M Acierno Construction

In the interest of accuracy, more things we’ve discovered that Mike and his crew did wrong:
Air conditioners: we had a company come take out the AC units to store them, and they informed us that they had been installed dangerously.
When the new contractor took out the bathroom saddle to fix it, he found that the grout used for it was the wrong kind.
I’ll keep you updated on more errors as we find them.

He was quick to respond to our first email and came over and gave us an estimate. He was professional and had good ideas for our renovation. His price was competitive to other contractors we interviewed. We choose him due to his fair price and his likable personality.
He gave us a time frame of about 2 – 3 weeks for our basement. However the project lasted over 6 months and there are still uncompleted parts. We have stopped asking him to finish the basement after multiple attempts at trying to find a day his crew could come over.
The other big issue was the lack of continuous work. At the most we had some one working in our basement 2 days out the week. The other days there would be no one there. we constantly had to call/​email/​text Mike that we have not had anyone in our basement for a few days. He would always send someone the next day, but that would not carry on to the following days. Our project lasted 6 months mostly because we had true work being completed maybe ten percent of the time.
There was problems with the workmanship. We had a gas leak. Our doors were uneven after they had to be cut down to fit the frame The molding on the floor has cracks from where one piece was attempted to be connected to another. The grout in the bathroom had spread onto the tiles and we are still trying to remove it without damaging the tiles. We had our boiler put into a closet, but found out later that it was covered up to the point that it cannot be serviced. the sink in the bathroom drains poorly. Our new contractor informed us that the wiring in the ceiling is not up to code. Both our front and back doors are poorly sealed and we are regularly having to kill bugs that crawl in through the gaps. when he felt the project was complete we still had a large amount of building material that sat in our backyard and was too much to put on the curb for pickup.
He is a smooth talker and at times dishonest. as one example, Mike told us that our tile was bought and picked up but then when we went to the store to purchase other tiles we found out he never bought the other tiles and had not picked them up.
He is a nice guy, pleasant to talk to and for this reason we actually held off on writing a review knowing that it might hurt his business. That changed recently when one of the cabinets that was installed, came off the wall crashing down on certain items and breaking multiple things. This turned out to be the straw that broke the back.
There were some things that we did love about the project and those are the drains that we have. He placed a larger drain in both front and back and they were done to our satisfaction. We later found out that his expertise is in masonry and not interior work which explained a lot about the rest of the project.
Overall I am displeased with his workmanship and I would not recommend his service to anyone.

I found Mike and his team through word-​of-​mouth to do the kitchen and bathroom of my mom’s co-​op. Apparently, he’s very good at what he does and so he’s quite popular. This made it hard to get him to schedule us in at a timely manner, but that was our only complaint.
However, now that the job is done we are so happy we waited. One time one of his crew laid down a few tiles irregularly. You had to be told where to look in order to notice the mistake but before we could even say anything to him, mom got a call from Mike asking her for the number to the tile guy. He took money out of his pocket to rectify the handful of tiles without a word.
He also has good vision. Mom has good ideas, but with Mike he made them better. Check out the pictures.
So if you have time and can be patient with his scheduling, Mike is worth it.

Overall we were pleased with Mike and his team. Mike is very communicative – available by phone or text or email pretty quickly. He overall does good quality work, and is trustworthy and wants to do a good job.
We did run into some issues with timing… his team wouldn’t show up when we expected them, and overall they worked on our place about 3 days each week. This would have been fine if we could have known this up front, but we were disappointed with the amount of time. It also felt like sometimes more thought could have gone into what would make us, the customers and ones living there, most comfortable vs. what would be easiest for his crew to do.
Mike re-​sanded our floors, repainted our entire apartment, and completely remodeled the kitchen. We were given an estimate of about 6 weeks, and it took bout 9 weeks. We felt safe leaving him alone in our apartment during the day, and if we felt upset about something we could call.
So if you’re trying to save a little money, Mike is a good choice. If you have more funds, I would go with a bigger operation that would have the manpower to complete the job in time.

We hired Mike in February 2011 to renovate our 525 sf one bedroom place on the 5^th floor in a Park Slope walk up brownstone. From day one when I contacted him, he was personable, professional, courteous and extremely responsive. All key qualities that are VERY hard to find in a contractor. He was able to come and see our place to provide a free estimate very quickly and provided a proposal that evening. He was excellent about providing various prices for various scenarios and we ended up hiring him to take care of everything. His price was EXTREMELY fair. During the construction process Mike was great about making any changes or modifications we decided upon and got them taken care of immediately. He was also very careful not to open up a can of worms, being that the building is over 100 years old. Other contractors would have taken that opportunity to tell us we had to do certain things just so they could make an extra buck. Not Mike. Even any upgrades we decided on later were very fairly priced. MIKE AND HIS CREW WERE GREAT! Hard workers, very professional and trustworthy. Also, you can call him, text him or e-​mail him and he will get back to you immediately or at least within 30 minutes. No lie! He also got the job done a few days quicker than he originally anticipated. What, am I really talking about a contractor? Shockingly, yes!
Extent of work: full kitchen renovation as well as bathroom renovation. We kept the tub and he had it re-​glazed. Patch and repaint entire apartment. Replace all doors and added some new with 6 panel solid pine doors. Added a mantle over the fireplace, added shelves in the living room, added some lighting and moved some outlets. HIRE MIKE! YOU WILL BE HAPPY YOU DID!