Scott Plumbing, LLC

I don’t typically write reviews, but when I feel like I need to warn others away from crooks, I’ll sit down and write one. The review is a semi-detailed account of my experience, but the bottom line is at the end if you don’t want to read the whole thing. On the original call, the owner of the company came out to fix two toilets that I had running, and I assume he was training a new plumber. He claimed to fix both toilets, but he was lacking the parts on his truck and just “adjusted” one of them and said it was fixed, but it was not. Both of the toilets were still running, so called him back out because the work was under warranty. The same new plumber came out, by himself this time, and fixed them again. At the end of the job, he tried to collect payment. I told him this was a warranty call and I shouldn’t owe anything. He calls the owner, and the owner tells him to charge me for one toilet instead of two. His logic was that they didn’t work on the toilet that they just “adjusted” last time, since they didn’t have the part to replace it, and he claimed that I owed for that toilet. Here is where the math gets a bit fuzzy. The plumber was going to charge me $150 for both toilets without any warranty. With one under warranty, he was still trying to charge me $117, and the first time he charged me $135. So if two toilets in one call was $150, then why was he trying to charge me the $135 from the original call with an extra $117 from this one? Mind you, I didn’t agree to any extra work outside of the warranty work they were supposed to be doing. I told the plumber that I wasn’t going to pay because this is warrantied work and I don’t owe anything. He calls the owner back and the owner calls me on my cell and says I have 5 minutes to pay his plumber or he is going to call the Sheriffs department and report me for theft of services, then just hangs up on me. He wouldn’t even entertain the idea of going over his math for what he was expecting me to pay. At this point, I decided to call the Sheriffs department myself, because I didn’t do anything wrong. About an hour later, two deputies show up and get both of our stories. Since this is a civil matter, they couldn’t really do anything, but they both agreed with me that the plumber should have given me some form of statement of work before starting new work. At the end of the day, I ended up paying $100 because the owner was adamant about filing a theft of service report against me, and it wasn’t worth anymore of my time to deal with this idiot. His plumber was there for 3 hours for less than a 1 hour job, so at least I got some justice of wasting his time and costing him business for his shady dealings; additionally, I hope this review will serve as a warning and help people find an honest plumber instead of this crook that cares more about being right than taking care of his customers. Bottom Line: At the end of the day, the owner of this company would rather waste 3 hours of time for him, me, his plumber, and two deputies than honor a $100 warranty claim for his work. Not to mention the other customers that were scheduled for later that day. Stay away from this company.