*** UPDATE ***
The owner, Zach, sent me a txt message after reading my review and said he wanted to "help me with my issues" directly. I called him and he was very angry and proceeded to deny all of the problems that I found. I asked him what is the purpose of this call since I thought he wanted to help me with my issues. He then started yelling at me and told me that my review was harming his reputation. I asked him again how he plans to help me with my issues and then he proceeded to call me a liar several times so I hung up on him. He then started calling me again so I blocked his number. His comment on my review is 100% not true. I gave his company several chances to fix the issue and they wouldn't do it. ***
I hired this company a few years ago to do 2 home theater installations, 2 TV mounts, and ethernet wiring to a few rooms in the house. I spent a ton of money on labor and equipment from them and the work Zach did was very sloppy and substandard.
The first thing that went wrong was the bass speaker in the bigger home theater. It would intermittently make a buzzing sound and cut in and out. I looked at it and found that they used crimp connectors but didn't bother to actually crimp the connectors on, so the connector was loose on both ends. I had to buy a crimp tool and fix it myself.
Then some weeks later, the ethernet connections started to fail and go slower in some rooms. I bought an ethernet tester and found faults in several of the lines they ran. When I looked in the attic at the hidden wiring, I found that they cut all kinds of corners where ever I couldn't see what they did. I found things like wires cut and taped back together instead of using a proper wire splice. This shouldn't be done for any kind of wire, let alone high speed ethernet. I also found that they didn't follow any particular ethernet wiring standard, and had the wires done differently on each end in some cases.
Fast forward to 2020 and the receiver in the main home theater is shutting itself off every day and going into fault protection mode. Finally I decided to call them to bring them back onsite to check on this and the lady who answered the phone told me that the business is no longer owned by Zach and they now refer or subcontract everything.
She told me that she has heard many complaints about Zach's sloppy wiring work but was quick to tell me that she would not warranty any of the work because it had been too long since the original install, and also said that any wiring problems would have shown up right away and not over time (which is not true). But she said not to worry because Zach has learned a lot about wiring in the last few years and does a much better job now, but also that Zach doesn't do installs anymore and is only acting as a consultant!
She referred me to some other company that came out and charged me $149 and put some electrical tape around some frayed wires going into the receiver. The technician admitted that the wiring at the receiver end was sloppy and done wrong with the wrong type of speaker wire. He also said that at this point, the damage to the receiver may be permanent and I'd probably have to replace the receiver.
Whatever they did for $149 didn't fix anything as the sound started cutting out the very next day. I called them back and they told me to either send the receiver back to the manufacturer or get a new one. No mention of the $149 that I paid them for work which didn't fix anything. read more