THE WORST! I am traumatized after the experience I had with this contractor! He had no online presence when I hired him to remodel my bathroom in November of 2021. My "remodel" was "completed" May 2022. And I am still dealing with the repercussions of his awful work today. Most recently the cartridge he installed started leaking. He gave me an old assembly after saying his supplier, build.com, never sent him the one he ordered for me. The one I spent hours picking out. We had wanted a separate nozzle mounted lower in the shower- through the wall-for dog washing. (Not like a hose that attaches to the shower head.) He never re-did the plumbing to accomodate this so he was not planning on doing it all along. The handle in the shower was not centered. My sink was not centered. The P-trap was never relocated to sit under the sink. It had to be macguivered to drain properly. The tile work is crooked. The grout lines are as wide as my big toe in places. The shower pan was leaking immediately. So much so that mushrooms started to grow out of 2 different areas a few months later. Water barrier was not used on the walls behind the tiles. During demolition the support beams were damaged. I paid an inspector come to check underneath twice for damage and leaks. Both were present. The subfloor should have been replaced & was not. The toilet fixture was cracked by the workers while trying to install it. I had to get a whole new one. They mounted the seat crooked. The faucet was loose & shaky after 2 weeks. His incompetent workers broke all of my beautiful slate tiles, when I complained they were not laid flat. They chiseled the edge of each one to get them semi-flush. I later had another bathroom done with the exact same tile & grout & the results are night & day. Grout was cracking 2 weeks after they left. Missing grout. Paint on my tiles. I was talking to him daily about things that were not right. he had an excuse for everything. Sometimes his workers would only come 1 day each week. ZERO STARS! read more

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Do not use Paul from Grapevine Remolding, he does not pay his subcontractors. The subcontractors can then lien your home. He did this to us!!!!! read more

I wish I could add zero stars to this. I wish these review were up 2 years ago because I would not have hired him. he is a scam artist that steals money from people. he was hired to build our deck and other people who did not k ow what they were doing built it. it's falling apart smudge will have to be replaced again. it was over $20,000 of work. he always had excuses. his health or his dad. he is a liar and a thief. Do not use his company. He. blames everyone else. He blamed Ultradeck when the specs were done wrong. I have filed a complaint with Better Business Bureau and am going to look into filing charges against him for theft and fraud. read more

The owner, Paul Ritsch is a scam artist. Took over $70,000 of my money and did not pay the subs. his work and subs were so bad, that I sub contracted the whole job myself. Hes a charming fellow like most scam artists are. tole my City of Lake Forest Permit Bond refund, didnt pay the drywaller who now wants to put a lien on my home, and bounced a check to Marvin Windows. He owes me $12,000 for work never done, and at least $11,000 to these two subs that he never paid or bounced checks to. Very bad person who I believe has now moved to Florida, am going to the police to file a contractor fraud case against. His work was aweful as well, the few subs that did whow up were the worst of the worst. This was a scam from day one. Nightmare. read more

DO NOT HIRE PAUL RISTICH / GRAPEVINE REMODELING. We hired Paul Ristich of Grapevine Remodeling to replace an exterior door along with vestibule and lighting updates. We pre-paid Paul on March 25th, 2022 50% of the cost for the project. Over the course of months we were met with delays outside our control and Paul's from city approval. *August 15th we notified Paul that due to all the delay's we would be cancelling the project. We asked Paul to be reimbursed on the down payment *September 20th asked Paul again for reimbursement *Multiple times in October we reached out via text, email, and phone calls to get status on reimbursement...Oct 14,18,19 just to list a few. Paul replied 19th saying he will resolve asap *October 21st we asked Paul to get reimbursement since we did not hear back, Paul stated that he would contact his accountant *At this time it is now November and we still do not have our refund, Paul continues to let us know he will check with his accountant, but never a confirmation on refund status. We simply asked to verify that accountant sent refund or for Paul himself to just provide refund and Paul seems to not be able to answer these questions nor. One confusing part is that during all this time Paul changes communication methods or correspondence types like starting new email threads, texting using an email that is not connected to other emails we sent, or texting from phone. He changes methods quite often. In short we just wanted our payment for work not done to be reimbursed but Paul has not been interested it seems to have the good business practice or ethic. Paul stole from us!!! read more

