Business ProfileforTim's Custom Painting

***’s Custom Painting broke our contract for exterior painting services, and refuses to provide reasonable refund. In February 2022, Contractor provided an outline of services and products would be included in his work, and provided a lump sum bid of $10,000 for work es***ated to begin May or June 2022– we paid $3,333 at the ***e of contract signing. On July 5 Contractor dropped off equipment, and began work July 11, 2022. He prepped brick (minor scraping, pressure washing, caulk, and applying most of primer) and began to prep wood trim on f***t porch. Less than a week after receiving a 2nd draw of $3,333 (on 7/15/2022), He told us that the weather was just too hot to continue exterior painting. During that ***e, *** was on job weekdays only, and had one day lost to rain, and another day missed because of “weather too hot.” He actually worked on our job by himself for approximately six half days. When he packed up his ladders on 7/21/2022, he promised us that he would be back to finish the job September 1st, 2022. He further stated that, if he did not come back, he “…would give us our money back”. After several delays, *** called us on 9/16/22 indicating that he thought he would not be able to finish the job, and a week later, he texted that he definitely would not be able to complete the work. We requested full refund of monies paid ($6,666) because he broke the contract, and any work he did will need to be redone by a new contractor. *** refused to fully refund, and returned only $1,666 on 9/26/2022. We took that partial refund, but told him this amount is not satisfactory—his abandonment of our job has cost us a year delay, and any work he did will all need to be redone. He refuses to return the $5,000 in remaining funds that we paid (equal to half of the original contract amount), but we feel by breaking our contract and leaving us in the lurch for the job, he does not deserve to keep our money.