Klem's Construction

Ian of Klem's started off as a nice guy but upon finishing day 1 of his drywall aka sheet rock work, it is clear he is not the contractor you want to depend on. He showed up without the most simplistic tool required, the razor knife aka utility knife which is needed to cut the sheets of new drywall. He texted me asking if he could borrow mine upon arrival... wow. I obviously was nice and agreed so we could hopefully start getting our new home back together from a recent water damage insurance claim that collapsed our living room ceiling and damaged the wall as well. That should have been our sign of concern. I left for 2 hours and came back and he was acting exhausted which triggered me to now help him hang my own new drywall for our celing panels. I literally held each of the three sheets for him and then watched him miss the screws to the joists about 30% of the time, adding additional holes he would have to spackle in the near future. His drywall sheet cuts and trimming gaps between the panels to our existing walls' drywall were massive, multiple points were 1-2 inches in width! We have photographs to prove this. Per my other different contractors who have reviewed the work for new quotes, advised they are too large for simply taping and mudding aka spackling them in. They said the work looked rushed and half-hazard. We had three other contractors recommend I stop his work and just tear his 5 sheets worth of work back down and start over since it was so early in the job. So he was only 5-6 hours on day 1 into this job. Ian Klementovic, the owner, initially agreed to go to his bank that weekend to get us our refund and has since delayed and added "attorney review" tactics before considering to refund if at all. This is now 2 weeks later and I have all of his communications documented on text messages to prove his crazy communications and constant changing of his mind and his thought processes. We initially offered that he keep $100 which more than covered the materials he started with and he could round up to $200 to be nice. However, the remainder of our job deposits should be returned so we can hire someone more skilled and would take more time to get us towards a better finished product. We are now filing in district court in the next 2 days since he had until today to get us our refund from the day of work 9/11/2021 and it's now 9/25/2021.