We hired Paul to do partial remodel of two bathrooms. We signed a contract in March to be started the last week of June. No such luck. Started some demo work in mid June. Vanities were ordered in March, came in late June....one was totally wrong. Had to start again. Had a tub redone with a new color. Work was carefully done but Paul did not pay them until we hounded him to do so. He always had an excuse and NEVER his fault. Quartz was picked out in early July, he never measured until late August. When the countertops were delivered, one was cut wrong. Of course it wasn't Paul's fault. Many items we picked out were never in stock when he went to pick them up. He substituted what he thought was a good substitution. I had Paul call me everyday to let me know what he was doing that day. He had the painter come before anything was ready. The medicine cabinets were originally installed outside instead of inside the wall as we directed from the beginning. The new toilet was installed incorrectly on the seal. Consequently we had a water leak into the garage. These are just a few things done poorly. The entire job, ( we were told 6 days from the beginning), was not completed until mid OCTOBER! NEVER HIRE PAUL RISTICH at GRAPEVINE REMODELING. HE IS A CROOK! read more

If I could give zero stars I would. The owner Paul Ristich is the role model for a scam artist. Everything seemed fine at first, then no work was getting done. He needed additional money for a plumber that did not do any work, we now believe there never was a plumber. All the plumbing had to be redone because of a leak, as Paul did the work his self and used chalk around a drain to seal it. Paul signed a contract for a sub-contractor to complete the tile work, he did not pay him so we are stuck paying the sub-contractor so the work will get done. He constantly made excuses; the work was supposed to be completed by 6/5 and it is not. He originally showed me an order from a home improvement store, then this week when pressing him where the materials were, he said he ordered from the other large home improvement store. I called 5 area stores and none had any orders under his or the business name. Three times he said he was in the hospital, now he is using his mother in the hospital as an excuse, but from google searches, it appears his parents live in Florida. Mind you Paul knew that this remodel job was for my elderly parents, my mom is also disabled, yet he had no problem taking their money and making them temporarily homeless as they are closing on the sale of their home and the condo is not going to be ready to live in since there are no functioning bathrooms. HE IS A DESPICABLE PERSON AND I PRAY THAT KARMA COMES BACK AT HIM WITH AVEGEANCE. read more

Hiring Paul Ristich at Grapevine Remodeling was one of the worst decisions I ever made. I agreed to hire him because he said my project was "easy" and should be done in 2.5 weeks. We gave him a deposit and he said 2 more payments would be required. About 2 days into the project he asked for the 2nd payment when the only thing that had been done so far was demolition. First red flag; for him to have 75% of the money with no visible progress. Cut to 8 weeks later and the job was still not even close to being finished, and the work that had been done was incredibly sloppy. He sent us subcontractors that were only showing up for between 2-4 hours a day, and some days no one showed up at all. The subcontractors also claimed that Paul was not paying them. Paul gave us daily repeated excuses and lies as to why things weren't getting done and never did one bit of the work himself, even after saying he had 35 years of experience. There was never any quality control - he never checked any of the work being done to make sure it was correct. On Sept. 19, 2022, his subcontractor took all of the equipment and said he wasn't coming back because he wasn't getting paid. Paul said he had no other workers to send us, so I had no choice but to fire Paul on Sept. 20, 2022. Basically he abandoned our project and ran off with our money. A true con artist who left us with an absolute mess to deal with. I had to hire someone else to complete the job, and luckily found a wonderful, qualified contractor who was able to finish the project in just 5 DAYS. Apparently 5 days is all it takes when people show up as promised and work full days! The new contractor had to redo 80% of the work done by Paul's inept subcontractors - there were so many issues to fix that I can't even list them all. Foremost the plumbing had to be completely redone, and tiles were uneven and not glued properly to the walls and were falling off! This project caused us incredible stress and frustration, plus additional unexpected costs. We put our faith in Paul to complete this project and he didn't fulfill his commitments, not even close. I want to make sure he never does this to anyone else. Please don't make the same mistake we did and look elsewhere for your remodeling needs! I fully regret hiring Grapevine Remodeling and legal action is most likely in our future to recoup the money that was stolen from us. read more