Complaint: Tom Doran is the lowest kind of contractor out there. When you hear horror stories on TV and from friends about homeowners getting ripped off by home improvement contractors who take payment, make promises never to be heard of again, think Tom Doran and TD Construction. He is a one man show who I originally overpaid to do a small preliminary job painting kitchen cabinets. He did a decent enough job that I hired him again, this time to install an outdoor cellar door which leads down to a basement man door. As part of the signed contract dated April 2nd, 2012 that I have in my possession which includes Tom Doran’s signature, the agreement also called for waterproofing several glass block windows, reattaching ductwork in the basement and reattaching a rain gutter. All told I paid Tom Doran $1100 up front which in retrospect was the most foolish and stupid thing I have ever done with a so-called home improvement “professional””. It took over 2 months for him to reattach the gutter. He did not tie it back in to the drain pipe so the water literally pours out onto the concrete next to the foundation

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Address: creating more water problems which my exterminator later told me encouraged ants which I had to pay $297 to take care of. As for the bulk of the work and the most important part of the job

Website: there is not safety chain to keep it from opening and falling onto a small child or pet and the boards have already begun to warp and crack after being exposed to the weather for weeks. Tom Doran refuses to answer my phone calls

Phone: the doors. It is now July 23rd 2012 and the cellar door looks like it was built by 12 year olds attempting to build a fort in the woods. He promised to waterproof it with a rubber membrane. That never happened. Either he is too incompetent or he intentionally used the cheapest material possible (most likely the case) because he didn’t even use wolmanized lumber. As a result