Around the Home Handyman Services

This company is NOT Recommended. While promoting a BBB rating of A on various sites, their actual rating is a B.
On a personal note, I can appreciate people can’t work for free these days. It’s tough — but any company who offers a one-​year guarantee for their work should not be charging for problems with existing work (new work, yes — but work that they originally did? Absolutely not).
We have used Around the Home handyman services, owned by Norm Richter (also listed as Norman Richter) for two separate pieces of work: roofing and flooring. The roofing job was done extremely well and on budget. After the flooring work, we will never use them again.
The flooring job was a mixed bag. We were originally quoted about $ 1600 for a kitchen and mudroom renovation. Since we were paying by the hour, it was expected to go higher. The final tally was over $ 3000. Originally expected to take 3 – 4 days, it was over a week. Time was ADDED to the bill that was never received until we forced the issue as noted below.
The initial tiling looked great — but had some problems that were evident 3 days after the job was completed. This is where the problems began.
There was a crack in one of the tiles and several holes in grout around the floor. The biggest problem however is the supposed one year guarantee. FOUR months after we initially called and reported the problem, Norm finally came around to fix things, saw and reviewed the problems with the tiles and grout. The next day, they only fixed the tile (and replaced another) but did not correct the grout problems, blaming us. Keep in mind this was FOUR months after we tried to get them to come in.
Subsequent follow-​ups was that he couldn’t do the work for free (even though it was part of the original work) and that we should have used an insurance company’s tilers to fix the grout that was caused by his work. He then subsequently blamed our floor.
I wish they had told us up front that they could NOT do the job properly.
Needless to say, I would NOT recommend them for any flooring work