I hired contractor to start work first week of August to repair the back bathroom floor that was sinking, which adjoins the washroom. This was an insurance claim, and the previous contractor unknowing to us, never did the back bathroom floor, which was now sinking. Insurance company authorized us to find a contractor to fix the bathroom floor to include raising or removing the furnace next to bathroom floor to repair underneath that too. Contractor said it would take no more than 2 weeks, had a crew of 4. I had researched this contractor on 7-23-20 with L&I to confirm that he was a licensed and legitimate contractor. After more than 2 weeks went by and the work appeared to be never ending since the contractor only had one (1) worker who every came and worked, and the contractor himself never did any of the work. After paying the contractor over half of the insurance money, since it kept dragging out and the one worker was telling me he wasn't getting paid until they finished the job. I started to calling the contractor and asking why it was taking so long, and he kept telling me they were almost done, and would be done in a few more days. That did not happen. There were also multiple times when the contractor did not even show when not respond to my calls or text and his one worker finally quit too by the end of August 2020 (we found out later this worker had a heroine drug addiction, and even showed up one day and no one could get him to wake up and get out of his car to work). I had been working on deadlines for work for a couple of weeks, so could not easily go to the home and keep checking on the work the way I wanted to so asked my family. They said it seems like the guy is never going to get the job done, and they were starting to worry about some of the work that was being done when contractor had brought a second guy in and found out that he was not experienced in construction at all. In fact the contractor, instead of working, was giving instructions to the new guy on how to do everything all day long. I finally got really upset cause the contractor kept telling me they were almost done, but yet I did not see that, and when I showed up in person Wednesday, Sept 9th, I couldn't believe the kitchen floor, which he convinced both myself and the insurance company that he had to tear up part of and repair since it was originally done right. He had added plywood in the middle of the kitchen floor that was raised up nearly 1/4 inch higher than the rest. When I said something, he said don't worry we are going to putty it and fill it in. I was really concerned then but he promised me they would have it all nice and lay the vinyl for the bathroom, washroom and kitchen by Friday. I had to leave to get back to work. So I showed up Friday to meet the contractor and go through the home room by room to look closely at all the repairs with him and see how the vinyl looked. Only to show up and he was a no show. This had already happened multiple times, and he always had these major excuses which I believed for a while, but then finally felt like there was something majorly wrong and maybe the job would never get done. He had a tough time showing up, and only had one worker showing, said the rest quit just before he started my job. We agreed that I would pay him half up front and the rest when done, but after one of his workers called me 2 weeks into the job nearly crying because he hadn't been paid, I ended up giving the contractor more money so he could pay his worker. My stupidity. After 2 to 3 weeks into the job, the contractor kept finding more errors from the previous contractor two years earlier. who never fixed the bathroom sinking floor from a washer leak. The home is a disaster, and I told him he was done, and if he wanted to discuss to meet me at the residence. He never showed.