RW Harlow Associates Inc

Moved to Cape Charles in early 2025. Hired Ron Harlow to complete my kitchen. Complete disaster and poor craftsmanship. Have to hire someone else to go back and complete his mistakes. Go somewhere else

UPDATE....you know exactly who I am and you say that about every bad review when you do bad work. Not legitimate excuse. Caused me 1000s of dollars to replace cabinets. Speaking the truth. People should stay faaaaaarrrrr away from your services!!!

Hired Ron Harlow in June 2024 to install a bunch of interior and exterior doors, build a front porch, install a sliding glass window, install 2 exhaust fans and fix a bathroom ceiling. It took 3 weeks to semi complete after he gave a 1 week finishing time frame. Did complete crap work and going to have to spend 2k-3k to fix his mistakes. He installed the steps on the porch very poor quality and now they're not flesh with concrete (see picture). The railing is not even screwed the whole way down since it didn't install the baluster correctly (see picture). Also a few other minor time-consuming fixes on the porch. Next, he installed a sliding glass door and half assed finished it. Didn't do the trim outside or inside and looks awful (see pictures). All he was wanting was more money to actually complete the job correctly when it took him 3 weeks to get to this point after saying it would take a week.

At the end I just wanted him to leave and would have someone else complete it CORRECTLY. His guy Henry was caught sitting on couch during the day when my tenants were at work. The couch would have a lot of drywall dust on it after coming home from work. Was wondering why barely any work was getting done. Ron said he was putting 6 to 8 hours a day into the house, but my neighbor has a camera directly on my house from across the street and he was there consistently 5 hours a day. Also, the deal we had was for me to buy supplies and pay him for the skilled labor he provided. I come to find out he took the 2nd soffit vent for the exhaust fan he was supposed to install. Drywall screws I bought that I know he didn't use them all. 2000 trim nails I bought which he might have used 500.

I could keep going on and on about things he either didn't do or did at a very poor quality. I just wanted him gone. All and all this were an awful experience and hope nobody else makes the same mistake!

*****UPDATE*****....see pictures building my porch and putting posts directly on ground and not a slab of concrete. Post will rot out in less then 5 years if i am lucky. I am npt even a contractor and i know this. Have to hire a comentent person to fix this if it can even be fixed.

No dispute between me and my renters. Please come up with a better story to justify this awful experience and crappy work. They were watching my back when it came to you. Dont make stuff up to make stuff up. You were sending you grandson out with Henry( employee got caught sitting on couch all day when no work was getting done) to complete work. Was never there more thwn 5 hours and have pictures to prove that. I was out of town but would come down every weekend to check it out. By week 3 i wanted you gone no matter the case. Almost everything you touched needs to be fixed properly and it should not be like that.

Nobody was trying to buy my house and whatever youre trying to say. Just cause you say they're lies doesnt mean that is true. The material just disapeared i guess then. Did crap work and are an unethical contractor. People need to stay away from you.

Ron Harlow did an outstanding job on our home. He and his team installed additional pilings under our deck for extra support and replaced water-damaged flooring with great care and precision. Ron is dependable, meticulous, and truly committed to doing the job right—even if it requires extra effort on his part. His craftsmanship and attention to detail are evident in every aspect of his work. We couldn't be happier with the results and highly recommend him.