Calm And Carry On Construction

My wife met Dave and Carolina as a fluke while at Lumber Liquidators shopping for hardwood floors for my three rooms upstairs and a new staircase. She just received a quote from another contractor and was at the store to pay off the balance of the flooring when she met them. Not only was their estimate lower than the previous contractor, they included items that were missed in the first quote. I have had many contractors work on my 107 year old home and they were some of the most professional and considerate that I have ever met. They came on time and always advised if they were running a couple of minutes late. They did not miss one day of work. They picked up moldings that I added on to the original job without question. I asked Dave about a door which had nothing to do with this job where the hinges didn’t align and needed wood putty and then sanded along the groves. The next day I was surprised to find it done for me for no additional cost. This was all new to me as I had many contractors that had pop up charges and came and went as they pleased. In the end, the staircase and floor came out spectacular and is testament to the pride and skill of their work. I am completely and totally satisfied, and would highly recommend them to anyone. I look forward to having them back again to install hardwood flooring on my living room floor.

We met Dave, the owner of Calm and Carry On, through Lumber Liquidators where we went to purchase a new hardwood floor for our Park Slope Brownstone kitchen. Dave came to the house to do the measurements and give us an estimate on installation. We had a previous estimate done by another contractor, which seemed to us excessive. Dave’s estimate was significantly lower and he struck us as very capable and honest. He did a fabulous job on installing the floor and, when done, it looked great.
We immediately hired him to install a tile backsplash in our kitchen and to repair a ceiling moulding in our dining room that had been damaged by a leak. Again, he did a fabulous job on the backsplash which looks terrific. The moulding on the ceiling turned out to be a very complicated job because it was not wood as we had thought, but rather injected plaster (which apparently was common a hundred years ago when our brownstone was built). Nonetheless, Dave spent nearly 8 hours piecing together and shaping several different pieces of wood moulding so that he could match the intricate shaping of our ceiling moulding. He clearly had not factored that into his estimate of the cost, yet he insisted on sticking to his estimated cost nonetheless, saying that he enjoyed the challenge. In the end, I insisted on compensating him for his time, but you don’t often come across a highly skilled tradesman who goes to such lengths without expecting to boost the price.
It was really a pleasure to meet Dave who is clearly such a profoundly decent guy, but also someone with real skill and a lot of pride in his work. I recommend him highly.