We made the awful mistake to hire PUBLIC PLUMBING to waterproof our basement in January 18th 2012 and we were totally ripped off and left to solve the problem by ourselves, which we hired them to fix in the first place. The job was suppose to cost $3, 250 and it ended up costing us about $4.000 plus $2,000 for a sub plumb that, as it turns out, we did not even need and was rather precautionary and so far useless and unsightly. BEWARE!!!!! We noticed when they were done, that the job had not been completed to where the man said it would. We figured that they had diagnosed the problem and that it was not necessary to go any further. It was such a hassle to communicate with them anyways and the guy Boris was so full of himself and dismissive, plus the bill kept pilling up, we just wanted them out of here. This is July, and it took calling several times to get them to look at their crappy job, and guess what? They didn’t own up to it. The Boris guy no longer works for them, they say. I got the red flag when Boris was not even around while the work was getting done and every time we asked a question to the workers (whom did not speak English) they had to call him and wait for him to translate… I’m not kidding! The arrogant man that came to give us the estimate pointed out with his hand up to were the work was going to be done and we trusted what he said. Well as it turn out, the “approx” measurements that he wrote in the contract were less than the area he had pointed out to us, and since we did not go around with a measuring tape to make sure every inch was accounted for in the contract, we got screwed! If you have these people in your house, RUN with your measuring tape and check, don’t trust what they say. After nearly $6,000 we still have a moldy basement, an ugly-useless sub plumb and they still want another $1200 to finish the job they said (but did not specifically write) they would do… “We do it right the first time” is their claim…NO NO! They won’t do it right the first time…they won’t even rectify it.
