Chad Sikorski CMS Home Improvements LLC ,Sikorski Mechanical Scammed me out of six hundred dollars. Installed a whole house water filter that is too small for my home and doesn't do what I needed. Trenton New Jersey

He installed a water filter in our home at our request. I contacted Chad about installing a whole-house water filter that we planned to get from Home Depot. I have known Chad for a loing time, and I know he has a checkered past, but he has adopted this good-dad, I’m a great guy sad-sack routine which he does now pretty convincingly. His poor kid must be so embarrassed of him, or he will once he realizes what kind of person he is. 

Chad talked us out of buying the system at Home Depot because they “are not the same quality he can get” at his “contractor supply store”. Chad said that you had to be a contractor to go to this store, they get preferred pricing, and better quality materials than we could get in retail stores.

We gave him the money to go to the supply store and buy the materials to do the job. Chad gave us an invoice for six (6) filters at $42 each and various materials and supplies. Only 2 filters were in stock, the remaining 4 needed to be shipped to us the next day. When the remaining 4 filters were delivered the next day there was a receipt included (which stated all over it “DO NOT LEAVE PAPERWORK”), we discovered the 6 filters that Chad bought were only $8 each. And worse, they do not do anything we clearly told Chad we wanted this system for. We could have handled being overcharged if we at least got what we asked for.

We wanted this system to purify the water coming into our house so we had clean water at all sources. We were willing to pay for this, we made this clear to Chad and he assured us several times this is what we were getting. What he gave is a $40 filter and casing (not a water purification system), that isn’t the right size for our home and doesn’t do anything to clean water, and there is nothing we can buy to make it work the way we want it to. Chad knew this all along.

I went to the “exclusive” supply store – that, newsflash, anyone can go to and make a purchase – and spoke to the manager, who verified all of this, including that Chad bought and arranged for shipment of the $8 filters on his first trip to the supply house. He was planning all along to stick us with near-worthless filters instead of the expensive ones that allegedly would work to clean our water.

I know now that Chad intended to scam us from the moment I contacted him. He has developed a reputation for this that we were not aware of prior to this, but you can use the link below to see other complaints. Since I vented about this on social media I have heard several other stories including some which are way worse than ours. There are other details we are leaving out because this story is long enough, but there are so many opportunities that Chad had to tell the truth and still make money. Hell, we were going to refer him to several other people that also wanted water filters installed. But, he chose to fabricate stories.

We have known Chad for many years and, while we knew he doesn't have a perfect reputation, we did not think he would do this to us. We thought this was a really straightforward job and that it was safe to work with him without a contract. Lesson learned, don't learn it yourself the hard way.

Please do not hire this person for anything. He operates under CMS Home Improvements LLC, Sikorski Mechanical, and other names – he has to keep changing the name of his company to duck people he has scammed. I have also heard that he has had issues with the NJ Department of Consumer Affairs. 

While we are annoyed and do not like what happened, we can at least wake up every day and feel good about the fact that we are not like Chad.

Screw you Chad!