were photos of rooms he wasn’t even hired to do and hadn’t touched, and most were from before he even started. He has now blocked me on ******** because I posted bad reviews and disabled my comments. He also told my boyfriend he would now not be paying my grandmother any restitution for the damage done to her cabinets and that we have to take him to court to get any money back.