I am not one to complain about services received, but we had a terrible experience with CertaPro Painters of St. Charles County and Wildwoodi. We explained our frustrations to the office manager, and she completely ignored them, so now I’m here.
We hired CertaPro to paint our basement, living room, half bath, kitchen, and upstairs hallway. At the time, we were not living in the house yet and we were told that the painter would be working on our house in between another job, which was fine with us. The first day of the job was 8/30, and the office manager told us that it would be complete by the end of the week of 9/4. That completion date came and went, the work was not complete. After asking our painter for an updated completion date, we were told 9/14. We got a message from the painter 9/18 that he was done and we should do a walk-though, note any areas that needed fixed, and then he would fix them and we could set up a time for him to give us the invoice and collect payment. We did the walk through and noted several areas that needed touched up and/or fixed and gave him that list on 9/19. He told us they would be complete by 9/22. That did not happen either, and we did not hear anything from him. I sent him another message on 9/27 telling him that we were moving in that weekend, and I asked for an update on when he would be done. He told me he would be there 9/29 during the day to do the touch ups. At 5:30pm on 9/29, he sent me a message asking for our garage code to get into the house to complete the work because he didn’t have the paperwork. He did complete the work that night, but we did not hear from him again about receiving the invoice, and I did not feel it was my job as the customer to reach out to him after he had been so non-communicative with us throughout the whole process.
On 10/4, I received an email from the office manager with our invoice and she called and left me a voicemail as well. I noticed that the invoice had a date of 9/13 on it, which was well before the work was complete. I was not able to listen to the voicemail from her until the evening, but when I did, she told me that she sent the invoice to us and was asking when they could expect payment because our painter had been "unable to collect payment from us." Honestly, this was infuriating because we had never received an invoice from the painter, he never even contacted us after completing the work, and now I found out he was implying we’d been avoiding payments for weeks because according to the invoice, he was done on 9/13. I sent her an email back letting her know I would call her the next day to take care of payment since it was after hours, and clarified the work wasn’t complete until 9/29 and we hadn’t received an invoice until she sent us one.
I called on 10/5 to find out how I needed to pay, but the person I spoke to was not the office manager with whom I had been communicating, so I did not want to explain our frustrations to her. Instead, I wrote the office manager another email to let her know that the check was in the mail and outlined our frustrating experience as well as requested a copy of our invoice showing paid in full when they received the check. I did receive a copy of the paid in full invoice, but she did not even acknowledge the fact that we were unhappy. I was not looking to get a discount or anything like that, but an apology would have been nice. It is unacceptable and unprofessional to accuse customers of not paying and then completely ignore them when they try to explain that is not at all what happened. We will not be using CertaPro ever again.