Client A
"He is an absolute angel..."
It is with much pleasure that I can recommend [Dermot and his team].
We bought and did a major renovation of an apartment in Paris.
We were in the fortunate position to be in Paris and interview 3 contractors that had been recommended to us. [Dermot] was one of the three.
What really impressed us from the start with [Dermot] was that he wouldn't hurry in making his estimate. He worked very hard on it with huge detail.
Being a builder by trade he also gave us confidence that he knew hands on what he was talking about. He offered fantastic suggestions for where we could save money as well, but also highlighted areas that couldn't be skimped on (we had to move the main power board).
It was an easy decision to make as he also had a fabulous reference from the owner of a business on the corner of our street who we physically met with. [Dermot] was often called in to finish off jobs for him because he could rely on him to give him a quality finish.
Accordingly we appointed [Dermot] and then flew back to New Zealand.
[Dermot] then started the demolition and it is fair to say that we had no nasty surprises apart from the parquet flooring in the master bedroom not going all the way across the room. [Dermot] gave us 3 good options with no pressure to spend huge amounts of money to rectify the problem. (He had warned us that this could be a problem).
He sent many photos while he worked on the project as well. I totally trusted him to choose our bathroom, and he did an outstanding job.
I think our project took 3 months to complete and half way through we visited and met all his workmen. They were all genuine and really good workmen and a delight to meet.
We did not have 1 complaint from our body corporate.
The project continued on time and on budget with not one nasty surprise.
We did have a very old, built-in library that [Dermot] had to shorten to fit the new layout. The trick was to make it look as though it had never been touched. [Dermot] picked up tools himself and finished it to an amazing standard.
When we moved in, [Dermot] was on hand again with his team to help me put up curtain rails , towel hooks etc.
He is an absolute angel.
I can thoroughly recommend him on all counts...budget, workmanship, reliability, honesty and integrity. In fact my husband and I plan to buy another apartment in Paris as we feel that we would love to work with [Dermot] again.
And on second thoughts when we do up our villa in the South of France I think we will relocate him down there!
Oh and I should tell you that 6 months later I dropped a glass soap container in our brand new shower and smashed the tiles. [Dermot] came around immediately and had it fixed (and you have now reminded me that he still hasn't invoiced us for that)…
Client B
"The quality of his work is perfect...