Nargis J

Dustin Permall (H20 Construction) is a CONMAN, defrauded us for R200 000

Dustin Permall (H20 Construction) contacted us via the Dial-A-Contractor network, and so we assumed that all the necessary checks and references were done on him and his company. Fast forward almost a year later, and meeting Dustin turned out to be the biggest financial mistake my husband and I would make in our lives. Dustin does not care about his clients, or the fact that many take out 2nd bonds to finance their renovations. He will steal your money, while you are indebted to the bank for the next 20 years. We were expecting our 3rd child, and dependent on having our home ready in time. Dustin had 9 months to deliver on his promise, but this never materialized. We have lost hundreds of thousands to this conman, and all he has done to date is demolish parts of our house. So while we needed an extra room for the baby, we ended up having our house destroyed. BEWARE, this guy is a professional white collar criminal. These are some facts we uncovered during our build, after speaking to other clients and ex-employees: - Dustin lies about multi million rand projects successfully completed by H20, and how he has never been late. This is the furthest thing from the truth, as one of his ex-employees told me that they had been kicked off 5 projects this year alone due to non delivery - Dustin will under quote, in order to win a tender and get you to sign a contract. However, he WILL NOT be able to deliver on this. After stealing 35% of your money as a deposit, your project will grind to a halt until you cancel the contract. Thats an easy R350 000 for every R1 000 000 project. - Dustin will talk about a finance director in Nigeria, his account departments, and legal team. These are ALL lies, he is a one man show and just uses these fictitious characters to make his business seem big. He sometimes will refer to these made up people to put pressure on clients (his finance director is waiting for payment, or we will pay the supplier its currently with our accounts department for processing) - Dustin will hound you for large deposits, while your plans are at council. This allows him to blame council for delays on your project, and take your money and use it for himself - Half of Dustin's laborers walked out on him, because he never paid them. Then he gets in new staff (which also eventually leaves when he stops paying them). This as a serious impact on the continuity of your project. On our project, the architect left after 2 months, and then the entire build team and site foreman a month later. What makes matter's worst, is that someone else has to fix this mess; and we have to somehow find the money after already losing over R200 000 to Dustin Permall (H20 Construction)