Highland Stone, Michael Padilla Untrustworthy, Crook and Rip-off Person! Denver Colorado

Michael Padilla is a complete rip-off who installed granite against our agreed design for our kitchen island and has made our island 3-6 inches smaller than our previous island. Our intent was to have a larger kitchen island with a kidney type of design. My husband and Michael drew this design together on paper. Michael changed our install date at the last minute so we were unable to take off work and be home during the installation, he assured us everything would be ok and there would not be a mess, etc. and he would call should anything come up.

I came home to find myself in a state of shock with the condition and look of my kitchen! The island was now a rectangle type of shape with a straight line but not not straight as there is a 3-6 nches width difference from one end to the next! (no curves like we designed and making it much smaller. The design was completely nothing like we requested or designed together and clearly looks like a piece of slab that was cut perhaps from a different job that was cut at an angle and not even straight. 

The counter installation was a complete disaster of a mess, leaving our entire home full of major dust and everything in all our cabinets were covered in soot!  He said no granite cutting would occur and it was evident that he cut everything in our home! This was the absolute worst mess I have ever seen. We have built two homes before and have done other remodels. This was a mess that I can’t explain!

Our walls behind the granite have several large gouges that will require repairing and not just paint due to the sloppy and careless work. There are some large gouges in our dark wood cabinets that cannot be repaired, also.(this home is only 12 months old)

We had also requested our stair banister toppers to be replaced with granite in addition to our window sil in the kitchen. Michael just glued pieces of granite on top of the wood banisters instead of removing the wood and replacing with the granite, as planned. The length of the granite is not the same length and we now have two pieces of material glued on top of something that is also approximately 3 inches longer than the wood underneath. He never installed the granite on our window sil. (Thank God)

 After numerous attempts to request that he fix the job per our agreement and design, he is unwilling to do so. He did apologize and agreed to fix the banisters but will not fix the island or repair the major damage he caused to our walls and cabinets. We are now forced to file a claim against this crook but unfortunately after reading the several other complaints about him and his other alias names and business, it may be a long shot getting our 50% money we already paid, and the work done correctly, per our agreement. I’m at a loss and in complete dis-satisfaction with how my new kitchen looks!

People like this NEED to be tagged and BANNED from being able to continue to rip-off hard working and honest people! I hope someday I can nail this creep and have him pay to have a qualified and honest person install granite correctly and per our design in my kitchen. BEWARE of this criminal!