A storm caused a large branch to fall on our roof earlier this year. The hole in the roof caused a leak through the drywall in the bedroom, so we had holes in the ceiling for months. We finally got this company to come out to repair it.
Everything was going great until an hour after the tradesman left on the second day he was here. I received an email from the company manager, CFO, and CEO. They claimed the tradesman had observed illegal drug substances in my home. The manager said that he would not be comfortable coming back and they would not allow it. I was told they had photographic evidence and I was threatened with a police report and legal action if I didn’t pay for the work that was done by the end of the day.
I don’t have illegal drug substances in my home. I felt violated because someone took pictures inside my home when I hired them for a repair in my bedroom. I promptly paid for the work that was done because even though I was extremely confused and felt horrible, some of the repair was done. The drywall still needed to be sanded and the ceiling needed to be painted. I was worried that I was being scammed or maybe they confused my house with someone else’s. I spent hours searching my bedroom for what he could have mistaken for drugs. When my partner came home, he stood on the bed frame and saw a palette with makeup powder sitting on my vanity. There was a powder puff and other makeup next to it. I was shocked that I was being accused of having drugs in my home because I left makeup powder on my vanity.
The same day, I sent them a picture of my makeup powder bottle and explained what I assumed had happened, because I wasn’t even sure if this was the cause of the confusion yet. After the weekend, I followed up because I had not received a response yet. Finally, the manager responded, only to double down that it didn’t look like “cosmetic projects” to them and they apologized if there was a “miscommunication”, but they still wouldn’t come back. After numerous back and forth emails, I sent videos of me pouring more powder out, putting the powder puff in, and a zoomed out picture of the vanity so the women I was emailing could understand the context that the repair man apparently could not. After refusing to concede that they could possibly be wrong in a couple more emails, they finally claimed they trusted my story and offered to have someone come back to finish the repair. Why would I invite someone into my home when they could see anything around it and jump to the worst conclusion? No matter what they respond to this review with, the way this was handled was very wrong.
For a woman-owned company, I suggest they hire more tradeswomen so maybe confusing makeup for drugs can be avoided in the future. If you’re going to hire this company, clean up anything that could possibly be misinterpreted as illegal because if not, you could be threatened with a police report, legal action, and left with a half complete repair.
Oh and if you write a negative review, they might add brand new accusations of powder on both nightstands instead of just the makeup powder. Considering this incident happened on the second day he was sanding my ceiling, I assume they are talking about drywall dust. Again, great company.