Burkina Electric

Do not hire Salaam Muhammad

DO NOT HIRE THIS COMPANY (Salaam Muhammadl)!! I requested an electrician on Home Advisor to fix various electrical issues that needed to be addressed to get my investment property ready for resale. Upon our intial conversation Salaam assured me that he could provided other services including demo, plumbing and framing.

Looking to take advantage of the benefits of using one contractor, we agreed for 12k worth of work to be completed. With 30% of that amount due upon start of work.

Once the initial deposit was paid and work started I was quickly informed that various other issues outside of the scope of work that we agreed to needed to be addressed; for an additional cost of course. This happened multiple times over the course of a month with the total amount contracted for raising to over $20,000!

To date none of the work contracted for has been completed. I paid Salaam over 15k worth of deposits for the additional work he said needed to be done. I am now spending all my time redoing the horrible and not up to code work he subcontracted out. In addition:

1.He did not follow the architectural plans created for the project.

2.He used inappropriate and substandard materials for the work he started.

3. He subcontracted day laborers, authorized incorrect work to be done and refused to pay them for work they completed.

4. He took the liberty to started additional work which was never discussed or agreed too, then promptly asked for payment.

5. He was consistently unaware of the status of the various projects he started because he failed to keep track of the subcontractors he hired and the work they were supposed to be doing.

I honestly debated writing this review, but the fact that I am currently redoing all the work he started which is costing me thousands of dollars and that fact that he did not return any of the deposits he took for work not done was too much to have someone else fall victim to this con-man.

If it's too good to be true, then it usually is. Lesson learned.

HORRIBLE AND EXPENSIVE experience overall.