The month of December we had a tremendous amount of rain over the course of a few days. Due to this a leak in my ceiling was discovered in which I got on my roof to realize it was related to the chimney. Not wanting the ceiling to get worse I contacted John Green of JFGreen Renovations
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I had never before heard or dealt with this company. He told me he would give me an estimate. He did come out to give me an estimate stating my entire chimney needed to be rebuilt and he would do it for $2500. He then said he would have someone come and tarp it off so as to not cause more damage, he charged me $150 for this. The next morning they did tarp it off. The problem here was that they COVERED THE WRONG FLUE. This was discovered when a second individual came by a few hours later to give me another quote. He noticed the condensation on the tarp was heavy and when he cut it apart a huge amount of gas filled the air so much that I could smell it heavily from the ground. We had noticed a faint stench in the house that morning and all felt nauseous including my 5 year old daughter and 5 year old nephew. I turned and contacted John Green about this and he told me he would refund my money due to this problem. I figured I would be nice and let it go and just take the refund. I wound up missing two days of work because of this. I then never heard from John Green. I repeatedly called him and sent him emails. He continued to tell me he would pay me the money back using all kinds of excuses. I did end up getting the job done for a meer $500 which is 5 times less than what he wanted to do it for so I believe this man is a scammer. I have called him many times over since December and even sent him emails. I cannot believe that someone would not stand behind their work. Now, my feeling here is a matter of principle about this situation. I want to take action against him. Not meerly for the money, lost wages and the fact that 2, 5 year olds were sick due to this but for the sake of decency and doing business in a proper way. My repeated attempts at meerly attempting to get my money back when we could have all have died in this incident was in my opinion very easy on him.